IBP Supply Manager - The Toro Company

The Toro Company; Minnesota; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Onsite wellness and fitness facility

Job summary

The Toro Company is seeking an IBP Supply Manager to lead master scheduling and demand planning across divisions. You will align demand plans with supply, collaborate with sales and operations, and optimize inventory while driving strategic supply chain initiatives.

Hybrid role with travel to USA factories; strong analytics, Excel and SAP expertise are required to deliver 24–48 month plans and ensure on-time production and customer fulfillment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in business, supply chain, import-export, inventory management, or industrial engineering; master’s preferred.
• 5+ years in demand planning, master scheduling, production scheduling, inventory management or analytics.
• SAP knowledge is essential.

Responsibilities

• Balance demand and supply through scenario planning and inventory optimization.
• Coordinate with sales, marketing, planning and operations to maintain a stable schedule.
• Lead ISC planning strategies across manufacturing sites and regions.

Skills

Strong communication

Education

Degree in Business, Supply chain or Industrial Engineering

Tools

SAP

Job description

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of a school/employment or any other visa, regardless of expiration date, now or in the future.

Who Are We?

The Toro Company is a homegrown, Minnesota-based company that has been in business since 1914. We pride ourselves on providing world-class equipment to help maintain the environment that we love, while putting an emphasis on giving back to the communities that surround us. From residential lawns and gardens, to venues such as St Andrews Links and Target Field, we are a company with a global footprint and a passion for helping people beautify whatever landscape they may be in. With 100 years of operation under our belt and a healthy tenure, come find out what makes The Toro Company the best place in the Twin Cities to build a career.

IBP Supply Manager

is responsible for establishing, reviewing and maintaining the master production schedule in alignment with the Sales, Inventory, and Operations consensus plan both for IBPA and SAP for a specific division assigned. Working together with demand planning, operations leaders, material planners, sourcing, production sites and others to coordinate manufacturing plans that support the company’s strategic objectives.

What Will You Do?

• Responsible for scenario planning, provide a thorough analysis to balance demand and supply while optimizing inventory and minimizing the impact of demand volatility or suggest action plans to mitigate.
• Create valuable connections with sales and marketing teams in order to have a stable schedule and satisfy customer demands helping ISC achieve their goals and strategic initiatives.
• Create and maintain time fences by product to design supply chain per product or division.
• Leading the ISC planning strategies for the manufacturing sites schedule.
• Develop class A standard processes for long range planning exercises as well as Integrated Tactical planning to identify capacity gaps, achieve inventory targets and load 36 month plan into the planning tools for the division and region assigned.
• Provide capacity line data and maintain data bases for capacity at the sites in order to work with IBP Data management team in order to keep systems updated.
• Provides monthly production volume planning using the business forecast, inventory position, actual customer orders, and defined capacity parameters. Provides monthly sales fulfillment projection to the division.
• Actively tracks order progression to assure schedule attainment.
• Supervises production control planners ensuring scheduling optimization and productivity of production lines.
• Document, update and maintain standard processes and best practices in place.
• Be the main connection for escalations and demand changes as well as establishing a link between Demand and ISC to translate customer requirements into ISC key inputs.
• Analyze daily demand intelligence against forecasts and recommend proactive inventory and scheduling actions to address at the division level.
• Prepare information per division and sites to input in monthly operations reviews for forecast with the Executive Leadership team.
• Leverage Industry data and IBPA planning tool to generate both near and long term forecasts.
• Load 24 month SAP demand plan for requirement planning and IBPA to match systems.

What Do You Need?

• Degree in Business, Supply chain, Import-Export and Inventory management or Industrial Engineering (Master’s degree desirable).
• 5+ years experience in Demand Planning, Master Scheduling and production scheduling, Inventory management and analytics.
• SAP knowledge is a must.
• Experience in leading projects, plant transfers and new product introduction.
• Expertise leading a cross-functional SIOP process; proficiency in demand forecasting, capacity, supply, and inventory planning.
• APICS certification desirable.
• Ability to clearly present build plans, create templates for high level executives and plant leadership.
• Strategic thinking and decision making with strong analytical skills.
• Solid understanding of supply chain planning systems, SAP, understanding of concepts of planning, inventory, production plans, supply and demand, Sales and Marketing, Inventory management and distribution centers.
• Optimal Excel skills, data management and analytical skills to drive results and assumptions from data.

Skills

• Strong communication skills, English fluent, customer oriented, able to be objective and persuasive to drive high level leadership changes and strategies, strong analytical skills, strategic, problem solver, self-driven and focused on data quality and accuracy, able to train and influence changes in data and production plan.

Other Job-Related Components

• Working conditions: will spend time training online and managing conference calls to align data in a software tool.
• Travel expectation: 50% travel to USA factories and within Mexico northern when required.

What Can We Give You?

• Dress for your day - We know you're more productive when you're comfortable, which is why TTC employees are encouraged to take advantage of our casual, corporate environment.
• Location – Conveniently located near both St. Paul and Minneapolis, we are centrally located for most commuters!
• Food - Take advantage of our onsite café, which serves both breakfast and lunch. With a Caribou Coffee attached, you can grab a snack and a coffee at any time during your day.
• Wellness - The Toro Company’s HQ offers complimentary use of our onsite fitness facility to employees. In addition to physical wellbeing, TTC offers a variety of mental health and financial health resources to all employees.
• Volunteerism - The Toro Company is proud to provide employees 20 hours of paid time to volunteer in the community.
• Summer Hours – Enjoy a flexible schedule during the summer! By working a little more during the first few days of the week, TTC employees at our Bloomington HQ are able to start their weekends early and leave by noon on Friday.
• Flexible Work Arrangements – This team is currently implementing a hybrid work schedule. The opportunity to collaborate in a hybrid way, with some time spent in office and some from home, has promoted team building and flexibility.
• Competitive Salary – The pay range takes into account skills, experience, education, and location. It is not common to be hired at or near the top of the range; compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the annual pay range is between $120,000 - $145,000 . Cash compensation is one piece of our competitive total rewards package. If you need to, you can access your pay early with the dailypay app.

At The Toro Company, we are committed to fostering a secure and trustworthy recruitment experience for our applicants. Recruitment fraud is a growing concern for job seekers, so please be aware that throughout our recruitment process, you’ll never be required to pay any fees or disclose personal financial details when applying to TTC opportunities. All legitimate job opportunities must be applied for directly through our official careers page at jobs.thetorocompany.com or via Workday, our applicant tracking system.

The Toro Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all qualified applicants based on merit and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military service, or other non-merit factors. We are committed to creating a welcoming environment for all employees.