Director, Supply Chain

Job Description

The Director, Supply Chain has a critical leadership role reporting functionally to the Chief Operations Officer. This position has responsibility for working with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure the right end to end Supply Chain Planning strategies, processes, and 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 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 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 of 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 weekly and monthly performance review forums 

• Responsible for monitoring 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 SIOP process for the respective portfolio, ensuring robust measurable short- and long-term 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 forecast 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 & ado