Senior Manager - Network Planning Process Excellence

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Your role at Clorox:

The Senior Manager – Network Planning Process Excellence owns and leads the enterprise Network Planning (NP) processes across long term (S&OP) and short term execution interfaces, driving the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) transformation to ensure Network Planning is embedded, consistently adopted, and executed with discipline and rigor across Business Units.
Serving as the senior process authority for Network Planning, this role partners with BU IBP leaders, Supply Chain Functional leaders, and IBP-Center Leaders (e.g. Associate Dir BP) to advance process maturity, align system capabilities (e.g., Kinaxis, Iris, PPDS), and ensure performance outcomes are tightly connected to service, inventory, cost, and stability objectives. The role is accountable for identifying and closing process, capability, and training gaps while enabling an integrated, proactive, and increasingly optimized Network Planning model.
This role includes direct people leadership responsibility for one direct report, with accountability for coaching, performance management, and capability development.

In this role, you will:

Enterprise Process Ownership & IBP Transformation

• Own the end‑to‑end Network Planning process framework across Business Units, including standards, governance, and best‑in‑class ways of working aligned with IBP principles.
• Lead the IBP‑driven evolution of Network Planning, ensuring strong integration between demand, supply, inventory, capacity, and financial planning horizons.
• Translate IBP strategy into practical, embedded Network Planning execution models, ensuring sustained adoption within BU planning and decision rhythms.
• Act as the senior process authority for Network Planning, defining and driving a clear roadmap toward an integrated, proactive, and increasingly optimized planning model.

Process Governance, Adoption & Discipline

• Establish and lead enterprise Network Planning process governance, including decision rights, escalation paths, and change management standards.
• Drive process standardization and consistency across Business Units while enabling fit‑for‑purpose flexibility where required.
• Secure adoption, discipline, and execution rigor by reinforcing expectations around cadence, data usage, decision quality, and accountability.
• Identify execution inconsistencies, behavioral gaps, and adoption risks, deploying targeted interventions to close gaps.

System Alignment, Metrics & Business Outcomes

• Partner closely with the Planning Product Managers to align Kinaxis and Iris planning system enhancements with enterprise process needs.
• Provide strategic input into the Network Planning capability and enhancement roadmap, prioritizing initiatives based on business impact, value‑complexity trade‑offs, and process maturity.
• Define and govern enterprise Network Planning performance metrics, ensuring clear linkage to service, inventory, cost, capacity, and resilience outcomes.
• Leverage analytics and insights to identify systemic process, capability, and training gaps and prioritize improvement investments.

Inventory, Capacity & Policy Enablement

• Partner with Manufacturing, Procurement, Logistics, and Inventory Planning teams to strengthen inventory, capacity, and deployment policies.
• Ensure Network Planning processes effectively balance service, inventory, cost, and operational stability across the end‑to‑end supply network.
• Enable consistent translation of strategic inventory and capacity policies into executable BU planning practices.
  Enterprise Process Ownership & IBP Transformation
• Own the end‑to‑end Network Planning process framework across Business Units, including standards, governance, and best‑in‑class ways of working aligned with IBP principles.
• Lead the IBP‑driven evolution of Network Planning, ensuring strong integration between demand, supply, inventory, capacity, and financial planning horizons.
• Translate IBP strategy into practical, embedded Network Planning execution models, ensuring sustained adoption within BU planning and decision rhythms.
• Act as the senior process authority for Network Planning, defining and driving a clear roadmap toward an integrated, proactive, and increasingly optimized planning model.
• Process Governance, Adoption & Discipline
• Establish and lead enterprise Network Planning process governance, including decision rights, escalation paths, and change management standards.
• Drive process standardization and consistency across Business Units while enabling fit‑for‑purpose flexibility where required.
• Secure adoption, discipline, and execution rigor by reinforcing expectations around cadence, data usage, decision quality, and accountability.
• Identify execution inconsistencies, behavioral gaps, and adoption risks, deploying targeted interventions to close gaps.

System Alignment, Metrics & Business Outcomes

• Partner closely with the Planning Product Managers to align Kinaxis and Iris planning system enhancements with enterprise process needs.
• Provide strategic input into the Network Planning capability and enhancement roadmap, prioritizing initiatives based on business impact, value‑complexity trade‑offs, and process maturity.
• Define and govern enterprise Network Planning performance metrics, ensuring clear linkage to service, inventory, cost, capacity, and resilience outcomes.
• Leverage analytics and insights to identify systemic process, capability, and training gaps and prioritize improvement investments.

Inventory, Capacity & Policy Enablement

• Partner with Manufacturing, Procurement, Logistics, and Inventory Planning teams to strengthen inventory, capacity, and deployment policies.
• Ensure Network Planning processes effectively balance service, inventory, cost, and operational stability across the end‑to‑end supply network.
• Enable consistent translation of strategic inventory and capacity policies into executable BU planning practices.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Act as a senior advisor and thought partner to BU IBP leaders, Supply Chain leadership, and functional stakeholders, influencing without direct authority.
• Provide direct leadership, coaching, and development for one direct report , ensuring alignment to enterprise priorities and capability growth.
• Proactively communicate with stakeholders to ensure Network Planning processes and systems continue to meet evolving business needs.

What we look for:

• Experience Preferred:
• Deep expertise in Network Planning, Supply Planning, S&OP / IBP , and integrated supply chain processes within complex, multi‑BU environments.
• Strong understanding of CPG supply chain operations , including manufacturing, logistics, inventory optimization, and capacity planning.
• Advanced knowledge of supply planning methodologies , inventory policy design, and trade‑off management.
• Experience defining and implementing enterprise‑level process governance and performance metrics .
• Strong analytical capability with the ability to synthesize complex data into actionable insights and decisions.
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders, drive adoption, and lead large‑scale process transformation.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and change leadership skills.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Operations Management, Supply Chain, Business Analytics, Engineering, or related field (MBA preferred).
• 8+ years of progressive supply chain experience , with CPG / fast‑moving consumer goods strongly preferred.
• Significant experience leading Network Planning, S&OP / IBP, or Supply Planning transformation initiatives in matrixed organizations.
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise process transformation and cross‑functional initiatives.
• Demonstrated people leadership experience, including coaching, performance management, capability development, and accountability for outcomes.

Workplace type:

The ideal candidate will be based out of either Alpharetta, GA, Durham, NC or Oakland, CA and reporting into the office 3x per week in accordance with the Hybrid 2.0 Policy.

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[U.S.]Additional Information:

At Clorox, we champion people to be well and thrive, starting with our own people. To help make this possible, we offer comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company match, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays depending on location), inclusive fertility/adoption benefits, and more.

We are committed to fair and equitable pay and are transparent with current and future teammates about our full salary ranges. We use broad salary ranges that reflect the competitive market for similar jobs, provide sufficient opportunity for growth as you gain experience and expand responsibilities, while also allowing for differentiation based on performance. Based on the breadth of our ranges, most new hires will start at Clorox in the first half of the applicable range. Your starting pay will depend on job-related factors, including relevant skills, knowledge, experience and location. The applicable salary range for every role in the U.S. is based on your work location and is aligned to one of three zones according to the cost of labor in your area.

–Zone A: $131,200 - $258,500

–Zone B: $120,300 - $237,000

–Zone C: $109,400 - $215,500

All ranges are subject to change in the future. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.

This job is also eligible for participation in Clorox’s incentive plans, subject to the terms of the applicable plan documents and policies.

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