**Country:** United States of America **Location:** CABRA: Bradenton Florida 8985 Town Center Parkway, Bradenton, FL, 34202 USA **Carrier** is the leading global provider of healthy, safe and sustainable building and cold chain solutions with a world-class, diverse workforce with business segments covering HVAC, refrigeration, and fire and security. We make modern life possible by delivering safer, smarter and more sustainable services that make a difference to people and our planet while revolutionizing industry trends. This is why we come to work every day. Join us and we can make a difference together. **Edwards,** a global leader in fire alarm, mass notification, and hazard warning system solutions. **Kidde** is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of fire safety products. Each day, we work to expand upon our legacy of innovation, providing advanced solutions to protect people and property from fire and related hazards. **About this role** **Edwards/Kidde** has an opportunity for an **Associate Director, Material Planning & SIOP** to manage the SIOP process for our brands and provide vision, leadership and direction to optimize our SIOP process. Primary responsibilities include evaluate and develop the process, leading a set of monthly decision-making processes to balance demand and supply, to integrate demand planning, financial planning, capacity planning and supply planning, and to link high level strategic plans with day-to-day operations. The **Associate Director, Material Planning & SIOP** is also responsible for ensuring that all parties are aware of the key business issues, reconciliation and recommendations developed, and kept informed of decisions made throughout the SIOP process. This pivotal role ensures alignment across the Sales, Production, Supply Chain, and Finance teams to deliver customer satisfaction, optimize inventory, and enable financial predictability. **The Associate Director, Material Planning & SIOP** synchronizes all the processes and functions, ensuring a unified approach to managing our product supply and demand. The **Associate Director, Material Planning & SIOP** is based in **Bradenton FL** on a **hybrid work model** and will include 10-20% traveling global and local. We value our people and offer an extensive benefits package, with financial rewards including health insurance, a retirement savings plan, and also lifestyle support with flexible working and parental leave. Plus, we’ll support your growth with paid-for external training programs and courses. We value our people and offer an extensive benefits package, with financial rewards including health insurance, retirement savings plan, and also lifestyle support with flexible working and parental leave. Plus, we’ll support your growth with paid-for external training programs and courses. **Key Responsibilities** + Function as the business leader and facilitator of the overall SIOP process + Facilitate regular SIOP meetings and ensure active participation from stakeholders; and monthly regional E-SIOP Reviews + Work cross-functionally to ensure that sales, operations, and inventory plans are aligned with financial growth objectives + Collaborate with regional marketing and sales teams to establish demand plans that are aligned to revenue plans + Responsible for converting demand plans to a long-term supply plan that takes into account capacity and material availability considerations. + Oversee the global capacity planning and long-term supply plans that meet customer requirements while optimizing plant efficiencies and inventory + Interact with the operations team to assess production capabilities and constraints + Identify and mitigate risks in the SIOP process through thorough analysis and proactive planning + Confirm that issues and imbalances, surfacing during the monthly cycle, are reviewed, resolved, or escalated + Lead discussions to review, resolve, or escalate issues in the most appropriate manner prior to the E-SIOP review + Ensure that key business issues are reconciled, recommendations proposed, and the information pack analyzed and prepared to effectively support the E-SIOP review + Guarantee full understanding of the significant financial implications of changes to the demand, supply, product, and project plans + Develop, implement, and optimize SIOP processes and tools + Define KPIs and regular reporting metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of the SIOP process + Foster forward-looking capabilities across a 3–5-year horizon; ensure that the demand, capacity and commit capabilities will meet growth’s objectives + Evaluate the feasibility of the SIOP supply plan + Identify gaps/risks to the committed supply plan and scenarios to resolve + Make sure of a full alignment of Demand/Supply/Financial Plans + Supervise customer on-time delivery and “days on hand” inventory improvement **Basic Qualifications** + Bachelor’s Degree + 10 + years of experience in Supply Chain, SIOP, Forecasting, Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Inventory Planning, Materials Management, Master Planning, or Scheduling **Preferred Qualifications** + Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or equivalent + MBA + Implement or lead SIOP processes in a manufacturing environment + Business acumen/knowledge, general management, and leadership capability to lead business or functional teams + Action-oriented, results-driven with strong analytical and problem-solving skills + English verbal and written communication skills + Work independently, collaboratively, and effectively manage multiple projects + Project management skills and experience + Business acumen specific to Inventory, Revenue, Units, and Margin **Additional information:** + This position doesn’t support immigration sponsorship RSRCAR \#LI-hybrid **Carrier is An Equal** **Opportunity/Affirmative** **Action Employer. 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