# Senior Manager of Planning and Procurement - 46794527361

> Activate Talent · Philippines (Remote) · — · Posted 2025-12-15

**Workplace:** remote

## Description

**Job Title:** Supply Chain & Operations Lead  
**Job Type:** Full-time / Remote  
**Work Hours:** PST

**Job Overview:**

We’re helping our client find a Supply Chain & Operations Lead to own end-to-end supply planning, purchasing, vendor management, and operational data integrity. In this role, you will balance product availability with financial discipline while driving accountability, precision, and continuous improvement across operations.

### Responsibilities:

**Accountability**

-   Drive accountability for balancing product availability with financial discipline, minimizing excess inventory and obsolescence risk.
-   Foster a culture of ownership, precision, and continuous improvement across the operations team.
-   Lead weekly operations meetings and cross-functional reviews to align on priorities, capacity challenges, risks, and decisions.

**Supply & Material Planning**

-   Oversee end-to-end supply and material planning to ensure on-time, in-full product availability across all channels.
-   Translate demand forecasts into actionable supply plans and production schedules for primary, secondary, and finished goods.
-   Build and maintain advanced Excel-based models to forecast supply, assess capacity, and analyze inventory positions to support financial and operational decisions.
-   Set and manage safety stock targets, review inventory positions, and proactively adjust plans as demand or capacity changes.
-   Stay closely involved with packaging and artwork changes to proactively manage inventory levels, reducing the risk of obsolete components or finished goods while avoiding stockouts.
-   Partner with Product Development and Marketing on launch readiness, packaging transitions, and post-launch execution.

**Purchasing, Invoicing & Financial Oversight**

-   Oversee all purchasing activities, ensuring alignment with supply plans, budgets, and lead-time requirements.
-   Review and approve all purchase orders internally and facilitate executive approvals as required.
-   Oversee the invoicing process, ensuring timely, accurate invoice creation, review, and coordination with Finance for processing and payment.
-   Track PO and invoice performance, pricing, and OTIF delivery to ensure supplier accountability.
-   Manage budgets for contract manufacturing, components, and samples, and communicate variances and risks to Finance.
-   Support end-of-month close by ensuring operational data, cost inputs, invoicing records, and inventory valuation data are accurate and complete.

**Vendor & Supplier Management**

-   Build and manage strategic relationships with contract manufacturers and packaging suppliers to ensure reliability, flexibility, and performance.
-   Participate in and contribute to weekly supplier calls, driving decisions, mitigating risks, and aligning on next steps.
-   Organize quarterly business reviews and serve as the escalation point for performance or capacity issues.
-   Anticipate and resolve capacity constraints in alignment with demand plans and business priorities.

**Data Governance & System Accuracy**

-   Own the integrity and accuracy of all operational data, including item master, BOMs, costs, and supplier records.
-   Ensure ERP system reliability to support planning, forecasting, reporting, and decision-making.
-   Collaborate with Finance to ensure all operational data is accurate, complete, and compliant with internal standards for reporting, costing, and valuation.
-   Validate the accuracy of new SKUs, BOM changes, packaging transitions, and system updates.

**Logistics & Fulfillment Coordination**

-   Partner closely with logistics and fulfillment teams to align supply plans with warehousing, shipping, and delivery requirements.
-   Anticipate downstream impacts of capacity or supply changes and coordinate mitigation strategies.
-   Ensure smooth coordination between planning, procurement, invoicing, logistics, and customer service to deliver seamless operational execution.

## Requirements

**Qualifications & Experience**

-   Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business Administration, or related field; MBA preferred.
-   8+ years of progressive experience in supply chain or operations, with deep expertise in supply planning, purchasing, invoicing, vendor management, and data governance.
-   Proven ability to manage and build advanced Excel-based models to support planning, forecasting, and financial decision-making.
-   Hands-on experience with ERP systems (Cin7, NetSuite, or similar), including item master governance and BOM accuracy.
-   Demonstrated success in supplier performance management, capacity planning, and cost optimization.
-   Strong analytical skills and the ability to make data-driven decisions in dynamic environments.
-   Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including facilitation of executive decision-making.

## Apply

[Apply at Activate Talent](https://apply.workable.com/careersactivatetalent/j/0C02C35310/apply)

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