Supply Chain Planning Leader
About the Job
Role Title: Supply Chain Planning Leader
Compensation: Competitive base salary + annual incentive
Location: Dallas, TX
The Opportunity
We're partnering exclusively with a large, global manufacturing organization to hire a senior leader who will own enterprise planning and demand generation at scale. The business is entering a period of sustained growth and investment, creating a need to fundamentally modernize how demand, supply, inventory, and manufacturing capacity are planned and connected.
This is a rare opportunity to step into a highly influential role where planning is treated as a strategic capability, not a back-office function. You'll act as the enterprise owner for planning—defining the vision, shaping the systems, and driving execution across a complex, global footprint.
If you are motivated by scale, transformation, and real operational impact, this role offers the chance to shape how an entire organization plans, builds, and grows.
About the Role
The organization is looking for a senior planning leader who can operate across two equally important dimensions. The first is enterprise planning ownership: demand planning, inventory optimization, supply planning enablement, and manufacturing capacity planning. The second is transformation leadership: modernizing planning processes, platforms, data, and ways of working.
This is not a purely strategic or people-management role. You'll be expected to remain technically fluent, challenge system and architecture decisions, and stay close to execution. You will lead through a "leader of leaders" model while setting the technical and analytical direction for planning across the enterprise.
You'll partner deeply with manufacturing, supply chain, finance, and technology teams to ensure demand signals are actionable, realistic, and aligned with what can actually be produced—both now and as capacity scales over time.
What You'll Be Doing
Own end-to-end enterprise planning, spanning demand planning, inventory optimization, supply planning, and capacity planning
Generate high-quality demand signals that drive inventory strategy, supply plans, and long-term manufacturing investment
Ensure tight alignment between demand, supply planning, manufacturing operations, and financial plans
Define and own the planning technology vision, architecture, and multi-year roadmap
Lead transformation initiatives leveraging modern planning platforms, advanced analytics, automation, and AI/ML capabilities
Drive legacy planning system modernization and ERP-integrated planning transformations
Partner closely with manufacturing to support factory start plans, scenario planning, and footprint expansion
Interpret large, complex datasets to identify trends and guide enterprise decision-making
Lead change management, communication, training, and adoption efforts across global planning teams
Develop and mentor senior leaders, establish consistent processes, and define future skill requirements for the planning organization
What They're Looking For
Significant experience leading enterprise-scale planning or supply chain transformation initiatives
Deep expertise across demand planning, supply planning, inventory optimization, and manufacturing capacity planning
Proven track record delivering modern planning systems and migrating from legacy platforms
Strong technical fluency with planning technologies, analytics, and data-driven decision frameworks
Experience operating in complex, global manufacturing environments
Demonstrated success leading managers and senior leaders in distributed, global teams
Ability to operate hands-on while setting long-term strategic direction
Comfortable owning ambiguous, high-impact problems and seeing them through end-to-end
Nice to Have
Background in highly technical or capital-intensive manufacturing environments
Exposure to advanced analytics, automation, AI, or machine-learning-enabled planning
Experience supporting large-scale manufacturing expansion or capacity growth programs
Strong change-management instincts and experience driving adoption at scale