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Dawn Foods is a global leader in bakery manufacturing and ingredients distribution. As the partner of choice for inspiring bakery success, we helpcustomers grow their business through meaningful partnerships, research-driven insights and innovations, and products and expertise they can depend on. As a family-owned company, our commitments to our people, products, customers, and corporate values, are all part of our recipe for success.
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Why work for Dawn Foods?
PEOPLE. PRODUCTS. CUSTOMERS.
Why should you apply? We invest in you!
Industry-leading health insurance on Day 1!
Competitive Pay
401(K) + company match
10 Paid Company Holidays
Paid Time Off
Professional training
A family-owned business with over 100 years of service
An opportunity for career advancement, working as part of an empowering workforce.
Job Purpose and Overview
Dawn Foods is seeking a Senior Director of Planning Integrated Bussiness Planning (IBP) to join the Supply Chain organization. We are looking for individuals who are experienced supply chain leaders and are strong in supply chain planning and SIOP deployment.
The position will be fully remote but will be required to travel to our Home Office in Jackson, Michigan, or various locations approximately 30%, and will report into the Senior Vice President, Supply Chain & Procurement.
What will you do as aSenior Director of Planning IBPat Dawn Foods?
The Senior Director of Planning IBP will be responsible for helping manage and balance both supply and demand strategies across all businesses and facilities within the Dawn Foods network. This person will manage centralized supply and demand planning managers and will mentor and assist Dawn's Team Members to ensure they are capable and enabled, our processes are clearly defined and executed, and our tools are optimized and fully integrated. This person will also be responsible and accountable for the deployment of our integrated business processes, including Sales Inventory & Operations Planning (SIOP) and Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE). The successful candidate will be expected to do the following:
Develops, implements, and sustains continuous improvement in Dawn Foods' practice of a robust monthly Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning cycle. Partners with Finance in leading the evolution of these core processes toward a full practice of Integrated Business Planning (IBP) for Dawn North America.
Set up proper SIOP design leveraging people, processes, and technology that can be scaled as the portfolio grows and lead the roadmap and deployment of the initiative. Develops long-term strategies to establish and maintain a robust supply chain and enact appropriate risk mitigation procedures and strategies.
Champions and leads change management across all key stakeholders to ensure collaboration and commitment to new ways of working leveraging data-driven, fact-based processes and fully integrated technology solutions.
Defines, directs, and champions annual and monthly Demand Forecasting process, including deep commercial collaboration. Measures forecast error (MAPE) and collaborates at multiple levels of the commercial organization to drive continuous improvement and improve accuracy.
Leads monthly demand consensus process to align commercial, financial, and operational plans, ensuring that Dawn's plans for top-line performance are fully aligned with the delivery of profit plan.
Directs the development of annual and monthly Supply Network Plans to ensure optimal sourcing of production requirements, optimizing manufacturing performance, external / co-manufacturing supply, and minimizing intercompany replenishment cost. Responsible for annual Intercompany Replenishment budget of $20 Million.
Responsible for strategic capacity planning, ensuring that Dawn supply strategies are fully aligned with new product development and commercial growth initiatives. Directs planning of capacity requirements over a 3-5-year planning horizon.
Responsible for execution of full Product Lifecycle Management, including portfolio / SKU optimization and inventory obsolescence.
Partners with Manufacturing Operations, Distribution & Engineering to ensure optimal capital investment to reduce total delivered cost while maximizing manufacturing capability and expertise.
Through Supply Planning Managers, directs plant scheduling activities and Materials Requirements Planning, ensuring the optimization of manufacturing strategies, changeover costs, working capital investment/inventory strategies, and customer service requirements. Responsible for On-Time, Full Delivery to Customers (OTIF) and Inventory Working Capital.
Responsible for optimized procurement strategies and utilization of technology to minimize working capital investment in Dawn's buy-sell portfolio while ensuring all OTIF objectives are achieved.
Partners with Dawn Procurement Organization to ensure strategic supplier commitment to reduce lead time and ensure product supply and pricing to minimize working capital investment while delivering on Dawn's service promise to our customers. Partners with Dawn Procurement to manage supplier performance through the development and use of supplier scorecards and standardized business reviews.
Drives continuous improvement initiatives including collaboration with Commercial, Distribution, and Manufacturing peers across North America.
Directs and leads budgeting assumptions for production, contract manufacturing, DRP, and purchasing, ensuring that financial KPIs are met or exceeded.
Participates as a member of the Supply Chain & Distribution Leadership Team. Ensure team... For full info follow application link.
An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability
