Supply Chain Strategic Planning Manager

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Dole is one of the world's largest producers and marketers of high-quality fresh fruits, with a growing line of quality packaged and frozen foods. Dole's dedication to quality is a commitment solidly backed by: comprehensive programs for food safety, scientific crop protection programs, stringent quality control measures, state-of-the-art production and transportation technologies, continuous improvement through research and innovation, and dedication to the safety of their employees, communities and the environment.

Job Purpose

As Manager, Supply Chain Strategic Planning you will be part of a team that oversees Global Supply Chain Planning - matching production and shipments from our manufacturing facilities in Thailand, Philippines and Co-pack locations with demand from markets in US, Canada, Europe, NAMETCAR and Asia.

In this role, you will be responsible for supporting Sales and Operations Planning process, and facilitating the Demand/Supply reconciliations and aligning the final plans with management through Executive S&OP. This role will report to Sr. Manager, SC Strategic Planning based in Bangkok and requires close collaboration with Supply Chain leadership team in markets and source locations and is a high visibility role that will be working with Sr. Leadership of F&BG.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

1. Support Global Sourcing Strategy for new innovations and represent planning during the entire stage of New Product Launch.
2. 3PM Planning: Strengthen and lead 3PM Planning for F&BG (primarily for Packaged business)
3. Work with SC Leadership team to co-ordinate implementation of SC Strategy focused on Delivering our EHS Promise, Innovation and Portfolio Transformation, Leading Edge Operations excellence, Customer Centricity and Supply Chain Digitalization
4. Supporting projects related to improvement of Supply Chain Planning performance such as Portfolio simplification via SKU rationalization, Formulation Harmonization, MOQ alignments.
5. Support projects driving SC Risk and Resilience strategy such as Building appropriate Inventory and Capacity plans, Multi sourcing of unique Raw materials, Network diversification etc.
6. Support Periodic Sales and Operations Planning process by assisting in Demand Review with markets, facilitate supply review with source locations (Factories, 3PMs, Procurement), Category reviews to check supply availability and sourcing mix to meet demand and final DSR reviews with SC team and markets.
7. Long Term Planning Work with markets to consolidate long term demand and sources on supply and use this to drive strategic planning decisions on sourcing decisions, capacity requirements, warehouse planning etc.

Required Skills/Qualifications

1. Bachelor's degree in supply chain management with minimum 10+ years experience in Supply Chain Planning in a large MNC with manufacturing background.
2. Experience in an FMCG multinational and/or consumer packaged foods industry will be an advantage.
3. Requires strong leadership skills and ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams across multiple geographies.
4. Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English are required.
5. Self-motivated, results-focused and thrives in an organization which is in a significant digital transformation journey with steep learning curve.
6. Flexible to travel (approximately 20% 30%), to operations sites with focus on Thailand and Philippines.