Director - Materials Planning & Inventory

Who We Are With over 100 years of expertise, the Duravent Group is a climate technology leader in the venting and air control industries—delivering high-quality, innovative solutions grounded in a customer-first mentality. We are building for the future with world-class manufacturing and continuous process improvements that ensure consistent quality, on-time availability, and scalable supply across projects of any size. Our family of 14 trusted brands—strengthened by strategic partnerships—provides comprehensive solutions for residential and commercial applications, helping teams consolidate vendors, maintain schedule certainty, and deliver durable, dependable results that set the standard for the industry. This Role: We are currently seeking a Director – Materials Planning & Inventory . This will be a full time, hybrid role based at our Grand Rapids, MI innovation center (hybrid = 2+ days/week in-person) What You Will Do: The Director, Materials Planning & Inventory is the enterprise functional leader responsible for materials planning standards, inventory strategy, planning capability, governance, and network-wide inventory performance. The position establishes the system of work used across facilities and drives consistent planning disciplines, policies, metrics, business reviews, and corrective actions. This role provides enterprise functional leadership, standards, governance, capability development, and accountability for outcomes. The role is broader than day-to-day inventory management and is designed to restore dedicated enterprise leadership over materials planning and inventory performance. How You Will Do It: Enterprise Inventory Strategy & Governance Develop and maintain enterprise inventory policies, segmentation, targets, and control frameworks. Establish governance for safety stock, reorder points, min/max settings, lot sizes, lead times, and related planning parameters. Define exception-management and approval processes. Align inventory strategy with service, growth, risk, and working capital objectives. Materials Planning Excellence Establish common materials planning, replenishment, scheduling, and execution standards. Develop standard work, planning calendars, review cadences, and role expectations. Drive consistent adoption of planning disciplines across facilities. Identify and address systemic process, data, and tool gaps. Inventory Performance Management Own enterprise visibility to DIO, turns, aging, excess, obsolete, slow-moving, and at-risk inventory. Lead root-cause analysis and corrective-action plans for material performance gaps. Drive inventory optimization initiatives across raw material, work-in-process, and finished goods. Report progress, risks, and required decisions to executive leadership. Functional Leadership & Capability Development Provide functional direction, coaching, and development to plant-based Material Managers and planning resources. Define competency expectations and training priorities. Lead an enterprise Materials Council and communities of practice. Support talent assessment, succession planning, and organizational capability development. SIOP & Cross-Functional Integration Represent materials planning and inventory in SIOP and related operating reviews. Translate demand, supply, capacity, and sourcing decisions into inventory implications and actions. Partner with Operations, Procurement, Finance, Sales, and Business Unit leadership. Escalate enterprise risks, trade-offs, and policy exceptions. Systems, Data & Continuous Improvement Establish data-quality expectations and governance for planning parameters and inventory master data. Support effective use of SAP, Oracle, planning applications, analytics, and future enterprise systems. Lead process improvement and automation opportunities. Develop consistent enterprise dashboards and performance reporting. What We’re Looking For: Required Qualification Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain M…

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