Sr. Manager, Supply Chain Planning Management

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We foster an inclusive culture and are looking for diverse talented leaders to join Alcon. This role sits within Alcons Supply Chain function and provides enterprise leadership for demand strategy planning excellence and decisionenabling insights ensuring products are delivered efficiently and reliably so that people can see brilliantly. The Senior Manager Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) is accountable for setting the standard for S&OP demand planning governance performance and continuous improvement.

This role provides enterpriselevel leadership for demand planning and S&OP governance consolidating and constructively challenging crossfunctional inputs translating market dynamics into decisionquality insights and enabling timely executive actions. The Senior Manager serves as a strategic advisor to senior leaders balancing analytical rigor with business judgment to drive alignment accelerate planning maturity and strengthen accountability for outcomes.

This leader drives crossfunctional alignment across Commercial Finance and Supply Chain; challenges assumptions and scenarios; and delivers clear executiveready recommendations that enable the business to balance demand supply service and financial objectives across the 324-month planning horizon.

In this role a typical day will include:

• Set direction and govern the demand planning component of the S&OP process establishing disciplined inputs aligned assumptions and consistent enterprise outputs across the planning horizon.
• Lead enterprise demand analytics (trends forecast accuracy bias volatility) converting insights into prioritized actions that improve plan quality capability and planning effectiveness.
• Drive cycleovercycle executive insights into demand plan changes quantifying key drivers risks and tradeoffs and translating them into implications for supply inventory service and financial performance.
• Establish enterprise governance for planning master data (product hierarchies market/customer mappings calendars key assumptions) ensuring standards ownership and sustained data quality through crossfunctional alignment.
• Act as the senior demand planning leader and thought partner to Commercial and Finance aligning on demand drivers promotions portfolio changes and financial assumptions and ensuring decisions are captured and executed through the S&OP cycle.
• Lead governance of new product launch demand within S&OP aligning stakeholders on assumptions evaluating scenarios and integrating launches into the enterprise demand plan with clear risks and mitigation actions.
• Enable portfolio and rationalization decisions by assessing itemlevel demand and inventory impacts governing phasein/phaseout assumptions and ensuring smooth transitions with minimal service and financial disruption.
• Chair Demand Review discussions surfacing risks and opportunities recommending tradeoffs and driving timely decisions and ownership at each step of the S&OP cycle.
• Align strategically with S&OE leadership to translate approved demand plans into executable signals communicate implications and ensure an effective handoff from planning to execution with closedloop feedback.
• Own demand performance management across forecast accuracy bias plan stability and inventory healthdiagnosing root causes setting targets and driving corrective actions with accountable stakeholders.
• Lead executive communication for S&OP demand synthesizing complex data into concise narratives scenarios decisions required and action tracking for leadership forums.
• Sponsor and drive continuous improvement across process analytics and toolsstandardizing ways of working strengthening planning parameters and elevating organizational capability.

• Provide people leadership by coaching and developing planners and analysts setting clear expectations and performance measures building succession and capability plans and fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

• Lead GxP compliance and audit readiness for planning processes ensuring documentation integrity accurate records and adherence to SOPs and training standards.

What you will bring to Alcon:

• Bachelors Degree or Equivalent years of directly related experience (or high school 15 yrs; Assoc.11 yrs; M.S.4 yrs; PhD3 yrs)
• The ability to fluently read write understand and communicate in English
• 7 Years of Relevant Experience
• 5 Years of Demonstrated Leadership

How You Can Thrive at Alcon:

• Lead alongside highperforming teams in a culture that values collaboration accountability and continuous improvement.
• Grow your career through leadership development and meaningful enterprise impact.
• Join Alcons mission to provide outstanding innovative products and solutions to improve sight improve lives and grow your career!
• Alcon provides robust benefits package including health life retirement flexible time off and much more!

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ALCON IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER AND PARTICIPATES IN E-VERIFY

Alcon takes pride in maintaining an inclusive environment that values different perspectives and our policies are non-discriminatory in recruitment hiring training promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race color religion gender national origin age sexual orientation marital or veteran status disability or any other legally protected status. Alcon is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If because of a medical condition or disability you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process or in order to perform the essential functions of a position please send an email to and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

Required Experience:

Manager