The Global Value Stream Planner serves as the strategic integrator of global supply, production, and inventory performance across the enterprise’s value streams. This role ensures seamless alignment between customer demand, manufacturing capacity, and global inventory strategies — driving agility, resilience, and competitive advantage in the end-to-end supply chain.
The Global Value Stream Planner provides the foresight, analytics, and coordination necessary to deliver best-in-class service levels while optimizing working capital and operational efficiency. This individual plays a pivotal role in shaping the global supply strategy and enabling flawless execution across regions, plants, and product lines.
Organizational alignment/reporting line: This position reports to the Global Supply Chain leader
Responsibilities and Key Tasks:
Strategic Planning & Alignment
- Lead the development and execution of the global integrated supply plan for assigned value streams, ensuring full synchronization between demand, production, and inventory.
- Anticipate global supply and capacity challenges, enabling proactive decision-making and risk mitigation.
- Balance global production footprints to maximize flexibility, efficiency, and responsiveness.
End-to-End Supply Chain Optimization
- Balance global supply and demand through proactive scenario planning and constraint management.
- Identify and mitigate risks in capacity, materials, and logistics, ensuring continuity of supply.
- Lead initiatives to optimize working capital, reduce lead times, and increase supply chain flexibility.
Inventory, Capacity, and Network Optimization
- Define optimal global inventory strategies, replenishment policies, and safety stock parameters that balance service and cost.
- Manage capacity planning across global sites, ensuring alignment with customer commitments and operational capabilities.
- Identify and lead supply chain optimization opportunities, including make-versus-buy decisions, footprint optimization, and lead-time reduction initiatives.
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Serve as the central point of coordination between global and regional planning, procurement, manufacturing, and logistics teams.
- Lead regular value stream review meetings to align stakeholders on priorities, actions, and performance metrics.
- Support product lifecycle transitions (launches, transfers, and discontinuations) with integrated planning strategies.
Analytics, Systems & Continuous Improvement
- Leverage advanced planning tools (e.g., SAP IBP, Kinaxis, OMP, or equivalent) to enable data-driven decision-making.
- Analyze performance trends and identify opportunities to improve forecast accuracy, service level, and inventory efficiency.
- Apply lean and value stream mapping methodologies to eliminate waste and streamline planning processes.
- Champion best practices in Integrated Business Planning (IBP) across global operations.
Key Performance Measurements:
Customer Service Level (STS ship to schedule, STR ship to request)
Inventory Health (Turns / Days On Hand)
Past Due to Request (PDR)
Supply Plan Adherence and Production Schedule Attainment
Forecast Accuracy and Bias Reduction
Working Capital Optimization
Reuired Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations, Engineering, or a related discipline.
Experience:
- 7+ years of progressive experience in global supply chain planning, production planning, or materials management within a manufacturing environment.
- Demonstrated success managing multi-site or multi-region planning operations.
- Expertise in ERP and advanced planning systems (SAP APO, IBP)
- Proven ability to navigate matrixed organizations and influence across functional and geographic boundaries.
Skills & Competencies:
- Strategic thinker with the ability to translate vision into execution.
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement capabilities across all levels of the organization.
- Deep understanding of end-to-end value stream management principles.
- Professional certification (APICS CPIM/CSCP, Lean Six Sigma Green/Black Belt) highly desirable.
Travel expectations: 20% - 30 % of time
Please note: This position may involve working with technical data, technology, software/source code, hardware or other items (collectively “items) subject to U.S. and non-U.S. export control laws and regulations. Under these regulations, it may be necessary for TE to verify a candidate’s national origin and/or citizenship status to determine whether a U.S. or other government export license is required prior to releasing its technologies to the candidate. If TE determines that TE will require a license or will be prohibited by applicable laws from providing the candidate with items necessary for the performance of this position, then TE expressly reserves the right to either a) make an offer of employment contingent upon TE receiving required export licenses from the appropriate government agency, b) consider the candidate for a different position that is not subject to such restrictions, on whatever terms and conditions TE shall establish in its sole discretion, or c) decline to move forward with the candidate’s application.
