Associate Director, Inventory Optimization Leader

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Your role at Clorox:

The Inventory Optimization Leader role will own inventory governance, capability building and adoption, and value tracking and capture, for inventory across the entire enterprise. Sitting within the IBP Center of Excellence, the role will acts as an advisory leader to BUs and Functions, monitoring inventory status and progress against goals, providing recommendations to BU and Functional Leaders on where and how to drive greater scale and pace of progress across near, mid, and long term horizons. The role will champion tools and process innovation (design, build/source, deploy, and adopt) to balance inventory optimization with standardization, governance and compliance, enabling Clorox to operate at the leading edge of inventory management. Ultimately, this role will be a critical enabler for and strategic leader in Clorox’s pursuit of managing inventory more efficiently.

In this role, you will:

Inventory Strategy & Governance

• Align each BU with enterprise inventory strategies / targets (e.g., target policies by segment, service levels, replenishment logic) that support business priorities, and develop clear path to deliver.
• Develop and enforce inventory parameter setting frameworks (e.g., safety stock, order quantities, reorder points) in alignment with key considerations from CLX Inventory Optimization playbook (e.g. demand variability, supply risk).
• Partner with BU IBP, Commercial, Finance, and Supply chain teams to align inventory targets with sales goals, promotions, product lifecycle transitions, etc.
• Ensure each BU IBP team adopts the Clorox-standard, inventory setting process and tools

Process & Capability Building

• Champion tools and process innovation (design, build/source, deploy, and adopt) to balance inventory optimization with standardization, governance and compliance, enabling Clorox to operate at the leading edge of inventory management.
• Deploy the right processes and tools that enable the BU to proactively manage inventory to the targets (e.g., inventory health, SLOB, etc.)
• Promote inventory planning maturity and lead continuous improvement of Clorox inventory process and tools to drive more accurate supply planning, reduce effort, and sustain the adoption
• Serve as a key business owner for system enhancements related to inventory planning (e.g., SAP, Kinaxis).  If implementing entirely new tools specific to inventory management, this role will also operate as the Product Owner for that tool/s, in service of the Clorox Global Capability and Product Models.
• Lead capability-building efforts, including tools, training, and playbooks for planners and cross-functional partners. This will range from design and development, through launch, training, change management, etc.
• Lead automation of inventory processes to reduce manual effort and boost efficiency, in coordination with SC teams and SC digital transformation.  
• Develop and maintain strategic roadmap for Inventory Optimization, inclusive of tech / tools evolution.  Collaborate with business users, ranging from GMs and BU LTs to BU IBP and Manufacturing Teams, to gather user needs and gaps to define right prioritization of roadmap.
• Continuous exposure to and build expertise on best practices and thought leadership on inventory management, including monitoring and assessing emerging trends and technologies that may impact or be relevant to Clorox.
• Oversee / lead strategic projects with external consultants, to ensure delivery on-time, on-budget, and with the desired impact on capability building / evolution and value capture for the enterprise.

Performance Management & Advising

• Set right KPI targets and build / maintain dashboards to track inventory metrics, enabling E2E inventory visibility.
• Monitor inventory performance across BUs, assess areas for improvement, and recommend actions / adjustments to prioritize.
• Utilize new processes and tools to provide independent/objective analytics and insights to BUs and other functions into risks, issues, opportunities, tradeoffs and implications. Co-develop the actions to address these as part of each BU’s IBP process, and advise BUs on driving stakeholders alignment.
• Drive root causes analyses in BU teams of i