Supply Chain Planning Director

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Job Description:

Supply Chain Planning Director (Dental Business) (Solventum)

3M Health Care is now Solventum

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

The Supply Chain Planning Director’s role is to manage people, processes and tools across demand, supply and portfolio management, as well as the planning frameworks, integrated business planning (IBP), and sales and operations execution (S&OE). This role is responsible for the successful execution of planning processes that balance demand and supply resources and align plans to business objectives. It has accountability to enable business leaders to make decisions that help realign execution with strategy in an ever-changing environment. This role supports the organization to make better decisions and balance service, cost, inventory, sustainability and risk.

The supply chain planning director develops and maintains professional relationships with other functions, such as marketing, commercial, product development, manufacturing, logistics, procurement and finance to reconcile top-down financial plans with the bottom-up operational plans.

The individual in this position will be responsible for the following:

• Objectives

This position is responsible for making decisions that impact demand, supply and final consensus plans, which includes:

• Work across Plan, Source, Make, Deliver and other critical pillars to drive Top Quartile Service Performance in the Med Tech industry.
• Managing and facilitating the IBP and S&OE processes to drive alignment and achievement of short, medium and long-term business objectives.
• Work closely with the business & customers to align on supply chain strategies that support our different go-to-market models.
• Collaborating with other departments and stakeholders to identify and maintain resources needed to establish and provide an effective supply chain.
• Communicating decisions to stakeholders, as well as identify and resolve plan variances, risk and opportunities at the regional and global level.
• Serve as the point-person for escalation of portfolio and risk-related issues.
• Strategy
• Identify and implement new business critical metrics and processes that enhance measures around speed, delivery performance, and cost and measure the consequential improvement over time.
• Collaborate with key cross-functional teams to model scenarios to recommend planning strategies, establish inventory targets and execute the plan.
• Develop a companywide strategic roadmap to improve planning maturity and align strategic roadmap with key stakeholders across functions, hierarchy and different parts of the business.
• Communications
  • Work with business unit leadership to generate a consensus demand plan, consensus supply plan and a final S&OP plan.
  • Influence and collaborate with key partners in marketing, sales (field sales, corporate sales managers and directors), operations and finance and address input gaps as identified by forecast error, bias and volatility review, supplier performance, supply constraints and other means.
  • Manage teams of planners to continually assess operational network planning assumptions in conjunction with procurement, planning, manufacturing operations and logistics/warehousing, including safety stocks, lead times, order quantities, campaign or production strategy, batch yields and cycle times.
• Execution
• Assist in development of annual and strategic plans and reconcile them with monetized S&OP plans. Drive resolution of gaps to plans and communicate and escalate critical gaps between the plans in the S&OP process.
• Conduct and/or facilitate what-if analysis to create alternate scenarios for reconciling demand, supply, and financial plans. Explain and communicate the risks and upside associated with different scenarios for more productive cross-functional discussions.
• Manage demand and supply teams including supply network planning and optimization to develop monthly S&OP input (medium- or long-term demand and supply plans and working capital position)
• Assess current processes and identify and lead improvements in planning tools, reporting, processes, culture and skills required to align process outcomes with corporate goals
• Work with the demand and supply teams to define and drive an out-of-cycle plan variance realignment process if required.

Your Skills and Expertise

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited university and 10 years of Supply Chain experience in private, public, government or military environment

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Five (5) years of leadership experience in a private, public, government or military environment

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• E2E Supply Chain process knowledge
• Demonstrated leadership of geographically diverse team membersBusiness and Financials Acumen / Knowledge
• Medtech industry experience is preferred
• APICS Certification
• Lean Six Sigma experience
• Ability to operate at Strategic and Operational levels
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to prioritize multiple tasks
• Ability to drive for results while navigating ambiguity
• Experience leading large cross-functional projects including using project management skills to motivate and align resources
• Proven ability to successfully influence, negotiate, and resolve conflicts to drive decisions across all levels of the organization

Work location:

• Hybrid Eligible (Job Duties allow for some remote work but require travel to a Solventum location -St.Paul)

Travel: May include up to 20% domestic/international

Relocation Assistance: May be authorized

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Supporting Your Well-being

Solventum offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, Solventum regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope.

Applicable to US Applicants Only:The expected compensation range for this position is $222,044 - $271,387, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible. This range represents a good faith estimate for this position. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s relevant knowledge, training, skills, work location, and/or experience. In addition, this position may be eligible for a range of benefits (e.g., Medical, Dental & Vision, Health Savings Accounts, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Disability Benefits, Life Insurance, Voluntary Benefits, Paid Absences and Retirement Benefits, etc.). Additional information is available at: https://www.solventum.com/en-us/home/our-company/careers/#Total-RewardsResponsibilities of this position include that corporate policies, procedures and security standards are complied with while performing assigned duties.

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