Sr. Manager, Supply Chain Planning Management

At Alcon, we are driven by the meaningful work we do to help people see brilliantly. We innovate boldly, champion progress, and act with speed as the global leader in eye care. Here, you’ll be recognized for your commitment and contributions and see your career like never before. Together we go above and beyond to make an impact on the lives of our patients and customers. Are you ready to join us? We foster an inclusive culture and are looking for diverse, talented leaders to join Alcon. This role sits within Alcon’s Supply Chain function and provides enterprise leadership for demand strategy, planning excellence, and decision‑enabling insights, ensuring products are delivered efficiently and reliably so that people can see brilliantly. The Senior Manager, Sales & Operations Planning (SOP) is accountable for setting the standard for SOP demand planning, governance, performance, and continuous improvement. Responsibilities Set direction and govern the demand planning component of the SOP 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 cycle‑over‑cycle 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 cross‑functional 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 SOP cycle. Lead governance of new product launch demand within SOP, 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 item‑level demand and inventory impacts, governing phase‑in/phase‑out 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 SOP cycle. Align strategically with OE leadership to translate approved demand plans into executable signals, communicate implications, and ensure an effective handoff from planning to execution with closed‑loop feedback. Own demand performance management across forecast accuracy, bias, plan stability, and inventory health—diagnosing root causes, setting targets, and driving corrective actions with accountable stakeholders. Lead executive communication for SOP 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 tools—standardizing 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. Qualifications Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent, or high school +15 years; associate +11 years; master’s +4 years; PhD +3 years. Fluent in reading, writing, understanding, and communicating in English. 7 years of relevant experience. 5 years of demonstrated leadership. Benefits Alcon provides a robust benefits package including health, life, retirement, flexible time off, and more. Equal Opportunity 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr Alcon MX