Director, Global Sales, Inventory, & Operations Planning (SIOP)

COMPANY DESCRIPTION
At Beyond Meat, we started with simple questions. Why do you need an animal to create meat? Why can’t you build meat directly from plants? Thus, we make plant-based meats that allow families to eat more, not less, of the traditional dishes they love while feeling great about the health, sustainability, and animal welfare benefits of plant protein. Our goal is to bring exciting change to the plate—and Beyond.
The Director, Global Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SIOP) is a critical leadership role reporting functionally to the VP, Global Supply Chain. This position has responsibility for working with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure the right end to end Supply Chain Planning strategies, processes, and global SIOP are in place to support business and customer needs. These cross functional stakeholders include the Manufacturing Operations Leaders, Finance Leaders, Marketing and Sales Leaders, R&D Leaders, and the Supply Chain Leaders. This position is also accountable to drive comprehensive Supply Chain business metrics and ensures alignment of Supply Chain strategies with global and regional business strategies. The Director is accountable for end-to-end supply chain excellence (Inventory and Service levels and setting priorities & direction for Beyond Meat Operations).
A successful candidate in this role will need to establish foundational analytics and metrics to help implement planning and forecasting excellence to help drive growth and the execution of company-wide strategies. This role works closely with key stakeholders to resolve issues and strategize how to remove obstacles to success.  Building and driving operational excellence and focusing on continuous improvement across the enterprise is also a key aspect of this role.

TASKS, DUTIES, & GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Direct and coordinate Supply Chain (SC) strategies on regional/global supply chain planning and systems
• Drive harmonization of the processes and the organization of the teams 
• Ensure the supply chain network operates to meet the needs for assigned customers on a consistent basis. Key performance measures of this include Back Order, OTIF, Inventory, E&O & Forecast Accuracy
• Represent Supply Chain/ISC in the monthly performance review forums
• Responsible for developing a Global Inventory Strategy Process, ensuring the establishment of target inventory levels and mix to achieve management objectives for service levels, backorder incidence/duration and inventory
• In partnership with the Manufacturing Operations Leaders, responsible to develop and update Operations strategies that are aligned to the business strategies
• Drive volume requirements for manufacturing network
• Sustain the long-term planning strategy for Beyond Meat to ensure the right capital investments are done on time to meet business needs
• Drive the overall Operations/Supply Chain process optimization by identifying and implementing best practices to improve both internal and external Supply Chain service and efficiency metrics
• Lead the Global SIOP process for the respective portfolio, ensuring robust measurable short and long term global processes are utilized driving consensus amongst Sales/marketing, Value Stream Teams, Finance and Operations which is utilized to project and monitor business financial performance and operating plans. This includes budgeting, financial forecasting, inventory management, capacity planning and sourcing
• Ensure strong process improvement across SIOP and Demand/Supply Management
• Stay appraised and aware of future SC trends & adopt best SC practices; Support & Ensure best SC practice sharing mechanisms are in place
• Ensure business continuity for the projects that require planning preparation (e.g. seasonal build ups, contingencies associated to demand volatility and unforeseen conditions, etc.)
• Setup proper S&OP design that can be scaled as the portfolio grows and lead the roadmap and global deployment of the initiative
• Partner with Manufacturing, Process Development and Co-manufacturing to align on demand assumptions and capacity needs at internal manufacturing sites
• Support key strategic linkages and partnerships domestically and globally from a Supply Chain perspective
• Resolve routine conflicts efficiently with peers and superiors and escalates issues when necessary
• Identify the root cause of chronic issues, propose improvements to solve issues, reach consensus on plan, and align implementation and execution
• Partner with global sourcing to ensure supply plans align with strategic sourcing initiatives
• Participate, actively drive, and champion adoption of newly implemented systems, procedures and tools

Supervisory Duties

• Lead, manage, and supervise the S&OP team, accountable