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Senior Manager Supply Chain

Your role: As Senior Manager Supply Chain you will lead a team that provides meaningful data and analysis in forecasting, capacity, long range planning and network optimization that helps maximize margin and drive network optimization for Ardent Mills. You will be responsible for the use of algorithms, analytics, historical performance, and customer insights to drive accuracy in the Forecasting and Demand Planning process.

As a leader and people manager, the Ardent Mills Values of trust, serving, simplicity, and safetywillguide your decisions. Youwilllisten, learn, and serve your team members. Youwillenable your team to deliver superior business results by constantly learning, reinventing, and challenging yourself to do better. Youwillinspire people to achieve things they never thought possible. To succeed, you must be able to: Deliver results in first-time situations by inspiring others and working to earn trust every day. Serve others with understanding, respect, and care. Operate with simplicity, clarity and transparency. Deal with and drive change. Organize, prioritize and own multiple tasks while meeting or exceeding deadlines. Learn and apply new technology, and share your knowledge with others. Above all you will be expected to carry out all your activities with reliability, integrity, compliance and in a safe, environmentally responsible, and efficient manner.

Your responsibilities: Supply Chain Leadership- Work independently with guidance to solve complex problems with technical solutions. Lead a team of 2-4 direct reports. Provide tactical support for daily execution of the team and identify growth areas to expand team members skills. Use influence in the larger business to positively impact results. Understand external factors and their bearing on the total Ardent Mills business (ie. USDA report) Analytics Champion Continuous Improvement efforts and be relentlessly curious to push for simplicity, innovation, and automation informed by Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Lead the development of dashboards, scorecards and reports that drive insights Leader for the TnL annual budget process Forecasting/Demand Planning Utilize inputs such as AOP, Unconstrained Sales Forecast, historical performance and forecast algorithms output to develop a demand plan that brings insights and stability to our mill network production plan. Develop best in class processes to work alongside Sales to improve customer forecasting inputs Develop and analyze capacity utilization, runtime and demand planning views Network Optimization Takes a broad perspective and leverage technology to drive insights and priorities which guide the capital planning and long-term logistics planning approach. Work with a cross functional team to drive supply optimization by identifying and executing least cost / maximum profitability distribution strategies informed by modeling tools. Ensure development and implementation of the strategic pricing and network optimization data, analytics and process Support development of margin strategies at macro and micro level in-line with business strategy. This involves helping to evaluate the Annual Operating Plan against market indicators, business strategy, internal variables & open opportunities Sales Enablement - Work closely with Pricing, Logistics, Sales, Tech Services and Operations to determine optimal approach /source for customer demand. Support internal/external capacity utilization inputs and reports Freight optimization and support for customer negotiations

Essential skills and experience: Bachelor's degree and minimum 6 years supply chain, operations, sales or grain risk/merchandising experience. 8-10 years preferred. Exceptional technical skills, ability to pull/analyze data from multiple systems with an emphasis on Excel and PowerBI Self-starter with a high degree of energy and passion; ability to ef ectively multi-task and prioritize Tolerance and appetite for ambiguity and risk; ability to make tough decisions with less than perfect information Collegial/collaborative style; demonstrated ability to work closely with others to conceptualize, test, and implement new ideas using change management proven approaches. Strong written and verbal communication skills Ability to coach and develop both individuals and teams Ability to handle difficult conversations with grace while educating and creating bridges that build the partnership with customers

Good to have: Deep understanding of customer market behavior and the capabilities of Ardent Mills plants Deep Customer insight- Understanding of Customer economics, value drivers, and decision drivers Microsoft GP/365, SQL and/or Salesforce Forecasting and/or modeling management software experience 3-5 yrs experience leading a team of direct reports Firm grasp of critical technical skills, chiefly risk... For full info follow application link.

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