VP of Global Supply Planning
helenoftroy

Job Info

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Join our Logistics & Distribution Team at Helen of Troy as our VP of Global Supply Planning (hybrid work onsite and from home), and make an immediate impact on our trusted brands, including our 9 leadership brands: OXO, Hydro Flask, Osprey, Honeywell , PUR , Braun , Vicks , Hot Tools , Drybar . Together, we build innovative and useful products that elevate people's lives everywhere every day!

Look around your home, and you'll find us everywhere:

In your kitchen, living room, bedroom, and bathroom. We are already making your everyday lives better. We are powered by knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and forward-thinking people committed to developing a culture of inclusion. Whether you are just starting your career or in need of a challenge, we recognize, develop, and empower talent!

This position can be based in any of our Corporate Offices in El Paso, TX, Dallas, TX, Irvine, CA, New York City, NY, Marlborough, MA, Memphis, TN, or Bend, OR.

What you'll be doing:

The VP of Global Supply Planning will develop and drive strategy to centralize the supply planning function for Helen of Troy as we transition our Supply and Demand Planning platform from Oracle R12 to Blue Yonder's Luminate integrated supply and demand planning.

• Work closely with the VP of Demand planning, the Blue Yonder system architect, the business unit-based teams of supply planners, and our logistics resources in Asia pacific to craft the future process, hierarchy, and team to fully optimize the Luminate supply planning platform
  
• Post-implementation, coach and lead the centralized supply planning team toward actively managing optimal stock levels, developing and handling inventory KPIs, and driving system and process improvements throughout the SIOP process
  
• Optimize the process for global inventory planning, which balances customer service expectations with optimized inventory levels and ensures supply capacity is in place to support
  
• Partner closely with cross-functional leaders and teams to ensure that the buy plans are aligned with the demand to achieve maximum inventory efficiency
  
• A key contributor to the SIOP processes in all Regions and will align closely with the functional leaders and executive team to address demand and supply risks, proactively address capacity or flow concerns, and make recommendations based on collaborative and fact-based data supported by root cause analysis
  
• Partner with our Macau-based logistics team to optimize finished goods flow from suppliers through our global multi-node network
  

Skills needed to be successful in this role:

Strategic Development

• Develop the central supply planning function around the Blue Yonder tools to deliver optimized working capital investment while meeting service level expectations
  
• Support the development of an optimized, global informed SIOP process that rolls up from each Regional Market and culminates in an executive-level supply plan approval
  
• Develop a communication cadence and a set of metrics to measure performance against inventory, delivery, and forecasting targets. Lead corrective action implementation in those areas where performance is not meeting expectations
  

Inventory

• Develop supply plans to support customer service expectations, and provide visibility of working capital impacts required to deliver upon commitments
  
• Build a process to continually balance and optimize inventory levels across a global multi-nodal network
  
• Forecast and manage inventory levels across all global sites to ensure supply plans meet financial objectives
  

Supply Planning

• In conjunction with Helen of Troy's sourcing organization, deploy a standard set of supplier metrics that manage our supplier delivery performance
  
• Build the supply plan, highlighting any gaps or excess production that needs to be adjusted within the SIOP process
  
• Lead supply review meetings within the SIOP process, providing an overview of capacity against demand, highlighting supply chain planning performance metrics, and making recommendations on key challenges and decisions that need to be made to run the business effectively
  

Additional Skills:

• Experience in building impactful teams with the ability to create the foundation for the future in a rapidly changing environment
  
• Excellent influencing skills; confident, robust, and happy expressing one's opinion
  
• Ability to communicate and Present at the C-Suite level.
  
• Outstanding project management and organizational skills with demonstrable experience leading complex, large-scale, global change projects
  
• Excellent troubleshooting skills to drive solutions cross-functionally
  
• High attention to detail, be data-driven and fact-based
  

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
  
• 14+ years of validated experience and 10+ years of leadership experience
  
• 8+ years of experience specifically leading global planning resources supporting multiple markets
  
• Extensive leadership experience in global planning within the Consumer Goods Industry with capacity planning and process improvement
  
• Deep expertise in designing and leading SIOP processes within global multi-node environments
  
• Ability to travel 40-60% Internationally
  
• Strategic vision and business savvy balanced with strong operational integrated supply chain experience that can effectively create and implement a strategic vision to ensure excellence in a global marketplace
  
• Successful track record of leading cross-functional teams within a global matrixed environment
  
• Deep experience with implementing and operating demand sensing, multi-echelon, AI integrated planning tools
  
• Authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis
  

Wondering if you should apply? Helen of Troy welcomes people as diverse as our brands. Have the confidence to come as who you are because your point of view, skills, and experience will make us stronger. If you're eager to share new ideas and try new things, we want to hear from you.

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For more information about Helen of Troy, visit www.helenoftroy.com . You can also find us on LinkedIn , Glassdoor , Facebook , Instagram and Twitter .

Helen of Troy is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to developing a diverse workforce and cultivating an inclusive environment. We value diversity and believe that we are strengthened by the differences in our experiences, thinking, culture and background. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or any protected basis.

We will provide individuals with disabilities reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application process. If you would like to request an accommodation, please contact Human Resources at (915) 225-8000.

Incorporated in1968,Helen of Troy has grown into a leadingglobal consumer products company with career opportunities in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. We offer creative solutions for our customers through a diversified portfolio of well-recognized and widely trusted brands, including OXO®, Hydro Flask®, Osprey®, Honeywell®, PUR®, Braun®, Vicks®, Hot Tools®, Drybar®. Most of these brands rank #1 or #2 in their respective categories.

We boldly bring brands into our family, where we nurture what makes them great.We collaborate internally and externally, always striving to provide the consumer-centricinnovation, operational excellence, scale, global reach, and stellar shared services tomake them soar.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties required of personnel so classified. Management retains the right to add or to change duties of the position at any time.

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