Network Planning Manager

The Clorox Company

Network Planning Manager supporting Brita's supply planning and strategic inventory decisions. Overseeing collaboration across teams and managing long-term supply sufficiency.

Posted 5/17/2026full-timeAlpharetta • California, North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $128,000 - $252,200 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ERP

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Network Planning Manager (NPM) supports the Brita Business Unit (BU) by conducting medium term (3-24 months) supply planning and supply matching analysis, identifying key tradeoffs and framing potential strategies to achieve long term business objectives.
Provide strategic thought leadership and own the long-term supply sufficiency process, driving cross-functional collaboration and managing budgets within financial cycles.
Serve as the on-site liaison for the Brita IBP team, facilitating communication, coordination, and engagement across the team as well as acting in a mentorship capacity.
Define inventory policy and working capital requirements through end-to-end capacity planning over planning horizon, rough cut capacity planning during S&OP cycles, and scenario planning.
Rebuild a robust process to monitor and facilitate lifecycle and portfolio management, including innovation, discontinuations, and managing against D&D targets and Financial Budgets, in coordination with Finance and Supply Chain resources.
Own medium term supply plan based on demand forecast, network capacity, and strategic inventory decisions.
Plan against demand scenarios, highlighting risk and opportunities, capacity tradeoffs, and P&L implications.
Develop supply narrative to communicate with leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
Monitor and adjust constraints throughout planning cycle to ensure accuracy in plan.
Review KPIs and plan performance, identifying root cause if we are off-track and recommending corrective actions as necessary.
Assess network bottlenecks and options to resolve in a long-lead time business with unique challenges of an international supply chain.
Coordinate supply planning efforts for multiple new adjacency launches within the next few fiscal years.
Strengthen the Brita IBP team, providing valuable thought leadership, mentorship, and serving as a delegate of the IBP Lead for Leadership team meetings.
Maintain close contact with S&OE Manager & Inventory Planner to understand the impact of short-term issues that could create risk to long-term supply plan.
Act as primary IBP commercialization lead for the Supply Chain Squad and Innovation teams, to ensure end-to-end business decision making and execution.
Communicate proactively to understand key supply plan inputs (marketing, sales, finance) to improve quality of plans.
Actively foster and contribute to community of like-practitioners.
Coach and develop IBP team/commercialization project teams indirectly to upskill teammates.
Develop and own assumptions for business budget processes, including sourcing plans, inventory targets, plant production and warehousing requirements for each budget cycle.

Requirements

What you’ll need

BS/BA Degree from an accredited institution in Engineering, Supply Chain or Predictive Analytics
10+ yrs industry experience, CPG / fast moving consumer preferred
Recent S&OP / supply planning experience
Operational experience in supply chain operations (e.g. manufacturing, logistics, DC ops, inventory planning)
Experience using advanced planning software tools including ERP / supply planning tools, with preference for Kinaxis & SAP S4Hana & NetSuite
Experience interfacing and influencing across multiple functions
Strategic Thinking: Develop forward-looking business strategies from diverse data.
Financial Acumen: Manage working capital and P&L impacts of supply chain decisions.
Data Mastery: Build inventory strategies, understand capacity constraints, diagnose bottlenecks, and analyze trends.
Technical Skills: Proficient in ERP and supply planning tools, digital dexterity and fluency.
Customer Operations: Adapt to changing demand drivers.
Supply Chain Management: Strong foundation in network management, inventory strategy and operations.
Leadership & Soft Skills: Lead and influence in proactive, reactive and ambiguous situations. Set priorities and meet deadlines in fast-paced environments. Analyze, identify root causes, and solve problems. Synthesize disparate data into coherent, forward-looking business strategies and tactics for advancing business priorities, with management/LT support. Communicate exceptionally well. Build strong cross-functional relationships across multiple levels. Manage, train, and develop team indirectly. Adapt quickly and network cross-functionally. Influence without authority. Exhibit intellectual curiosity and tenacity. Solve problems creatively.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Robust health plans
Market-leading 401(k) program with a company match
Flexible time off benefits
Inclusive fertility/adoption benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

supply planningS&OPcapacity planninginventory managementfinancial analysisdata analysisstrategic planningproblem solvingbudget managementnetwork management

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationcross-functional collaborationmentorshipstrategic thinkinginfluenceadaptabilityanalytical skillsteam developmentcreativity