Sr. Director Planning Systems and Processes

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Job Function: Supply Chain Planning

Job Sub Function: Planning Strategy & Capabilities

Job Category: People Leader

All Job Posting Locations: Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Job Description:

Senior Director, Planning Systems & Processes

Locations: Approved DePuy Synthes Office Locations in USA and Europe

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Purpose:

We are searching for the best talent to join our Orthopedic team as Senior Director, Planning Systems & Processes.

The Senior Director, Planning Systems & Processes is the enterprise business leader accountable for defining and executing the global strategy, operating model, governance, and transformation roadmap for Supply Chain Planning systems, data, and standardized end-to-end processes across DPS. The role owns the business vision and value realization for Advanced Planning Systems (APS), the planning implications of Company Separation, and the transition from a fragmented application and ERP landscape to one integrated APS and one ERP-enabled planning model.

The Senior Director will partner with senior Planning, Supply Chain, Commercial, Finance, Digital, IT, Quality, and regional and site leaders to align investment priorities, simplify processes, establish common data and design standards, and deliver scalable capabilities that improve service, inventory, agility, productivity, and decision quality. This leader will provide executive sponsorship and business governance from strategy and solution selection through deployment, adoption, stabilization, and continuous improvement, while protecting operational continuity and regulatory compliance. The role will build and lead a high-performing global organization of process owners, product owners, program leaders, and system subject matter experts and will establish the foundation for advanced analytics, AI-enabled decision support, and the longer-term aspiration of autonomous planning.

The role will report to the Vice President, Supply Chain Planning, DPS, and will serve as a senior member of the Global Planning Leadership Team and as the principal business partner to SC&O Systems and Digital Enablement and IT for planning transformation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Set and own the multi-year global strategy, target architecture, investment roadmap, and value case for Planning Systems & Processes, aligned with the DPS business and Supply Chain strategies.
• Lead the business selection, design, implementation, and adoption of a single enterprise APS, ensuring demand, supply, inventory, distribution, capacity, scenario-planning, exception-management, and analytics capabilities support the future operating model.
• Partner with ERP leadership to define planning requirements and sequence the transition to one ERP, ensuring APS and ERP design decisions, master data, interfaces, controls, and deployment waves opera