North America Regional Supply Chain Manager

As North American Regional Supply Chain Manager , you will be accountable for the end-to-end North American supply chain, from demand and supply planning through production coordination, inventory deployment, logistics, order fulfillment and customer delivery. You own and continuously mature the regional S&OP / Integrated Business Planning process, ensuring one aligned demand, supply and inventory plan linked to financial targets, strategic priorities and executive decision-making. You will establish Best-In-Class Supply Chain Processes, set direction and manage activities for the North American supply chain team comprising: production planning, customer service, logistics and transportation, trade compliance and data & analytics. I’m interested! What will I get to do in this position? Lead the North American Supply Chain organization, define its strategy and objectives, establish an end-to-end performance management system covering planning, customer service, inventory, cost, productivity, working capital and resilience. Lead organizational change and establish ‘Best-In-Class’ Processes in the North American Supply Chain Management Organization: Analyze, map, identify with supply chain stakeholders performance gaps, develop a transformation roadmap and execute accordingly for benefits realization. Partner with IT and global process owners to translate business requirements into a prioritized digital supply chain roadmap. Provide business sponsorship and governance for system implementations, process enhancements, automation and analytics initiatives. Lead and manage North American region ongoing logistics operations to assure logistics support to ICL’s business needs while achieving constant logistics cost savings both via strategic optimization & improved real-time logistics coordination. Collaborate with the global supply chain management teams across the world, support synergistic and integrative collaboration to optimize the global ICL network. Optimize SC interfaces (e.g. to Sales, Operations, Planning, Procurement, Customer Service) to ensure alignment across ICL’s Supply Chain. Define SLAs to precise service levels and processes. Developing and implementing key business processes and KPIs associated with the sales and operations planning process (S&OP). This includes demand planning, production planning and raw material planning for strategic raw materials. Owns regional inventory strategy, policies and target setting, balancing customer service, supply resilience, shelf-life considerations, obsolescence risk and working capital. Establish differentiated inventory and service strategies based on customer, product and supply chain segmentation. Establish and maintain a regional supply chain risk management and resilience framework, including business continuity plans, critical material and capacity risk assessments, scenario planning and mitigation actions. Proactively identify and mitigate risks related to suppliers, production capacity, inventory, transportation, trade compliance and geopolitical or market disruptions. Drive the adoption of advanced analytics, automation and AI-supported decision-making across planning, inventory, logistics and customer service. Ensure adherence to applicable legal, regulatory and internal requirements relevant to regional supply chain operations, including trade compliance, safety standards and global supply chain processes. Business support for acquisitions including due diligence and pre- and post-close integration activities. What skills and experience do I need to be successful in this role? Bachelors degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration or Engineering. Masters degree a plus. 10+ years of progressive Supply Chain experience, preferably in an international food B2B or chemical industry environment, with 5 years of experience in a supply chain management role. Proven history and experience in developing and enhancing business proc…

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