Supply Chain Planning Manager

As a Supply Chain Planning Manager, you're responsible for balancing supply and demand across the supply chain. You're managing demand forecasting, inventory planning, production scheduling, and the S&OP process that brings it all together. Your job is ensuring the right products are in the right place at the right time.

Your day involves analysis, coordination, and decision-making. You might review forecast accuracy, then coordinate with sales on demand changes, then work with production on capacity constraints, then adjust inventory targets, then facilitate the weekly S&OP review. Planning is inherently cross-functional — you need to influence people you don't manage.

The hardest part is planning in the face of uncertainty. Forecasts are always wrong; the question is how wrong and in which direction. You need to build plans that are robust to variability while remaining efficient. The people who thrive here are analytically strong, comfortable with ambiguity, and effective at cross-functional collaboration.