Senior Manager, Supply Planning - LATAM

neogen; Mexico; On-site; PHP 8,145,000 - 11,278,000; Full time

Job summary

Neogen in LATAM seeks a Senior Manager, Supply Planning to lead regional supply planning, inventory strategy, and purchasing across Latin America to ensure product availability and service excellence.

You will partner with Commercial, Finance, Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, Customer Care, Procurement, and Global Supply Chain to translate business requirements into executable supply plans and to manage constraints and supplier performance.

Qualifications

• Experience leading LATAM supply planning and purchasing.
• Strong inventory optimization and risk management skills.
• Ability to translate business requirements into actionable plans.

Responsibilities

• Lead the LATAM supply planning process balancing supply and business priorities.
• Develop supply scenarios and contingency plans for capacity limitations.
• Translate business requirements into actionable supply, purchasing, and inventory plans.
• Collaborate with Commercial, Finance, Manufacturing, and Global Supply Chain to assess implications of growth and launches.
• Define and optimize inventory policies, lead times, and service levels.
• Drive planning governance, analytics, and continuous improvement.
• Act as regional escalation point for critical supply constraints and supplier performance.

Skills

Supply planning

Inventory management

Purchasing

Cross-functional leadership

Data analytics

ERP systems

Job description

It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they are doing!

The Senior Manager, Supply Planning - LATAM is responsible for leading the regional supply planning and purchasing organization across Latin America. This role oversees supply planning, inventory strategy, purchasing, and supply continuity to ensure product availability, service excellence, working capital optimization, and effective alignment of supply with business requirements.

This leader partners closely with Commercial, Finance, Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, Customer Care, Procurement, and Global Supply Chain teams to translate business requirements into executable supply plans, establish consistent planning processes, and proactively manage constraints, inventory risks, and supplier performance.

The role is accountable for strengthening supply plan attainment, product availability, purchasing effectiveness, inventory health, and overall planning excellence across the region. The position serves as the primary regional leader for supply planning, inventory optimization, and supply risk management, ensuring alignment between regional requirements and global supply capabilities.

Supply Planning & S&OP

• Lead the LATAM supply planning process, balancing supply capabilities against approved business requirements and priorities.
• Develop supply scenarios and contingency plans to address capacity limitations, material shortages, and business variability.
• Translate business requirements into actionable supply, purchasing, and inventory plans.
• Collaborate with Commercial, Finance, Manufacturing, and Global Supply Chain teams to evaluate supply implications of growth opportunities, product launches, and portfolio changes.
• Ensure alignment of regional supply plans with global supply strategies and operational capabilities.

Supply Planning & Inventory Management

• Lead the regional supply plan across imported, locally sourced, and intercompany products.
• Own supply plan attainment and inventory performance across the LATAM region.
• Define inventory policies and parameters, including safety stock, reorder points, target coverage, planning lead times, and service levels.
• Optimize product availability and working capital while reducing excess, obsolete, slow-moving, and expiring inventory.
• Lead supply continuity, constraint recovery, allocation decisions, new product introductions, phase-in, and phase-out planning.
• Drive planning parameter optimization and inventory segmentation strategies to improve service and inventory productivity.
• Lead supply network balancing activities to optimize inventory investment while supporting customer service objectives.
• Develop proactive supply risk assessments and mitigation strategies across suppliers, products, and markets.

Purchasing & Supplier Management

• Lead regional purchasing execution and governance for finished goods, materials, and supply-related services within the role's scope.
• Ensure purchase orders, supplier confirmations, lead times, and delivery commitments are accurate, timely, and aligned with approved supply plans.
• Manage supplier performance in partnership with Global Procurement, Quality, Manufacturing, and business stakeholders.
• Identify cost, service, and process-efficiency opportunities while ensuring compliance with Neogen policies and controls.
• Support supplier capacity planning and supply continuity efforts to reduce operational risk and improve service performance.
• Conduct supplier performance reviews and implement corrective actions where needed to support business objectives.

Operational Excellence & Analytics

• Standardize regional supply planning, purchasing, inventory management, master data, and supplier management processes while respecting local regulatory and quality requirements.
• Develop regional dashboards and analytics to provide visibility into supply plan attainment, service levels, inventory performance, supplier performance, and purchasing effectiveness.
• Drive adoption and data discipline across ERP, planning, and reporting tools.
• Lead automation initiatives and continuous improvement projects that enhance planning effectiveness and efficiency.
• Use structured problem-solving and root-cause analysis methodologies to resolve recurring supply and inventory issues.
• Establish planning governance and performance management processes that drive accountability across the organization.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Partner with Commercial, Finance, Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, Procurement, Customer Care, IT, and Global Supply Chain teams to align supply plans with business priorities and operational capabilities.
• Act as the senior LATAM escalation point for critical supply constraints, inventory risks, supplier performance issues, material shortages, and capacity challenges.
• Present supply scenarios, inventory strategies, risk assessments, and business recommendations to regional leadership.
• Facilitate cross-functional decisi