Senior Supply Planning Manager

Evermark; Hackensack (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Evermark, based in New Jersey, seeks a Senior Planning Manager to oversee the development and execution of the company’s supply chain strategy, ensuring product availability while controlling inventory costs. You will lead the supply planning team, collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and Operations, and monitor KPIs to drive improvements and cost efficiency across the network.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years in SCM, strong leadership, and experience with Kinaxis and global brands within consumer

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, business, or a related field.
• Master's degree preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in supply chain management with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
• Experience with Global CMO network is preferred.
• Strong analytical skills and data-driven decision making.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across departments and with external suppliers.
• Strong leadership and presentation skills to engage senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the supply planning team, providing guidance on best practices and ensuring the team is meeting performance objectives.
• Develop and implement supply chain strategies to forecast demand, manage inventory levels, and coordinate with suppliers for timely delivery.
• Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and Operations to meet customer demand while minimizing costs.
• Monitor inventory turns, stock-outs, and service levels; develop action plans to address gaps.
• Support the Kinaxis implementation and establish KPI reporting using new data platforms.
• Manage supplier relationships and ensure supplier performance meets expectations.
• Identify and implement process improvements to optimize inventory and forecasting accuracy.
• Stay current with industry trends and best practices in supply chain management.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decision making

Education

Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, business, or related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Kinaxis

Job description

Evermark is a newly formed beauty and personal care company bringing together a portfolio of iconic, everyday brands with enormous reach and untapped potential: Suave, ChapStick, Q-tips, Caress, St. Ives, TIGI Bed Head, Noxzema, Pond’s, Lever 2000. These are brands people know, trust, and use daily - and we are building their next chapter.

Backed by a growth-oriented YellowWood Partners, we operate with speed, focus, and accountability. Our goal is simple: modernize these brands, accelerate growth, and build a company that consistently outperforms expectations. That means sharpening strategy, raising the bar on execution, and making smart, decisive moves across the enterprise - from how we plan and operate to how we go to market.

This is a company in motion. We are scaling quickly, building new capabilities, and creating the operating model as we go. For the right people, that means rare access, real influence, and the opportunity to help shape not just a role, but a company.

Position Summary

The Senior Planning Manager will be responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of the company's supply chain strategy, with a focus on ensuring the availability of goods to meet customer demand while managing inventory costs. Key responsibilities include leading the supply planning team, developing supply chain strategies, collaborating with other departments, monitoring performance, providing root cause analysis and risk mitigation proposals, managing supplier relationships, identifying and implementing process improvements, and staying current with industry trends.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the supply planning team, providing guidance on best practices and ensuring the team is meeting performance objectives.
• Develop and implement supply chain strategies to ensure efficiency and effectiveness in forecasting demand, managing inventory levels, and coordinating with suppliers for timely delivery of goods.
• Collaborate with other departments such as Sales, Marketing, and Operations to ensure the company is meeting customer demand while minimizing costs.
• Monitor key performance metrics such as inventory turns, stock-outs, and service levels to identify areas for improvement and develop action plans to address them.
• Support the implementation of Kinaxis and establish KPI reporting using new data platforms to understand and improve key supply chain metrics.
• Manage supplier relationships and ensure supplier performance meets expectations.
• Identify and implement process improvements to optimize inventory levels and improve forecasting accuracy.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, new technologies, and best practices in supply chain management, and use this knowledge to continuously improve the company's supply chain processes and strategies.

Primary Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, business, or a related field. Master's degree preferred.
• At least 10 years of experience in supply chain management, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
• Experience working with Global CMO network
• Experience in the consumer goods industry is strongly preferred.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to use data to drive decision-making.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across departments and with external suppliers.
• Strong leadership skills and the ability to motivate and inspire a team to meet performance objectives.
• Strong presentation skills and ability to understand details but speak at a high level to senior leadership to drive messaging and decision making
• Experience with supply chain planning software and tools.
• Knowledge of industry regulations and compliance requirements.
• Ability to stay current with industry trends and best practices in supply chain management.

Personal Attributes:

• Positive and energetic individual with a strong business acumen, and an abiding sense of urgency to achieve results.
• Inquisitive individual who has a history of seeking out best practices and successfully assimilating them into their organization.
• Invokes trust, collaboration, shared accountability, and continuous improvement with the ability to quickly develop trust and loyalty at all levels in the organization and with external constituents.
• Knows what excellence looks like and how to get there.
• Ability to develop and implement strategy, with a high bias for execution and activation, comfort with getting hands dirty.
• Demonstrated track record of problem solving and priority setting.

People Who Thrive Here

We look for people who take ownership, move with urgency, and care deeply about results.

Across every level and function, success here comes from thinking like an operator; not waiting to be told what to do but seeing what needs to happen and driving it forward. The individual must be comfortable working across teams, influencing without hierarchy, and making progress even when the path isn’t perfectly defined.

This is a fast-moving environment with high standards and real accountability. In return, you’ll have meaningful responsibility, autonomy to lead your work, and the opportunity to grow alongside brands, and a company, that are being actively shaped.