Supply Planning Transformation Specialist

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary Supply Planning Transformation resource for assigned manufacturing sites.
• Partner with manufacturing, supply chain, operations, quality, procurement, and commercial teams throughout each deployment.
• Assess current planning processes and identify opportunities to improve consistency and alignment with future-state operating models.
• Support implementation of standardized supply planning processes and planning system enhancements.
• Facilitate planning workshops, readiness assessments, and stakeholder meetings throughout deployment activities.
• Deliver training and provide ongoing coaching to planners and site teams to ensure successful adoption of new processes.
• Drive operational readiness activities, issue resolution, and transition support during go-live and hypercare phases.
• Cook up project timelines, action items, risks, and deliverables across multiple cross-functional stakeholders.
• Monitor adoption, capture lessons learned, and support continuous improvement initiatives following implementation.
• Travel to manufacturing sites approximately one week per month to support deployment activities.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in Supply Planning, Manufacturing Planning, Production Planning, S&OP, IBP, or Manufacturing Supply Chain.
• Experience supporting manufacturing operations within pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, or other highly regulated manufacturing environments.
• Experience using SAP within a supply chain planning or manufacturing environment.
• Strong project coordination skills with experience leading cross-functional initiatives and managing multiple priorities.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders and drive organizational adoption.
• Comfortable delivering training, facilitating workshops, and supporting operational change.
• Willingness to travel approximately 15–35%.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting supply chain transformation, planning process improvements, or planning system implementations.
• Exposure to SAP IBP, SAP APO, Blue Yonder, JDA, Infor, Kinaxis, or other Advanced Planning Systems (APS).
• Experience supporting Integrated Business Planning (IBP), Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), Master Production Scheduling (MPS), or Capacity Planning.
• Change Management experience or certification.
• Lean Six Sigma certification or Continuous Improvement background.
• Experience supporting multiple manufacturing sites or contract manufacturing organizations.