Senior Manager, Product Supply Chain
Reynolds Consumer Products · Lake Forest, IL, US ·
- Seniority
- Senior
- Category
- Management
- Experience
- 5+ years
Overview
Join Reynolds Consumer Products…and Drive Your Career across a world of opportunities!
We currently have an opportunity for a Senior Manager Product Supply at our Corporate Headquarters in Lake Forest, IL.
Responsibilities
The Sr. Manager Product Supply provides strategic and operational leadership for end-to-end product supply, ensuring customer and business requirements are translated into reliable, cost-effective, and resilient supply plans. This role integrates demand, supply, capacity, inventory, manufacturing, procurement, and logistics decisions to optimize service, cost, cash, and risk. The position leads cross-functional governance, strengthens planning capabilities, and develops a high-performing organization that delivers sustainable business results.
You Will Have the Opportunity to Make Great Things Happen!
Product Supply Strategy & Business Partnership
- Lead the development and execution of product supply strategies aligned with business, customer, financial, and operational priorities.
- Partner with Commercial, Operations, Finance, Procurement, Innovation, and Logistics leaders to translate growth plans, portfolio changes, promotions, and customer requirements into executable supply plans.
- Provide enterprise recommendations and trade-off decisions that balance service, cost, inventory, capacity, working capital, and risk.
Integrated Planning & Performance
- Own governance and operating rhythms for demand, supply, inventory, capacity, and product availability, ensuring timely decisions and clear accountability.
- Establish and monitor key performance indicators; identify systemic constraints and sponsor corrective actions that improve service, forecast performance, inventory health, productivity, and cost.
- Ensure product supply plans are feasible across manufacturing, external suppliers, materials, warehousing, transportation, and customer-facing operations.
Product Availability & Customer Enablement
- Drive reliable product availability and responsive issue resolution to support customer commitments and profitable growth.
- Ensure new products, renovations, promotions, assortment changes, and business transitions are supported by disciplined supply readiness, risk assessment, and launch execution.
- Lead cross-functional response to material shortages or service disruptions, establishing fact-based priorities, recovery plans, and stakeholder communications.
Inventory, Cost & Network Optimization
- Optimize inventory policies and deployment strategies to improve availability while reducing excess, obsolescence, and working capital exposure.
- Lead initiatives to simplify and standardize planning processes, improve network utilization, and deliver sustainable cost and productivity benefits.
- Develop business cases, prioritize investments, and ensure product supply initiatives deliver measurable operational and financial outcomes.
Process, Data & Digital Transformation
- Champion effective use of data, analytics, planning systems, and automation to improve visibility, scenario planning, exception management, and decision quality.
- Establish consistent process ownership, decision rights, data standards, and controls across product supply activities.
- Lead adoption of new capabilities and ways of working, ensuring changes are embedded and sustained across functions and business teams.
Leadership, Risk & Talent Development
- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing product supply organization with clear roles, objectives, decision rights, and accountability.
- Build succession pipelines and functional capability through talent development, performance coaching, workforce planning, and knowledge sharing.
- Identify material supply, capacity, supplier, continuity, and execution risks; ensure practical mitigation and contingency plans are maintained in accordance with company policies, safety expectations, and applicable laws.
You Will Love It Here If…
- You listen, learn, and evolve
- You thrive in a fast-paced environment
- You put safety first, always
- You are passionate about collaboration, teamwork, and achieving shared goals
- You believe in treating all people with respect, operating ethically, and growing a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace
- You are committed to improving our impact on local communities and creating positive experiences
Qualifications
Education/Experience
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.
- Minimum of 8 years of progressive experience in product supply, supply planning, demand planning, operations, manufacturing, logistics, or a related discipline, including at least 5 years leading teams and major cross-functional initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience leading integrated planning and product supply execution in a complex, multi-site manufacturing, consumer products, or similarly scaled environment.
Preferred
- Master's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Operations, or a related field.
- Professional certification such as APICS CPIM, CSCP, or equivalent.
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Not a good fit but know someone who is? Please refer them! No unsolicited recruiter or agency inquiries, please. RCP affords equal employment opportunities to applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, disability status, sex, marital status, protected veteran status, pregnancy, national origin, genetics, genetic information, parental status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. RCP conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations.