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Director, Supply Planning Operations

Chicago, Illinois, United States

fairlife, LLC is a Chicago-based nutrition company that creates great-tasting, nutrition-rich and dairy products to nourish consumers.

With nearly $3B in annual retail sales, fairlife’s portfolio of delicious, lactose-free, real dairy products includes: fairlife® ultra-filtered milk; Core Power® High Protein Shakes, a sports nutrition drink to support post-workout recovery; fairlife® nutrition plan™, a nutrition shake to support the journey to better health.

A wholly owned subsidiary of The Coca-Cola company, fairlife, LLC has been recognized by both Fast Company and Nielsen for its industry leading innovation.

To learn more about fairlife and its complete line of products, please visit fairlife.com.

job purpose: The Director, Supply Planning Operations is a key leader of the Supply Chain Planning team, leading the end-to-end supply planning functional teams across fairlife’s supply network. This role is directly responsible for leading functional areas from supply planning, production scheduling, milk planning, to materials planning teams in all our production facilities as well as the supply planning needs of co-manufacturing operations. This role will work cross functionally with key members of operations, warehousing, transportation, demand planning, network supply planning, customer service, finance, and commercial teams in order to ensure the strategic priorities of the business are met and executed. This role will drive value by ensuring the planning team develops an efficient and optimal production schedule/plan built to ensure target customer service levels are met and exceeded.

 

responsibilities:

  • Lead the supply planning teams at the fairlife production facilities and co-manufacturing sites across our supply chain operation inclusive of production planning, milk planning, inventory deployment planning, and raw materials planning functions.
  • Own plant capacity reviews, supply reviews and support cross-functional S&OP and S&OE processes.
  • Mentor and develop a team of planning managers and supply planners, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, ownership, partnership, and curiosity.
  • Direct and oversee the execution of supply chain planning strategies to meet business and operational objectives, ensuring inventory levels and costs are maintained to target.
  • Partner with Demand Planning, Customer Service and Distribution Planning to align production schedules to customer orders, allocation targets, and forecasted demand.
  • Own end-to-end supply planning for all co-manufacturing facilities within the fairlife network, provide guidance on production plans, deployment strategy, and drive accountability for production schedule attainment and quality adherence.
  • Identify continuous improvement opportunities across supply planning processes to reduce waste, improve efficiency, and uphold best-in-class planning principles.
  • Partner with Operations Leadership to ensure plans our conducive to production efficiency, operating capabilities and are aligned to our supply chain and operations strategy.
  • Coordinate and lead weekly/monthly alignment meetings between the planning team, transportation, warehousing, operations, and customer service.
  • Drive continual improvements of current tools, processes, and reporting, including owning and developing new tools to drive fairlife’s extraordinary growth.
  • Refine information systems configurations/settings to drive a more integrated supply planning and material resource management system.
  • Work with planning team members to ensure plans are in sync across all plants – act as backup in key areas for team members as required.
  • Demonstrate value through leadership, detailed and innovative approach along with proactive communications.
  • Demonstrate critical thinking and sound judgment in all situations.

 

skills/qualifications required:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in related field required
  • 5-7 years of relevant experience required.
  • 3-5 yeas of progression in leadership / people management required.
  • Skilled in organizing resources and establishing priorities
  • Experience leading supply chain planning teams across multiple locations.
  • Experience mentoring individuals and building teams.
  • Strong analytical skills and attention to detail required
  • Strong Microsoft Office (Excel, Access) skills
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies in a diverse community.
  • Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
  • Ability to handle ambiguity and work in a fast paced, entrepreneurial environment
  • Programming (SQL/Python) and Data Visualization (PowerBI) strongly preferred
  • Network Design experience preferred but not required
  • Dynamics 365 experience preferred but not required
  • Anaplan experience a plus

position location: Chicago, IL

reports to: Sr. Director, End to End Planning

travel requirements: Up to 60%

fairlife, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. All qualified applicants and employees will be given equal opportunity. Selection decisions are based on job-related factors.

In addition to its nondiscrimination commitment, the Company will also provide reasonable accommodation of qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the Company. If you have a disability and would like to request accommodation in order to apply for a position with us, please email careers@fairlife.com.

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