Supply Planning Excellence & CI Lead

Supply Planning Excellence & Continuous Improvement Lead Opportunity at Glanbia

Join this dynamic team focused on delivering better nutrition for every step of life’s journey!

The Opportunity

A vacancy has arisen for a Supply Planning Excellence & CI Lead. This is a permanent position and will report to the Planning Global Hub & CoE Lead.  

The Supply Planning Excellence & CI Lead shapes the continuous improvement roadmap for Supply Planning (Supply and Material Planning, Co-packing, MRP and Scheduling) across the markets in scope. The role sets improvement priorities, establishes governance and process standards, and partners with regional and site teams to strengthen planning capabilities. Through oversight of the improvement portfolio, the Lead ensures initiatives align with the overall capability strategy and deliver sustainable improvements in planning performance.

What You Will Do

• Shape and lead the supply planning continuous improvement roadmap, prioritizing global and regional opportunities aligned with the Global Planning Excellence strategy
• Provide strategic direction for CI initiatives across Supply & Material Planning, MRP, Scheduling, and Co‑packing, aligning regional and site teams on priorities, intended outcomes, and sustainable adoption
• Oversee the regional and global improvement portfolio, establishing governance to assess progress, address risks and dependencies, and ensure timely delivery of strategic outcomes
• Translate planning performance insights into capability priorities, process improvements, and best‑practice adoption across markets
• Define cross‑regional lifecycle management standards that balance product availability, obsolescence risk, and cost mitigation
• Evaluate complexity within regional co‑packing operations and shape improvement priorities to strengthen planning effectiveness
• Act as the global design authority for supply planning tools, setting standards for system governance, user roles, and access rights
• Guide the prioritization of planning system upgrades, enhancements, and change requests across markets, aligning technology improvements with capability needs and system stability
• Establish governance forums to review global planning performance, standards compliance, and improvement initiatives
• Guide cross‑BU resolution of systemic supply planning challenges, using performance insights to address root causes and scale sustainable improvements

What You Will Bring to the Team

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Supply Chain, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field
• 10+ years of experience in supply planning, planning excellence, or continuous improvement roles
• Deep understanding of Supply Planning, Material Planning, MRP, and Scheduling within an FMCG environment, with the ability to translate operational needs into process and capability improvements
• Experience guiding the adoption, governance, or enhancement of advanced planning technologies such as Kinaxis, OMP, o9, JDA, or similar platforms
• Ability to interpret planning data and analytics to inform strategic priorities, with an understanding of tools such as SAP IBP, APO, Oracle SCM, Anaplan, Tableau, Power BI, Python, R, SQL, or comparable technologies
• Experience defining and governing global master data standards (e.g., lead times, MOQs, planning parameters)
• Proven ability to define global process standards and guide the development and adoption of playbooks, templates, and training materials that build planning capability
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience aligning geographically and culturally diverse teams around shared priorities and change initiatives
• Ability to prioritize a complex improvement portfolio and balance near‑term business needs with long‑term capability development in an evolving environment
• A strategic continuous improvement mindset with the ability to translate data and insights into scalable improvements and sustainable business outcomes

Where and How You Will Work  

The opportunity will be based in Downers Grove or Chicago, Illinois with hybrid working arrangements available, offering you a greater choice in how you work and live, giving you a better work-life balance.

What We Would Like to Offer You 

The opportunity to develop your career on a global stage, continuous learning through an on-demand learning platform, and a competitive compensation package that includes staff discounts, a generous family leave policy, health and dental plans, a competitive salary, and 401(k). Glanbia provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in Illinois. This range may not be applicable to other locations. Factors that could be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, years of experience and comparison to current employees already in this role. The typical candidate is hired below midpoint of the range. Annual salary for Illinois - based employees for this role is $95,000 to $135,000.

About Glanbia  

Glanbia is a better nutrition company with three divisions: Performance Nutrition, Health & Nutrition, and Dairy Nutrition. Collectively, and with our partners, we offer an incredible breadth of expertise in nutrition. We employ a team of 5,800 people, work with global food and beverage companies, and sell our award-winning and market-leading brands and ingredients in more than 100 countries worldwide.

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a variety of candidates, we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

At Glanbia, our culture celebrates individuality, knowing that together we are more.