IBP Supply Planning Steward

Agilent Technologies•Wilmington, DE

1d•Remote

About The Position

Integrated Business Planning (IBP) brings together forecasting, planning, and execution across marketing, sales, finance, procurement, manufacturing, and customer service into a unified process. This integration ensures alignment across the enterprise, leading to superior customer outcomes. Agilent is building our enterprise planning capabilities to drive IBP across the business by establishing a centralized Planning Excellence Team (PET). This team will continue our Ignite IBP transformation journey which will strengthen our competitive advantage by enabling faster, more reliable planning. The IBP Supply Planning Steward role will bring key Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and S&OE (Sales and Operations Execution) capabilities to the PET team. As the IBP Supply Planning Steward, you will be responsible for ensuring consistent, high-quality supply planning by governing core supply planning standards, and enabling a reliable, integrated S&OE/S&OP process. Supports planners with modeling, capability building, and scenario analysis to drive feasible, aligned supply responses across the enterprise.

Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's Degree or equivalent.
Typically, at least 5+ years relevant experience for entry to this level.
Extensive knowledge and specialized expertise in planning or supply processes
Strong executive presence and leadership skills.
Demonstrated ability to assess complex business problems and deliver impactful results.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively engage with different levels of management.
Self-motivated and capable of operating independently.

Responsibilities

Lead the monthly supply review process, ensuring consistent structure, decision-making, and alignment across regions, sites, and product lines
Support modeling and analysis of supply capability (RCCP, inventory, constraints) to validate feasibility of the supply plan
Maintain and enforce supply planning standards, including master data parameters (lead times, capacities, planning calendars)
Provide global visibility to constraints and bottlenecks and escalate systemic risks to the Planning Excellence AVP
Ensure cross-functional scenario planning to resolve supply/demand imbalances and work with supply planners to identify recovery options
Support development of inventory policies and ensure governance adherence across the network
Coordinate continuous improvement in supply planning processes, templates, and maturity practices
Partner with planners and sites to improve accuracy, stability, and transparency of supply plans
Consolidate supply planning insights into reporting packages for S&OE/S&OP forums