Associate Director S&OP; Excellence and Planning AnalyticsWir verwenden Cookies, um Dir ein besseres Surferlebnis zu bieten, den Webseiten-Verkehr zu analysieren und Inhalte zu personalisieren. Unilever Karriere## Associate Director S&OP; Excellence and Planning AnalyticsBewerben: Hoboken US HQ: Toronto, ON: Vollzeit: Heute ausgeschrieben: Enddatum: 15. R-1189059Earlier this year, Unilever announced an agreement to combine its Foods business with McCormick & Company, creating a scaled global flavour powerhouse. The proposed combination would bring together iconic Foods brands, including Hellmann’s and Knorr, with McCormick’s portfolio to create a global leader across spices, seasonings, condiments and complementary food categories, supported by strong retail and foodservice platforms. The transaction remains subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions, with completion estimated for mid-2027. JOB PURPOSE This role exists to strengthen how the North America Foods business plans, decides, and delivers across demand, supply, inventory, service, cost, and business waste. As Associate Director, S&OP; Excellence and Planning Analytics, you will lead the planning excellence and analytics agenda that connects business ambition with practical, reliable operating plans. You will help build a more resilient, data-driven, and collaborative supply chain that enables trusted Foods brands to serve customers and consumers with confidence. This is inclusive of planning technology, analytics, and process. You will be part of a team that believes planning is more than a process.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
In this role,



you will lead the development and continuous improvement of integrated planning and sales and operations planning practices across North America Foods (Retail and Foods Solutions; You will partner closely with Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Material Planning, Manufacturing, Finance, Customer Development, Marketing, and senior Supply Chain leaders to ensure the business has clear plans, robust governance, reporting/tools, and actionable insights to support growth, service, efficiency, and transformation.
* Ensure robust process and technology are in place to ensure demand, supply, inventory, service, cost, and financial assumptions are connected through clear business rhythms and decision-making forums.
* Partner with integrated planning teams to identify risks, opportunities, and gaps within planning technology/process and drive improvement plans. Identify / build business cases or drive cross functional process improvement.
* Strengthen integrated planning capability by improving processes, tools, routines, governance, and ways of working across the North America Foods planning community.
* Lead planning performance management, including the maintenance and creation and use of clear measures, scorecards, dashboards, reports, and insights that help teams make faster and better decisions. This can include modifying existing dashboards due to new business insights
* Drive continuous improvement, simplification, and standardization across planning processes to improve reliability, reduce complexity, and support scalable ways of working.




* Support the transition to the future Foods organization by helping design, build, and embed planning capabilities that enable business continuity from day one and maturity over time.
* WHAT THE FIRST YEAR LOOKS LIKE During the first year, you will play a visible role in building planning excellence for the future North America Foods organization. You will learn the current planning landscape, connect with key partners across the business, and help establish the routines, measures, and decision-making forums needed to support business continuity and performance. In your first few months, you will focus on understanding the end-to-end planning processes, key business priorities, current pain points, and transition requirements. You will build relationships with the planning community, data/tech teams, and cross-functional partners, assess existing tools and processes, and identify where stronger governance or simplification is needed. As the year progresses, you will lead improvements to planning routines, performance reporting, and sales and operations planning governance. You will help teams align on clear roles, timelines, inputs, decisions, and escalation paths, while supporting capability-building across the planning organization. By the end of the first year, you will have helped create a stronger integrated planning foundation for North America Foods, with clearer decision-making, improved planning visibility, stronger cross-functional alignment, and practical tools that support service, inventory, cost, waste reduction, and growth. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
* Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Business, Engineering, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
* Significant experience 10y+ in integrated planning, demand

📌 Associate Director S&OP Excellence and Planning Analytics (Toronto)
🏢 Unilever
📍 Toronto