Supply Planning Transformation Lead

About the Role

The Fountain Group is currently recruiting a Supply Planning Transformation Lead for a leading client, offering a fully remote contract position requiring 15% to 35% travel to manufacturing facilities. This role is ideal for an experienced leader to spearhead the global rollout of a Future Focused Planning program across multiple manufacturing sites, primarily within the United States in the EST and CST time zones. The position involves managing a team, collaborating with senior manufacturing site leadership, standardizing processes, and promoting organizational adoption of a new Target Operating Model (TOM).

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation of a new Supply Planning Target Operating Model across various manufacturing locations in a global region.
• Manage and mentor a team of Supply Planning Transformation Specialists, offering daily leadership and support.
• Drive the adoption of standardized supply planning processes, ensuring sites are prepared and engaged for long-term success.
• Work closely with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Operations, Procurement, Quality, Engineering, and Site Leadership to overcome challenges and meet key milestones.
• Monitor deployment schedules, manage risks, track milestones, and provide executive-level status updates.
• Lead structured change management efforts to embed new planning procedures and working methods.
• Collaborate with global program leadership to enhance deployment strategies, process playbooks, and standards.
• Share and apply best practices across all manufacturing sites to ensure consistent execution.
• Influence cross-functional stakeholders in complex matrixed environments without direct authority.
• Support continuous process improvements following deployment.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, Operations, or related fields.
• At least 8 years of supply chain planning experience in large pharmaceutical companies or comparable medical device firms.
• Proven experience managing multi-site manufacturing within global networks.
• Demonstrated leadership in managing and developing staff.
• Extensive expertise in leading end-to-end supply chain transformations, TOM deployments, or enterprise planning implementations.
• Strong knowledge of supply chain disciplines such as Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), Integrated Business Planning (IBP), Master Production Scheduling (MPS), Capacity and Material Requirements Planning (MRP).
• Hands-on experience with enterprise planning systems like Blue Yonder (preferred), SAP IBP, SAP APO, JDA, Kinaxis, OMP, or similar Advanced Planning & Scheduling (APS) software.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing capabilities, especially with executive leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Willingness and ability to travel 15-35% during deployment phases.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience deploying APS solutions across multiple manufacturing sites.
• Formal change management certifications such as Prosci, ADKAR, or APMG.
• Track record in creating deployment playbooks, governance frameworks, and standardizing planning processes.
• Master's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, or Business.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal applicant has a senior leadership background in supply chain planning within Big Pharma, showcasing a successful record of leading multi-site planning transformations, influencing executive stakeholders, managing teams, and achieving measurable enhancements in planning efficiency and organizational readiness.

Additional Information

Applicants should clearly demonstrate on their resumes experience with:

• Big Pharma supply chain planning (8+ years)
• Leadership of direct reports and cross-functional teams
• Multi-site manufacturing planning experience
• Complete supply chain transformation or TOM deployment experience
• S&OP, IBP, MPS, MRP, and Capacity Planning expertise
• Usage of Blue Yonder, SAP IBP/APO, JDA, Kinaxis, OMP, or similar platforms
• Strong change management and stakeholder engagement skills
• Availability for regular manufacturing site travel

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