Senior Director, Personal Care Supply Chain

Penray; Downers Grove (IL); On-site; USD 170,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision benefits

Life and Short-Term disability paid by

Voluntary benefits including add'l/vol

401k with company match

Paid Time Off

Bonus incentive programs

Job summary

PLZ Corp is seeking a Director of Supply Chain, Personal Care, to lead integrated supply planning, purchasing, and supplier management across all Personal Care locations in the United States. The role drives capacity planning, SIOP execution, and KPI performance to support customer service and working capital goals.

You will lead a distributed team, partner with operations and corporate functions, and influence strategic sourcing with a focus on continuous improvement and risk mitigation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, business, engineering, or related field; APICS cert or advanced degree a plus.
• 10+ years of progressive supply chain experience across multi-site manufacturing with leadership across planning, materials, purchasing or procurement.
• Knowledge of Personal Care supply chain, including chemical and raw material sourcing and supplier relationships.
• Proven success developing supply and inventory plans that improve working capital while maintaining customer service.
• Experience leading networked planning and buying teams with significant direct material spend.
• Strong working knowledge of SIOP/S&OP, capacity planning, production scheduling, supplier management, and inventory optimization.
• Proficiency in SAP, including planning and purchasing master data; strong Excel and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute an integrated supply chain strategy for the Personal Care Business Unit.
• Lead the monthly SIOP supply review, aligning supply, inventory, capacity, purchasing, and material plans with the demand plan.
• Translate demand and inventory requirements into capacity, production, material, and purchasing plans across all Personal Care locations.
• Partner with Operations to measure capacity utilization and deploy capacity to support service and lowest landed cost.
• Lead and develop the network of site production schedulers and centralized transactional buying team.
• Oversee material planning and buying execution to identify component and raw material requirements and communicate risks.
• Ensure supply planning, scheduling, and purchasing support OTIF and working capital targets.
• Collaborate with Corporate Supply Chain, Demand Planning, Operations, Quality, Finance, and others to improve end-to-end performance.
• Drive improvements in supply chain KPIs through root-cause analysis and corrective actions.

Skills

Supply chain leadership

SIOP / S&OP

SAP

Excel

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management

APICS certification or advanced degree

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Excel

Job description

PLZ Corp is seeking a Director of Supply Chain, Personal Care, to lead integrated supply planning, purchasing, and supplier management across all Personal Care locations in the United States. The role drives capacity planning, SIOP execution, and KPI performance to support customer service and working capital goals.

You will lead a distributed team, partner with operations and corporate functions, and influence strategic sourcing with a focus on continuous improvement and risk mitigation.