Global Director, MP&L - Data Centers

Reporting to the General Manager, Data Center Operations, the Global Director, Materials Planning & Logistics will be the key architect of the Global Materials Planning Strategy for Data Center in Climate Solutions at Modine. The main objective of this role is to drive performance and profitability in the Global Data Centers business unit supply chain continuity for the growing Data Center market portfolio. This will be accomplished by fully developing and building out the strategy, team, and guiding processes/principles for materials management across the BU. The main functions are as follows:

Strategic Objective - Business Partnerships:

Work with the executive staff and VP/GMs to establish an end-to-end strategy for long-term planning of business performance and operational execution, ensuring customer delivery and plant operational performance.

Tactical Objective - Deployment/Implementation:

Working with the VP/GMs, factories, sales, applications engineering, and finance to build, deploy, and drive a digital transformation of the Data Center Materials Management process, including a global SIOP process, planner excellence dashboards, AI driven planning processes to standardize and simplify the planning processes.

The ideal candidate will be a hands-on problem solver who thrives in a fast-paced manufacturing environment and is eager to drive supplier accountability and operational excellence.

• Build out the process for hiring, developing and certifying a world class materials planning, demand planning and SIOP team to support the execution of the long-term Data Center strategy.
• Create the roadmap and work with IT on the supply Chain digital transformation
• Develop the Supply Planning team that will drive optimized inventory and material flows to enable plant performance.
• Integrate with the CI Teams to drive material flow excellence at the factories.

Planning Excellence:Responsible for creating a structured planning, training, and organizational development process to enhance the skills and abilities of factory performance.

Inventory Strategy:Create an end-to-end inventory management strategy (Raw/WIP/FG) and network optimization process that uses customer demand data as the basis of the analysis utilizing data and industry standard PFEP processes.

SIOP Leadership:Build and lead the implementation of a functional, simplified, digital SIOP process for Data Centers including the development and deployment of a holistic, Global (Portfolio/Demand Management/Supply Management) process for all 3 Business UBU's/Regions. This includes the overall development of a SIOP process.

• Team creation and development
• Training Materials/Development process/deployment actions
• Meeting structure and content
• Standardization and integration

Centralized Planning:Develop the strategy and then deploy a small, centralized organization (relieving some planning responsibilities from factories with overlapping suppliers) including a Supplier Fulfillment Leader (SFL) structure that will enhance and drive accountability and agility in the supply chain.

• Multi-site supplied
• Long lead time - International
• Historical poor performance
• Capacity constraint suppliers

Operations Master Data Management Standards:Collaborate with the BU sourcing, IT, etc. to dissect SAP and determine critical master data fields and keep those up to date and clean for improved planning performance.

Short-term - Supply & Demand Synchronization:Build out systems and processes for all Data Center sites to ensure alignment between supplier output and plant production schedules in while collaborating with planning teams to ensure suppliers have accurate forecasts and capacity plans.

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business Administration, Process Management, Engineering, or operations; MBA or advanced degree preferred
• 10+ years of experience leading Materials Planning/Demand Planning/SIOP in a manufacturing environment
• 5+ years of direct leadership experience in both hourly and salaried workforces
• Demonstrated application and experience in multiple disciplines in the following categories:
  • Materials Planning/PFEP
  • Production Control
  • Tactical Purchasing
  • Inventory Control
  • Demand Planning
  • Master Data Management
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills
• Comfort with extensive presentation and information data management skills
• Ability to draw on previous experience to teach and mentor teams across the globe
• Dynamic thinking and problem-solving skills
• APICS/CPIM or other industry standard Materials process certifications a plus
• Demonstrated proficient in Lean development and implementation preferred
• Travel required: Up to 50% including international and intercontinental, but work from home, if not based at one of the plant locations in Data Centers.