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Global Fulfillment Leader role enables end-to-end supply assurance across a global product portfolio, safeguarding customer delivery commitments and revenue outcomes. This position provides senior execution leadership within Supply Chain through prioritization, constraint resolution, and risk-informed decision support. Impact is measured by consistent execution against customer schedules, shipment plans, and business commitments.
How you will make an impact:
- Lead day-to-day supply assurance across assigned products and customer segments to protect scheduled shipment dates, project deployments, and shipment plan commitments.
- Drive resolution of supply, allocation, and distribution constraints through coordination with Supply Planning, Procurement, and Distribution teams.
- Execute established order promising and allocation frameworks while elevating data-backed recommendations for prioritization and trade-off decisions.
- Deliver executive-level summaries of supply status, delivery risks, customer impacts, and recovery plans.
- Perform revenue, risk, and opportunity analysis across firm demand, backlog, and quoted business to inform leadership decisions.
- Lead root cause analysis of service performance failures and recommend corrective actions.
- Influence cross-functional execution outcomes through data-driven insights without direct authority.
The must haves:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Finance, Business, or a related field.
- Experience: 8+ years of experience in Supply Chain with application across Supply Planning, Master Scheduling, Customer Order Promising, Supply Assurance, or Order Fulfillment.
- Experience with Kinaxis Rapid Response.
- Experience with MRP/ERP systems and adherence to planning standards.
- Application of advanced data analysis techniques using Excel to interpret large, complex datasets.
- Development of executive-ready presentations and written communication using PowerPoint.
- Execution in fast-paced, customer-driven environments requiring management of multiple concurrent issues.
Nice to haves:
- Experience with Oracle ERP.
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