General Motors

Business Planning Manager; Supply Chain & Warehousing

General Motors • $110K — $130K *
Warren, MI 48089In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Operations, Business, Finance, or related field.
  • 7+ years of experience in project management, strategy, or supply chain planning.
  • Proven experience managing teams or coordinating across multiple stakeholders.
  • Broad knowledge of supply chain processes and S&OP methodologies.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives.
  • Experience establishing governance and performance tracking mechanisms.
  • Strong executive communication and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

  • Support business operations and leadership routines in the Supply Chain & Warehousing organization.
  • Establish governance for initiatives, risks, decisions, and performance tracking.
  • Lead execution reviews to ensure accountability and follow-through on decisions.
  • Translate strategies into actionable plans with clear milestones and outcomes.
  • Identify and manage dependencies, driving commitments to closure.
  • Integrate various supply chain elements into a cohesive, executable plan.
  • Monitor performance metrics and implement corrective actions.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with flexibility to report on-site at least 3 times a week.
  • Comprehensive training and professional development opportunities.
  • Opportunities for team collaboration across diverse departments and functions.
  • Engagement in special projects aimed at process improvement and efficiency.
Full Job Description
Job Description

The Business Planning Manager supports Supply Chain & Warehousing within GM's Customer Care & Aftersales organization. The role partners with and directly reports to the Supply Chain & Warehousing Executive Director, serving as the planning, governance, and execution backbone for the organization.

This manager translates global and North America strategy into executable plans, drives action-item closure, and connects demand planning, S&OP, supply, logistics, warehousing, fulfillment, finance, safety, and regional operations. The ideal candidate brings diverse end-to-end supply chain experience, global or regional perspective, strong judgment, and the ability to influence without authority.

What You'll Do

Business Planning, Governance, and Execution
  • Support business operations, staff meetings, leadership routines, and special assignments.
  • Establish governance for priorities, initiatives, risks, decisions, performance, and action items.
  • Lead execution reviews and ensure decisions have clear owners, due dates, escalation paths, and follow-through.
  • Translate strategy into operating plans, milestones, measurable outcomes, and benefits realization.
  • Identify barriers, manage dependencies, and drive commitments to closure.


Supply Chain, Logistics, Warehousing, and Fulfillment
  • Integrate demand planning, S&OP, supply, inventory, logistics, warehousing, fulfillment, and financial planning into one executable plan.
  • Lead demand and supply reviews, scenario planning, and alignment of S&OP decisions with replenishment, labor, transportation, capacity, and customer commitments.
  • Monitor forecast-to-execution performance, identify constraints, and drive corrective actions.
  • Evaluate network flows, inventory positioning, service levels, capacity, labor, lanes, and locations to improve responsiveness, cost, and productivity.
  • Support protection-of-supply, business continuity, recovery, and risk-mitigation plans.


Executive Support, Analytics, and Communications
  • Prepare executive briefings, presentations, talking points, leadership updates, and visual summaries.
  • Analyze operating metrics and complex business information to provide clear recommendations.
  • Maintain visibility to budgets, headcount, risks, performance, and leadership priorities.
  • Develop scorecards, dashboards, business cases, risk registers, and decision materials.
  • Handle confidential information and executive communication with sound judgment, professionalism, poise and discretion.


Collaboration, Improvement, and Safety
  • Lead special projects and process improvements that simplify work and strengthen standard ways of working.
  • Collaborate with Supply Chain, Warehousing, Logistics, Demand Planning, S&OP, Finance, Purchasing, Customer Care, IT, Engineering, Manufacturing, Safety, and regional teams.
  • Partner with GM business planners to share best practices and improve planning processes.
  • Include safety considerations in business plans, reviews, risk assessments, and communications.
  • Lead teams from discussion to decision and from decision to execution.


Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Operations, Business, Finance, Project Management, or a related field.
  • 7+ years of experience in project management, strategy, supply chain, business planning or complex operations planning.
  • Experience managing a team, leading a workstream, or coordinating delivery across multiple stakeholders.
  • Broad knowledge of supply chain, logistics, warehousing, demand planning, S&OP, inventory, transportation, capacity, and fulfillment.
  • Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional initiatives from planning through execution.
  • Experience establishing governance, performance reviews, action tracking, and escalation mechanisms.
  • Strong executive communication, analytical, recommendation, problem-solving, and Microsoft Office skills.
  • Ability to influence without authority, manage ambiguity, exercise sound judgment, and remain accountable for results.
  • Willingness and ability to travel as required.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience in automotive, aftermarket, service parts, manufacturing, distribution, or complex global network operations.
  • Global or regional experience, including North America and international markets.
  • Knowledge of CCA (Customer Care and Aftersales) operations, metrics, dealer fulfillment, and service parts availability.
  • Experience with supply disruption response, business continuity, protection of supply, network resilience, ERP, WMS, transportation management, or analytics.
  • Lean, Six Sigma, APICS/ASCM, PMP, or equivalent certification.


Leadership Behaviors
  • Strategic thinker who converts business priorities into practical actions.
  • Execution-oriented owner who creates momentum and drives closure.
  • Governance-minded leader who brings structure, facts, cadence, and decisions to complex work.
  • Influential communicator and trusted partner across functions, regions, and leadership levels.
  • High-integrity, adaptable, inclusive, and continuous-improvement oriented.


Measures of Success
  • Clear governance cadence, decision rights, ownership, and action closure.
  • Stronger alignment between demand, supply, inventory, logistics, warehousing, safety, and financial plans.
  • Improved plan-versus-actual performance and faster corrective action.
  • Measurable progress in service, fulfillment, inventory, cost, productivity, capacity, resilience, safety, and customer experience.


GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc).This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.The selected candidate will be required to travel

About General Motors

General Motors Company engages in the manufacture and sale of cars and trucks in the United States, China, Brazil, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Italy. It offers sedans, crossovers, sport utility vehicles, pick-up trucks, coupes, sports/convertibles and hybrid vehicles, hatchbacks/wagons, and vans, as well as mini cars in India. The company also provides parts and accessories, such as iPod and MP3 compatibility, mobility accessories, performance parts, AC parts and services, and merchandise. In addition, it offers vehicle safety, security, and information services. The company provides used vehicles. It offers its products through dealers and distributors. General Motors Company was formerly known as NGMCO, Inc. and changed its name to General Motors Company in July 2009. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Detroit, Michigan. It operates manufacturing facilities in India, the United States, and Canada. General Motors Company operates as a subsidiary of the United States Department of The Treasury. General Motors led global vehicle sales for 77 consecutive years from 1931 through 2007, longer than any other automaker, and is currently among the world's largest automakers by vehicle unit sales. General Motors acts in most countries outside the USA via wholly-owned subsidiaries but operates in China through 10 joint ventures. GM's OnStar subsidiary provides vehicle safety, security, and information services. In 2009, General Motors shed several brands, closing Saturn, Pontiac, and Hummer, and emerged from a government-backed Chapter 11 reorganization. In 2010, GM made an initial public offering IPOs to date and returned to profitability later that year.

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Size
157,000 employees
Market Cap
$46.9 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
$6.4 billion
Founded
1908
5 Year Trend
-3.2%
Revenue
$122.4 billion
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