• Own market supply and inventory planning for finished products, including product availability, inventory strategy, stock optimization, and replenishment to origin warehouses based on demand insights.
• Manage the supply chain interface between market teams and upstream plants and enterprise supply teams, ensuring timely and cost-effective supply while proactively minimizing shortage risks.
• Manage stock policy and shelf-life requirements to achieve service targets and reduce product waste; maintain accurate supply parameters and master data in SAP, OMP, and other planning systems.
• Lead demand consolidation and variance validation for international markets, monthly production regrouping decisions across make-to-order and make-to-stock products, and weekly supply sufficiency analysis and execution.
• Represent markets in weekly supply and operations execution meetings with plants; identify and escalate supply gaps, exceptions, and operational challenges to enable timely resolution.
• Analyze planning data, validate system-driven activities and outputs, run supply segmentation models, and provide feedback to improve segmentation standards and planning effectiveness.
• Build strong partnerships with regional supply Centers of Excellence, concurrent supply planners, deployment and replenishment teams, finite planners, inventory analysts, customer service, logistics, and other global stakeholders; provide analytical support and triage planning alerts.
• Own make-to-order and make-to-stock metric analysis and publication; identify automation and in-process measurement opportunities, strengthen governance, conduct loss analysis, support exports planning, and improve ways of working through service-level agreements.