Supply Chain Planning Leader

DuPont; Wilmington (DE); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

DuPont is seeking a Supply Chain Planning Leader to define, build, and deploy an enterprise-wide planning operating model. You will harmonize Demand, Supply, Production Planning, and IBP across businesses and regions, partnering with senior leaders to improve service, inventory, and cash flow.

You will lead a team of planners, drive standardization while respecting site needs, and report to senior supply chain leadership in a global matrix.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Operations, Business, or related discipline; advanced degree preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive leadership in global supply chain and planning across multiple businesses, regions, and manufacturing environments.
• Deep experience in Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Production Planning/Master Scheduling, S&OP/IBP, inventory optimization, and capacity planning.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing senior leaders across Commercial, Operations, Finance, and IT/Digital.
• Strong business acumen with ability to translate strategy into integrated demand, supply, inventory, and capacity plans.
• Willingness to travel 20–30% as required.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the enterprise planning strategy and operating model across Lines of Business.
• Establish a common global framework connecting demand, supply, production planning and scheduling, and execution.
• Set enterprise standards, governance, planning horizons, and escalation mechanisms.
• Balance standardization with differing business needs and manufacturing constraints.
• Drive IBP/S&OP processes to ensure an integrated view of demand, supply, capacity, and inventory.
• Improve translation of demand into executable production and inventory plans across sites.

Skills

Demand Planning

Supply Planning

Production Planning

S&OP/IBP

Inventory optimization

Capacity planning

Planning systems & analytics

Strategic leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain/Engineering/Operations/Business

Job description

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Supply Chain Planning Leader

Position Summary

The Supply Chain Planning Leader is responsible for defining, building, and deploying DuPont's global end-to-end supply chain planning operating model across all Lines of Business. This leader will establish harmonized processes, standards, governance, capabilities, and performance management for Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Production Planning and Scheduling, and Integrated Business Planning (IBP).

The role will create greater consistency and connectivity from customer demand through manufacturing execution, enabling faster and better decision-making, improved customer service, increased inventory and working-capital productivity, and stronger operational resilience.

Working across a complex global matrix, the Planning Leader will partner with Line of Business, Commercial, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Finance, Procurement, IT/Digital, and Operational Excellence leaders to create enterprise planning standards while ensuring the processes remain practical and responsive to different business and manufacturing models. The role manages a small team of Supply Chain professionals.

This role directly supports DuPont's enterprise supply chain strategy to establish common standards, governance, performance management and capabilities across Lines of Business. The role reports to the VP, Integrated Supply Chain.

*** Please note - This position is located at the DuPont Corporate Headquarter offices in Wilmington, Delaware and follows a hybrid work policy (4 days in the office and 1 day remote)**

Key Responsibilities

Global Planning Strategy & Operating Model

• Define and lead the enterprise planning strategy and operating model , aligned to DuPont's business, growth, commercial, operational excellence, and supply chain strategies.
• Establish a common global framework connecting Demand Planning → Supply Planning → Production Planning & Scheduling → Execution.
• Define enterprise standards, roles, decision rights, governance, planning horizons, operating cadence, and escalation mechanisms.
• Balance enterprise standardization with the differing needs of DuPont's businesses, manufacturing technologies, customer segments, and supply networks.
• Establish clear maturity expectations and roadmaps to progressively improve planning performance across all Lines of Business.

This emphasis parallels DuPont's broader supply chain operating-model direction, which calls for clear roles, decision rights, governance and performance expectations across Lines of Business.

Demand Planning & Integrated Business Planning

• Establish common Demand Planning standards that strengthen forecast quality, assumptions, accountability, and integration with Commercial and Business teams.
• Strengthen IBP/S&OP processes to create one integrated view of demand, supply, capacity, inventory, risk, and opportunity.
• Ensure appropriate executive decision-making and scenario planning when demand, capacity, materials, or business priorities are misaligned.
• Drive stronger integration between planning and business strategy, including growth initiatives, product transitions, capacity decisions, and portfolio changes.

Supply & Production Planning Excellence

• Establish enterprise standards for supply planning, production planning, master scheduling, inventory planning, and capacity management.
• Improve translation of demand into executable production and inventory plans.
• Strengthen planning discipline across manufacturing sites and external manufacturing networks.
• Partner with Manufacturing and Operations leaders to improve schedule stability, responsiveness, asset utilization, and customer delivery.
• Define segmentation approaches that recognize differing products, customers, lead times, manufacturing constraints, and supply-chain economics.

Performance Management & Continuous Improvement

• Establish a common planning performance framework with clear enterprise KPIs and leading indicators.
• Drive sustained improvement in measures such as:
• Customer service / delivery
• Forecast accuracy and bias
• Schedule adherence / attainment
• Inventory and working capital
• Slow-moving and obsolete inventory
• Planning stability
• Capacity utilization and supply responsiveness
• Create transparent performance reviews and use root-cause/problem-solving disciplines to close performance gaps.
• Partner with Operational Excellence to embed planning improvements into the DuPont Business System (DBS) and build a culture of continuous improvement.

Digital Planning, Data & Analytics

• Partner with IT/Digital and business leaders to define the enterprise roadmap for planning technology, data, analytics, and automation.
• Establish common data definitions and robust single sources of truth for planning performance and decision-making.
• Advance the use of scenario modeling, predictive analytics, AI, and automation to improve planning quality, speed, and productivity.
• Ensure technology investments reinforce standardized business processes rather than automate unnecessary complexity.

Organizational Capability & Talent

• Build an enterprise planning community and strengthen capability across Demand, Supply, Production Planning, Scheduling, and IBP.
• Define critical planning capabilities, roles, competencies, career paths, and development priorities.
• Establish standard training, coaching, practitioner development, and knowledge-sharing mechanisms.
• Develop a strong pipeline of supply chain planning talent and future enterprise supply chain leaders.
• Lead, coach, and develop the global Planning team while influencing a broader network of planners embedded throughout Lines of Business.

Enterprise Leadership & Change

• Serve as the senior enterprise authority for planning processes and standards.
• Influence senior Business, Commercial, Manufacturing, Finance, and Supply Chain leaders toward enterprise solutions while recognizing legitimate business requirements.
• Lead significant change across businesses, regions, functions, and cultures.
• Simplify complexity, challenge legacy practices, and create organizational commitment to common processes.
• Represent Planning within the global Supply Chain leadership team and contribute to the broader strategic direction and transformation of Supply Chain.

Experience & Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Operations, Business, or a related discipline; advanced degree preferred.
• 15 or more years of progressive leadership experience in global supply chain and planning, ideally across multiple businesses, regions, and manufacturing environments.
• Deep experience in several of the following:
• Demand Planning
• Supply Planning
• Production Planning / Master Scheduling
• S&OP / Integrated Business Planning
• Inventory and working-capital optimization
• Capacity planning
• Planning systems, data, and analytics
• Demonstrated success establishing or transforming planning processes across a complex global matrix organization.
• Track record of translating business strategy into integrated demand, supply, inventory, and capacity plans.
• Strong business and financial acumen with demonstrated understanding of the trade-offs across customer service, inventory, capacity, cost, cash, and growth.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders across Commercial, Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, IT/Digital, and other functions.
• Experience leading large-scale business-process and organizational change.
• 20%-30% travel required

Preferred

• Experience developing and deploying global planning standards or a Planning Center of Excellence.
• Experience with integrated business planning, advanced planning systems, ERP platforms, digital supply-chain technologies, and advanced analytics. These capabilities are also identified in DuPont's VP Integrated Supply Chain role materials.
• Lean / Operational Excellence experience with strong structured problem-solving and continuous-improvement capability.
• Experience building global functional capability, talent pipelines, and communities of practice.
• APICS/ASCM certification such as CPIM or CSCP is advantageous.

DuPont is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability or any other protected class. If you need a reasonable accommodation to search or apply for a position, please visit our Accessibility Page for Contact Information (http://www.dupont.com/global-links/accessibility.html) .

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