Supply Network Planning Senior Manager

Overview

Reporting into the Cluster Head, the Cluster Value Stream E2E SP Lead oversees a team of Site Integrated Planners for the relevant Operating Unit and value stream. The role sets direction in line with business objectives to consistently deliver service and cost targets, enabling the team to generate feasible and holistic short-term finished goods, materials, and production plans across relevant PepsiCo sites and/or co-manufacturing plants.

The role is accountable for above-site decision-making where required, management of consolidated inventory projections to target levels, recovery actions for assigned KPIs, and escalation of major constraints or risks to Category Supply Planners, the CC FtS Lead, and the OU E2E Value Stream Supply Planning Lead. The role also upholds Supply Planning Foundations principles through daily and weekly value stream routines, including DMS, DDS, and PDCA, to drive cross-functional alignment, continuous improvement, and ownership

Responsibilities

• Oversee short-term finished goods planning for the relevant grouping of Site Integrated Planners across the 0-16 week horizon.

• Lead the team to generate feasible, holistic supply, materials, and production plans for relevant PepsiCo sites and/or co-manufacturing plants.

• Review and consolidate integrated supply and materials plans for relevant sites, ensuring alignment with site capabilities, dependencies, and constraints.

• Monitor assigned service, inventory, schedule, and obsolescence KPIs; identify off-target performance; and drive recovery through tracking, RCA, and improvement plans.

• Own management of consolidated inventory projections to target levels for the relevant sites, clearly differentiated from DRP accountability.

• Work with SIPs, Category Supply Planners, and Materials Coordinators where relevant to drive mitigation actions when supply constraints threaten customer service.

• Assess short-term feasibility requests escalated by individual Site Integrated Planners and support resolution of demand-supply imbalance exceptions.

• Attend and inform weekly Supply Control as part of the iS&OE process, raising short-term supply challenges and escalating major service or inventory risks to relevant Category Supply Planners and FtS leadership.

• Lead, coach, and develop Site Integrated Planners while balancing deep site knowledge with SIP fungibility, cross-skilling, and capability building.

• Uphold Supply Planning Foundations principles for the cluster through daily and weekly value stream routines, including DMS, DDS, and PDCA, to build alignment, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 8-11+ years of experience in supply chain planning, site integrated planning, materials planning, production planning, distribution planning, or related planning roles.

• Strong knowledge of site supply, materials, and distribution planning, with ability to connect production plans, material availability, customer service, inventory, and cost outcomes.

• Experience leading planners or coordinating planning teams, including coaching, qualification, cross-skilling, performance follow-up, and capability building.

• Strong understanding of MPS execution, exception management, short-term demand review, SKU/location pacing, and demand-supply imbalance resolution.

• Working knowledge of MRP for raws and packs, planning parameter maintenance, vendor collaboration, and material availability management.

• Ability to monitor KPIs, conduct RCA, build improvement plans, and drive corrective actions for service, forecast error/bias, inventory, and business waste topics.

• Experience working with Site Integrated Planners, Category Supply Planners, Materials Coordinators, co-manufacturing teams, market teams, and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Strong analytical and communication skills; proficiency in Excel and planning systems/tools expected.

• University degree required; MBA, Operations, Supply Chain, Logistics, Engineering, or equivalent qualification preferred