Associate Director, Planning Operations – Wash & Care & Jefferson City

Job Responsibilities

Reporting to the Head of Integrated Planning, Beauty & Wellbeing NA, this role leads a team of ~5 planners across Capacity, Execution, and Materials Planning and plays a critical role in shaping planning and operations capabilities across the network.

The Associate Director, Planning Operations – Wash & Care & Jefferson City leads supply planning for the largest portfolio in Beauty & Wellbeing and site planning operations for Jefferson City, the network’s largest liquids manufacturing facility.

This role connects supply strategy, innovation, and execution—ensuring product availability, inventory discipline, and strong service performance. As the senior planning authority for Jefferson City, the Associate Director balances multi–business unit priorities, drives capacity and run strategy decisions, and represents Beauty & Wellbeing at the site level.

Who You Are

• Strategic, enterprise-minded supply chain leader
• Strong integrator across Planning, Innovation, Factory Operations, and external execution partners
• People leader who builds high-performing, future-ready teams
• Digitally fluent and data-driven
• Clear communicator who translates complexity into action
• Proactive risk manager and continuous improvement leader

What You’ll Do

Wash & Care – Supply Planning Leadership

• Act as supply planning lead for Innovation and Strategic initiatives, defining execution-ready plans for Capgemini
• Provide strategic direction to Capgemini on run strategy, production priorities, materials utilization, and waste mitigation
• Own inventory execution strategy, including safety stock decisions and inventory value performance
• Lead constraint analysis and medium-term service enablement to protect customer service
• Present network capacity, volume, and risk insights to senior leadership

Jefferson City – Site Operations Leadership

• Own Rough Cut Capacity Planning across an 18-month horizon
• Define and deploy site run strategies balancing service, growth, and efficiency
• Serve as the final decision point on multi-BU planning tradeoffs
• Lead transitions excellence to minimize material loss during portfolio changes
• Advance digital material planning and Smart Touch adoption
• Dispatch rate and material availability
• Inventory health and model adherence
• Transition material waste
• Digital Material Planning and No-Touch MRP compliance

People Leadership

• Lead and develop planners across Capacity, Execution, and Materials Planning
• Drive accountability, insight quality, and decision speed
• Build an inclusive, performance-driven culture

Key Performance Indicators

Wash & Care

• Inventory target attainment.
• Innovation execution readiness.
• RCCP alignment and service risk mitigation.
• Smart-Touch and master data accuracy.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, engineering, business, or related field (MBA preferred).
• 8–10+ years of progressive experience in supply chain planning roles.
• Proven people and stakeholder leadership in complex environments
• Strong strategic and analytical capability.
• Hands-on experience with SAP, Kinaxis, Anaplan, Power BI, or similar tools.
• Demonstrated success leading change, transformation, and capability building.

Pay: The pay range for this position is $146,200 to $219,400. Unilever takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are utilized in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, qualifications and education, and other business and organizational needs.  

Bonus: This position is bonus eligible.  

Long-Term Incentive (LTI): This position is LTI eligible.  

Benefits: Unilever employees are eligible to participate in our benefits plan. Should the employee choose to participate, they can choose from a range of benefits to include, but is not limited to, health insurance (including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage), retirement savings benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, parental leave, sick leave, paid vacation and holidays, as well as access to numerous voluntary benefits. Any coverages for health insurance and retirement benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.  

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