Solenis

Director, SIOP – Americas

Solenis

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $163,550 - $239,866 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Own the end-to-end monthly SIOP/IBP cycle for the Americas, establishing agendas, standard work, inputs, and analytics to ensure forums collaborate effectively , generate clear risks and opportunities, quantified gaps, actionable outcomes, and documented owners.
  • Drive a single aligned regional forecast (“one number”) with agreed assumptions, collaborating with Commercial to improve accuracy, reduce bias, strengthen demand signals, and ensure Operations and Supply Chain feasibility is incorporated early.
  • Manage structured scenario planning and decision-making under constraints—asset, raw material, logistics, or quality—and own supply allocation frameworks supporting customer segmentation, service policies, margin-based decisions, and escalation to executives.
  • Drive measurable reductions in excess, obsolete, and hidden-buffer inventory by implementing disciplined safety stock, lead time, and segmentation governance, while partnering with Finance to align planning and inventory targets with financial commitments.
  • Build a performance management system tracking OTIF, schedule attainment, forecast accuracy, inventory turns, and freight costs, while driving root-cause resolution for recurring planning issues.
  • Establish expectations and capability standards for planners, coaching and developing talent to strengthen bench depth, and define adoption requirements for standard work and governance rhythms.
  • Serve as the Americas customer and deployment partner to the Global CoE, adopting global standards, tools, and KPIs locally, and providing structured feedback on playbook gaps, adoption barriers, training needs, and system enablement priorities.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree required; MBA preferred
  • 12–15+ years of progressive leadership in SIOP / IBP / planning / supply chain
  • Demonstrated experience building and/or running executive SIOP governance
  • Experience in complex manufacturing environment strongly preferred: specialty chemicals process manufacturing multi-site and multi-business portfolios
  • Proven record delivering measurable outcomes: working capital / inventory turns service stabilization planning discipline and governance
  • Excellent executive facilitation skills with strong collaboration, communication, interpersonal, and influencing abilities
  • Experience with planning systems and analytics preferred (SAP IBP / Kinaxis / OMP)
  • Executive presence; can challenge and align senior leaders
  • Ability to influence outcomes and take action effectively without direct authority
  • Systems thinker + pragmatic operator
  • High accountability orientation: closes gaps, doesn’t “admire problems”
  • High comfort with ambiguity; uses data to drive actions and commitments
Benefits
  • medical, dental, vision & 401K
  • numerous opportunities for professional growth and development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
SIOPIBPsupply chain planningscenario planningperformance managementinventory managementforecast accuracysafety stock governancefinancial alignmentexecutive governance
Soft Skills
executive facilitationcollaborationcommunicationinterpersonal skillsinfluencingcoachingproblem-solvingaccountabilityadaptabilitydata-driven decision making
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeMBA