Sr. Director of Supply Chain Planning Systems & Analytics

- Design and implement scalable, standardized digital capabilities to ensure efficiency, quality, and repeatability across planning.

- Establish tools, processes, and data that lights up end-to-end planning visibility, ensuring seamless coordination between supply chain, manufacturing, engineering, finance, and deployments.

- Identify elegant solutions to complex processes and dissect all components in order to identify changes and improvements required, ensuring alignment with planning processes.

- Support the expansion the of planning analytics team, systems, and tools to enable real-time decisioning and risk mitigation as we hyperscale across the enterprise.

- Lead the adoption and integration of ERP, Planning systems, and other analytics platforms to enhance operational effectiveness for planning.

- Ensure that ongoing company and production wide system integrations have Planning input and are rolled out smoothly, certifying that the capabilities needed to scale operations are accurate, understood, and implemented.

- Partner with software engineering teams to build and improve custom tools for all aspects of planning operations.

- Spearhead the development of a centralized knowledge repository for systems and processes, enabling standardized access to best practices, guidelines, and training materials across the organization.

- Build a team to serve as the primary interface between engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, and deployments to align planning strategies, planning tools, and process inputs/outputs with business and customer needs.

- Develop and maintain planning playbooks and SOPs, ensuring consistency and adherence to best practices.

- Work with internal and external partners to implement scalable, effective, and cost-efficient planning solutions.

- Build and lead a high-performing planning systems and analytics team, fostering a culture of excellence, innovation, speed, accuracy, and urgency.

- Represent Planning needs, requirements, and deliverables within executive leadership forums.

- Be an integral part of setting the 2-5 year strategic plan for your function and team.

- Collaborate, lead, and positively influence cross-functional stakeholders to achieve results that are in the best interest of processes & strategy at all levels.

- Provide mentorship and training to ensure team members are equipped with the technical and operational expertise to execute at the highest level.

- Develop standardized onboarding and technical training programs for teams to improve operational effectiveness and consistency.

- Maintain leadership effectiveness and efficiency while demonstrating the adaptability, flexibility, and versatility required in our dynamic work environment.

- Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, business/operations, or a related technical field.

- 15+ years of leadership experience in planning, supply chain, systems, or operations management, with a focus in technical services/support environment, and enterprise-level application integration, for a combination of both hardware and software solutions

- 10+ years of proven experience in leading teams that manage the implementation of complex or large-scale planning systems and practices.

- Expertise in Planning & Inventory Systems & Technology. Designing, implementing, adopting, and scaling complex systems and processes across an enterprise.

- Experience selecting and implementing technology-driven deployment solutions, including Planning Systems, ERP, WMS, MRP, Analytics, and real-time tracking platforms.

- Track record of developing and implementing scalable, repeatable planning frameworks, processes, and system strategies to improve efficiency and mission success within a global environment.

- Strong analytical skills and ability to use data-driven decision-making to optimize planning in a fast-paced, scaling environment.

- Exceptional communication, leadership, presentation, and interpersonal skills are required to enable effective change management with key stakeholders, other departments, and all levels of management.

- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

- Ability to relocate, if not already local to be onsite in Costa Mesa, CA.