Senior Manager, Long-Term PlanningActive$111K

The Senior Manager, Long-Term Planning will serve as the architect of our future-state planning for the North America (NA) market, comprising our US and CA businesses. Reporting into the Director, Strategic Planning, you will be responsible for implementing a structured,…

What they're looking for

• Resolve Strategic Risks: Act as the primary cross-functional liaison to identify and resolve long-range constraints. You will translate the "how" of planning into the "so what" for the P&L, quantifying impacts on inventory, cost, and service levels.
• Champion Process Standardization: Partner with global Planning counterparts to understand successful operating models and adapt best practices for NA, fostering a unified North American planning culture.
• Establish Key Performance Indicators: Define and track success metrics for long-term planning accuracy, including inventory health, capacity utilization, and forecast stability, establishing a performance-driven culture.
• Support planning Tooling Strategy (Build vs. Buy): Help define detailed business requirements, participate in evaluation of external vendors versus internal builds, and draft the business case to move the NA planning function away from manual Google Sheets toward an integrated, automated Planning System.