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Job Overview

The Director of Business Planning is responsible for developing, leading, and continually improving the company’s Sales & Inventory Operations Planning process. This role ensures cross‑functional alignment between Sales, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, and Procurement to create an integrated plan that optimizes capacity, minimizes inventory risk, and supports customer service goals. The Director of SIOP will establish the governance, cadence, analytics, and tools necessary to support accurate forecasting, scenario planning, and long‑range business planning in a manufacturing environment.

This role contributes to annual and strategic planning and direction setting for the planning and purchasing teams. They will report to the PPE President.

Key Accountabilities

SIOP Strategy & Leadership

• Develop and implement a comprehensive SIOP strategy aligned with business unit goals.
• Establish a formal governance structure to ensure consistency, discipline, and accountability across all functional teams.
• Determining methods to address and correct any demand and supply planning group behaviours that adversely affect S&OP KPIs.
• Drive continuous improvement of SIOP tools, processes, and KPIs.

Demand Planning & Forecasting

• Oversee the demand planning function and ensure the development of an accurate, data‑driven forecast.
• Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and Product teams to incorporate market intelligence, customer insights, and promotional activity.
• Identify forecast risks, opportunities, and assumptions for leadership review.

Supply & Capacity Planning

• Partner with Operations to ensure production capacity, labor planning, and material availability support the demand plan.
• Work with Procurement to assess supplier capabilities, lead times, and constraints.
• Lead scenario planning exercises to proactively manage potential disruptions.

Inventory Optimization

• Maintain inventory strategies that balance customer service levels with working capital objectives.
• Establish policies for safety stock, lead times, and replenishment across the network.
• Monitor KPIs such as inventory turns, slow‑moving inventory, and forecast accuracy.

Cross‑Functional Collaboration

• Serve as the primary facilitator ensuring alignment between Sales, Finance, and Operations.
• Partner with Finance to reconcile demand, capacity, and inventory plans with financial projections (AOP, LRP).
• Drive accountability for SIOP metrics across all functional owners.

Data, Analytics & Systems

• Champion the use of advanced planning tools to improve forecasting and planning accuracy.
• Lead the creation of dashboards, scorecards, and analytics to support decision making.
• Evaluate new technologies and digital tools that enhance SIOP performance.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

ESSENTIAL

• Excellent understanding of technology tools that enable demand and supply planning and reporting (JDE preferred)
• Ability to use technology tools that facilitate collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
• Business and commercial acumen and knowledge of finance, sales, marketing, manufacturing, logistics and procurement functions
• Strong numeracy and analytical skills with the ability to translate data into high-level analysis.
• 5 -10 years of experience in demand/ supply/ inventory role
• Experience of Integrated business planning, best practice, & successful implementation
• Experience with Microsoft suite and reporting tools like PowerBI
• Understanding of end-to-end planning and supply chain management
• Experience in using and improving systems (SAP ERP)
• Proven people and line management experience
• Knowledge of processes in sales, marketing operations, finance, and manufacturing.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects at once.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve KPIs like plan accuracy improvement, process adherence, stock turns, return on investment and project completion.

DESIRABLE

• Strong communication skills with ability to pivot messages and data to different levels of the organisation.
• Ability to build collaborative relationships across the end-to-end supply chain (from commercial through distribution)
• Ability to take data and tell a compelling story that drive understanding and decisions.
• The ability to translate business goals and metrics into business process outcomes and related business cases for specific projects.
• The ability to understand and present data in a meaningful way to varying stakeholders.
• Focuses on both short-term results and long-term goals.

Travel

Travel will be required within the responsible network when required (UK/US) and on a Global basis when traveling with the senior leadership team.

Are you ready to join a different kind of company where our people, our culture, and our commitments are centered around providing trusted solutions that improve lives around the world?

IDEX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IDEX gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration or protected category made unlawful by federal, state or local laws.

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