Strategic Supply Chain Planning Lead

College of American Pathologists

Cerritos (CA)

On-site

USD 110,000 - 140,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

College of American Pathologists seeks a Supply Chain Planning Manager to lead end-to-end planning across Cerritos, La Mirada, and Vista sites, translating demand into executable capacity plans and guiding the planning team.

You will own the integrity of the integrated production plan and coordinate with Manufacturing, Scheduling, Procurement, Customer Service, Quality, Warehouse, R&D, Finance, Inventory Control, and Commercial to meet customer commitments and drive continuous improvement.

Qualifications

Demonstrated experience managing high-volume production planning across multiple facilities.
Strong knowledge of MRP, master production scheduling, finite capacity planning, inventory strategy, and capacity management.
Strong ERP and advanced Excel skills, with the ability to translate planning data into clear decisions and actions.
Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional reviews, resolve competing priorities, identify risks early, and drive accountability across functions without relying solely on positional authority.
Experience with SYSPRO or comparable manufacturing ERP, Power BI, and/or finite scheduling tools preferred.

Responsibilities

Develops, publishes, and maintains the master production schedule across facilities, work centers, and critical resources, balancing demand, capacity, labor, equipment, materials, quality status, lead times, and campaign requirements.
Evaluates capacity and demand gaps and recommends actions such as facility transfers, shift changes, sequencing adjustments, inventory strategies, or approved external capacity to protect customer commitments.
Establishes and enforces standards for production order creation, release, rescheduling, cancellation, and planning-date management within the ERP system.
Owns the accuracy of planning dates, priorities, and commitments; monitor past-due, aging, and obsolete orders and ensure exceptions have a clear owner, action, and resolution date.
Maintains alignment between customer demand, sales orders, production orders, inventory requirements, and production commitments.
Ensures planned jobs are executable before release by confirming material availability, BOMs, formulas, routings, specifications, documentation, and quality requirements through the appropriate functional owners.
Identifies and communicates material and readiness risks early, providing affected orders, customer impact, required actions, owners, and recovery dates.
Maintains short, mid, and long-range capacity views; identifies bottlenecks and future constraints and recommends actions to improve service, throughput, and capacity utilization.
Partners with the Operations Scheduling Manager to translate the master plan into a finite, executable schedule and maintains alignment between planning priorities and detailed production sequencing.
Leads recurring planning reviews that identify constraints, establish priorities, assign accountable owners and due dates, and track actions through closure.