Hearthside Food Solutions

Director Collaborative Planning

Hearthside Food Solutions$160K — $220K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, Logistics, Business Administration, or related field; Master's degree or professional certifications (e.g., APICS, Six Sigma) is a plus.
  • 5-7 years of experience in supply chain management or related roles.
  • Expertise in collaborative planning for the 5-13 week horizon.
  • Proficient in MS Office Suite, SAP, and Blue Yonder.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with emphasis on data-driven decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the 5-13 week collaborative planning process, ensuring accuracy and alignment.
  • Manage and develop planning managers for the specified planning horizon.
  • Identify and escalate risks related to demand, supply, and capacity.
  • Collaborate with plant scheduling for seamless execution of plans.
  • Drive alignment on planning tradeoffs across functions and stakeholders.
  • Enhance planning processes and data visibility for better decision-making.
  • Oversee supply chain transformation initiatives and track their implementation progress.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and dental coverage from the first day of employment.
  • Retirement savings plan (401k) with company contributions.
  • Wellness benefits to support employee health.
  • Eligibility for discretionary annual performance-based incentives.
Full Job Description
Job Summary

The Director Collaborative Planning leads the company's 5-13 week collaborative planning process across platforms. This role manages the corporate planning team, ensures planning outputs are consistent and actionable, and connects demand, supply, capacity, operations, customer, and finance inputs into an aligned near-term plan.

The role is responsible for driving planning discipline, issue escalation, cross-functional alignment, and plan reliability across the 5-13 week horizon. In addition, this role leads the planning, execution, and governance of major supply chain transformation initiatives across the business. This role partners with Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, Commercial, IT, HR, and plant leadership to ensure transformation programs are clearly prioritized, well-managed, and delivered with measurable business impact. The role is responsible for driving implementation discipline, tracking progress, removing roadblocks, managing cross-functional dependencies, and ensuring initiatives translate into sustainable process, organization, cost, service, and capability improvements.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead the 5-13 week collaborative planning process across platforms, ensuring plans are accurate, aligned, consistent, and executable.
  • Manage and develop platform-level planning managers responsible for the 5-13 week planning horizon.
  • Identify demand, supply, capacity, labor, material, and service risks within the 5-13 week horizon and ensure timely escalation.
  • Partner with plant scheduling teams to ensure a clear handoff from the 5-13 week collaborative plan into the 0-4 week execution window.
  • Drive cross-functional alignment on planning tradeoffs, including customer priorities, capacity constraints, inventory impacts, and service risk.
  • Own management of segmentation and production wheel methodologies, adoption, and adherence
  • Improve planning processes, tools, and data quality to increase visibility, consistency, and decision speed.
  • Lead the execution and governance of supply chain transformation initiatives across planning, inventory, logistics, warehousing, operating model, process improvement, and enabling technology. inventory, logistics, warehousing, operating model, process improvement, and enabling technology.
  • Manage the overall supply chain transformation roadmap, including priorities, timelines, milestones, dependencies, risks, and expected business impact.
  • Partner with Supply Chain leadership to translate strategic priorities into clear initiatives, workplans, owners, deliverables, and measurable outcomes.
  • Track initiative progress against scope, timing, savings, service, productivity, working capital, and other defined performance targets.
  • Identify risks, roadblocks, and cross-functional dependencies; work with functional leaders to resolve issues and keep initiatives on track.
  • Support change management, communication, training, and adoption plans to ensure new processes, tools, and ways of working are sustained.
  • Partner with Finance to validate business cases, track value capture, and report realized benefits from transformation initiatives.
  • Develop standard templates, playbooks, reporting tools, and project management discipline to improve execution consistency across supply chain initiatives.


Qualifications
  • Education: Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, Logistics, Business Administration, or related field. Master's degree or professional certifications (e.g., APICS, Six Sigma) is a plus.
  • Experience: Master's degree or professional certifications (e.g., APICS, Six Sigma) is a plus.
  • Technical Skills: MS Office Suite, SAP, Blue Yonder
  • Skills:
    • Collaborative planning leadership (5-13 week horizon)
    • Integrated demand, supply, and capacity planning expertise
    • Cross-functional alignment and decision facilitation
    • Strong understanding of S&OP and near-term execution handoffs
    • Data-driven decision making and KPI tracking (service, inventory, adherence)
    • Continuous improvement of planning processes, tools, and data quality
    • Team leadership, coaching, and capability development
    • Executive communication and stakeholder influence
    • Supply chain transformation program leadership and execution
    • End-to-end supply chain expertise (planning, inventory, logistics, warehousing)
    • Strategic roadmap development and initiative prioritization
    • Program governance, risk management, and performance tracking
    • Financial acumen, including business case development and value realization
    • Continuous improvement and operational excellence methodologies
    • Change management, communication, and adoption leadership
    • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
    • Ability to manage complexity and drive results in a matrixed environment

The information provided in this document provides an overview of the most common duties, qualifications, and demands of the position. It is not intended to be a comprehensive summary of the role, and the duties, qualifications, and demands of the position are subject to change without notice. The expectations provided here may also be modified if an employee with a disability could effectively meet the expectations for the role with reasonable accommodation.

The pay range for this full-time, salaried position is $160,226 - $220,367/year. Individual base pay depends on work location and additional factors such as experience, job-related skills, and relevant education or training. The position is eligible for a discretionary annual incentive based on company and individual performance. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, 401k and wellness benefits beginning on the first day of employment. This information is provided per the relevant state and local pay transparency laws for the location in which this position will be performed. Base pay information is based on market location.

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About Hearthside Food Solutions

Hearthside Food Solutions is a leading contract manufacturer of baked goods, bars, snacks, and other food products. The company provides a range of services, including product development, packaging, and distribution, and serves customers in the retail, foodservice, and industrial markets. Hearthside Food Solutions operates more than 40 facilities across North America and Europe and has a reputation for delivering high-quality products and exceptional customer service. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois.
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10,000 employees
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Founded
2009

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