OverviewWe currently have an opportunity for a Senior Manager Product Supply at our Corporate Headquarters in Lake Forest, IL.
Responsibilities
The Sr. Manager Product Supply provides strategic and operational leadership for end-to-end product supply, ensuring customer and business requirements are translated into reliable, cost-effective, and resilient supply plans. This role integrates demand, supply, capacity, inventory, manufacturing, procurement, and logistics decisions to optimize service, cost, cash, and risk. The position leads cross-functional governance, strengthens planning capabilities, and develops a high-performing organization that delivers sustainable business results.
You Will Have the Opportunity to Make Great Things Happen!
Product Supply Strategy & Business Partnership
- Lead the development and execution of product supply strategies aligned with business, customer, financial, and operational priorities.
- Partner with Commercial, Operations, Finance, Procurement, Innovation, and Logistics leaders to translate growth plans, portfolio changes, promotions, and customer requirements into executable supply plans.
- Provide enterprise recommendations and trade-off decisions that balance service, cost, inventory, capacity, working capital, and risk.
Integrated Planning & Performance
- Own governance and operating rhythms for demand, supply, inventory, capacity, and product availability, ensuring timely decisions and clear accountability.
- Establish and monitor key performance indicators; identify systemic constraints and sponsor corrective actions that improve service, forecast performance, inventory health, productivity, and cost.
- Ensure product supply plans are feasible across manufacturing, external suppliers, materials, warehousing, transportation, and customer-facing operations.
Product Availability & Customer Enablement
- Drive reliable product availability and responsive issue resolution to support customer commitments and profitable growth.
- Ensure new products, renovations, promotions, assortment changes, and business transitions are supported by disciplined supply readiness, risk assessment, and launch execution.
- Lead cross-functional response to material shortages or service disruptions, establishing fact-based priorities, recovery plans, and stakeholder communications.
Inventory, Cost & Network Optimization
- Optimize inventory policies and deployment strategies to improve availability while reducing excess, obsolescence, and working capital exposure.
- Lead initiatives to simplify and standardize planning processes, improve network utilization, and deliver sustainable cost and productivity benefits.
- Develop business cases, prioritize investments, and ensure product supply initiatives deliver measurable operational and financial outcomes.
Process, Data & Digital Transformation
- Champion effective use of data, analytics, planning systems, and automation to improve visibility, scenario planning, exception management, and decision quality.
- Establish consistent process ownership, decision rights, data standards, and controls across product supply activities.
- Lead adoption of new capabilities and ways of working, ensuring changes are embedded and sustained across functions and business teams.
Leadership, Risk & Talent Development
- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing product supply organization with clear roles, objectives, decision rights, and accountability.
- Build succession pipelines and functional capability through talent development, performance coaching, workforce planning, and knowledge sharing.
- Identify material supply, capacity, supplier, continuity, and execution risks; ensure practical mitigation and contingency plans are maintained in accordance with company policies, safety expectations, and applicable laws.
You Will Love It Here If
- You listen, learn, and evolve
- You thrive in a fast-paced environment
- You put safety first, always
- You are passionate about collaboration, teamwork, and achieving shared goals
- You believe in treating all people with respect, operating ethically, and growing a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace
- You are committed to improving our impact on local communities and creating positive experiences
Qualifications
Education/Experience
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.
- Minimum of 8 years of progressive experience in product supply, supply planning, demand planning, operations, manufacturing, logistics, or a related discipline, including at least 5 years leading teams and major cross-functional initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience leading integrated planning and product supply execution in a complex, multi-site manufacturing, consumer products, or similarly scaled environment.
Preferred
- Master's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Operations, or a related field.
- Professional certification such as APICS CPIM, CSCP, or equivalent.
Want to know more? Check out our website or connect with us on LinkedIn! Apply today to join a fast-growing innovative company!
Not a good fit but know someone who is? Please refer them! No unsolicited recruiter or agency inquiries, please.
Posted Salary RangeUSD $127,700.00 - USD $185,150.00 /A
Bonus EligibilityRole is eligible for 18% annual incentive provided the business meets financial goals and the individual meets their performance goals, subject to plan administration guidelines.
