Senior Manager, Integrated Planning

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What you will do

Planning is one of the critical foundational pillars identified by Kenvue Supply Chain strategy that is essential to building the world’s best supply chain. Planning forms a pivotal role in the synchronization of our E2E Supply Chain to meet our customer demands efficiently and effectively as well as improving our cashflow through optimizing our working Capital. At the same time, we need to ensure that we are anticipating future trends and disrupters and building capabilities to leverage and take advantage of these being agile enough to ensure we adapt and use this as a competitive advantage.

As a member of the North America Global Plan Excellence (GPEx) team, the Senior Manager, Integrated Planning Business Process Owner leads the end -to-end Demand and Supply Planning Process transformation across North America Planning Organization. The Supply & Demand BPO Owns the regional business processes governance, partner with Global Process Owner, Tech and Data team to design and deploy advanced planning capabilities and drive organizational change, adoption and continuous improvement aligned with Global Planning maturity strategy. The BPO has the responsibility to grow and sustain End to end planning capabilities in United States and Canada ensuring adherence to the business needs and core fundamental processes. The BPO will also lead the strategic NA Planning People, Process and Data readiness governing and collaborating with NA Operations leadership team ( Plan, Make, Deliver, Procurement and Quality) introduction of new processes or tools, to improve current practices or to induce breakthrough changes on end-to-end management activities. Lastly the Supply & Demand BPO will facilitate the deployment and support stabilization of our new advanced planning system solution securing technical reliability while driving the change management agenda within the North America Supply & Demand planning community.

• Lead future-state process design and harmonization.

• Translate business requirements into scalable planning capabilities.

• Partner with IT and implementation partners on SAP, S/4HANA and Kinaxis solution design.

• Lead business testing (BST/UAT), deployment readiness, hypercare and stabilization.

• Develop and execute change management, communications, training and adoption strategies.

• Influence senior stakeholders and lead cross-functional governance.

• Monitor KPIs, benefits realization and planning maturity.

• Defines and leads initiatives aiming at enhancing execution of foundational processes whilst reinforcing adherence to standard ways of working

• Facilitates and delivers training on new processes and new system functionalities

• Strong leader and able to partner and influence the broad NA End to End Operations community while fostering collaboration with Global Planning and Tech & Data organization.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA/Master's preferred

• A minimum of 8 years in Supply Chain Planning or business related field

• Experience in Demand Planning, Supply Planning and IBP.

• Experience implementing advanced planning systems. Kinaxis preferred.

• Ability to travel up to 10% domestically and internationally

Preferred Qualifications:

• Change Management and program leadership and Agile experience preferred

• Deep process and systems knowledge of Demand Planning, IBP and Planning Transformation program management

• Expertise in SAP ERP; SAP APO/S4HANA desirable and Advanced planning system, Kinaxis Rapid Response / Maestro preferred.

• Experience of running governance processes to make decisions on extensions to the Global Template 

• Strong business acumen & understanding of business dynamics incl knowledge of P&L set up within Consumer business.

• Proactive thinker with ability to see the big picture but being able to debate the details.

• Ability to influence at all levels within the Supply Chain, Commercial, Finance & other key cross functional partners, in a matrix environment and externally.

• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication.

• Change Management expertise to drive organizational readiness for Plan transformation and new capabilities successful implementation and adoption.

• Leadership without authority, facilitation and coaching.

• Lean Continuous Improvement mindset.

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What’s in it for you

This takes into account a number of factors including work location, the candidate’s skills, experience, education level & other job-related factors.

Kenvue is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment based on merit without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.