Senior Director, Planning Process

Sr. Director Planning Process

We are seeking a Sr. Director of Planning Process (Sr level based on experience) responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing the Planning Processes that drive Anduril’s global planning operations. In this position, you will oversee the development and adoption of scalable planning processes that ensure efficient, secure, and compliant demand, supply, materials and production planning within the Divisional Planning teams. This role is critical to allow our divisions to seamlessly coordinate across engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, finance, and deployments, ensuring that Anduril systems are delivered on time and operate flawlessly in mission-critical environments. This role is ideal for a seasoned process and systems driven leader who thrives in high-growth, high-stakes environments and is passionate about optimizing planning processes to support mission and organizational success. You will directly impact Anduril’s ability to rapidly and effectively deliver critical defense solutions worldwide. An individual with a strategic mindset, driven by the challenge of scaling and refining processes and teams, and who flourishes in a high-stakes, mission-oriented setting will excel in this role.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Develop & Optimize Planning Processes
• Design and implement scalable, standardized S&OP, S&OE, and Materials Planning processes to ensure efficiency, quality, and repeatability across the company.
• Establish requirements and new use cases that push our processes and tools to be a game changer for the company, and ensure seamless coordination between supply chain, manufacturing, engineering, finance, and deployments.
• Set the standards, then identify gaps against that standard across the company using data, scorecards, metrics under full transparency. Identify (create, copy, etc) elegant solutions to complex problems and dissect all components in order to drive change and improvements, ensuring alignment with divisions and business units.
• Support the expansion of the Central Planning team and tools to enable our businesses for real-time decisioning and risk mitigation as we hyperscale across the enterprise.
• Drive Process Integration
• Partnering with Planning Systems Leadership, enable the integration and adoption and integration of various digital tools and analytics platforms to enhance operational effectiveness and accuracy.
• Ensure that Planning has a seat at the table and voice on multiple ongoing companywide initiatives impacting planning.
• Establish and run standardized Planning processes for new Business Lines and acquisitions (including staffing decisions, process implementation/adoption, and tools usage) until Business Line is capable to assume ownership.
• Spearhead the development of a centralized knowledge repository for existing and new processes, best practice sharing, guidelines, and onboarding training materials across the organization.
• Partner Cross-Functionally & Promote Stakeholder Engagement
• Build a team to serve as the primary interface between engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, and deployments to align planning strategies, planning tools, and process inputs/outputs with business and customer needs.
• Develop and maintain planning playbooks and SOPs, ensuring consistency and adherence to best practices.
• Work with internal and external partners to implement scalable, effective, and cost-efficient planning solutions.
• Build Team Leadership & Development Pathways
• Build and lead a high-performing planning process team, fostering a culture of excellence, innovation, speed, accuracy, and urgency.
• Represent Planning needs, requirements, and deliverables within executive leadership forums.
• Be an integral part of setting the 2-5 year strategic plan for your function and team.
• Collaborate, lead, and positively influence cross-functional stakeholders to achieve results that are in the best interest of processes & strategy at all levels.
• Provide mentorship and training to ensure team members are equipped with the technical and operational expertise to execute at the highest level.
• Develop standardized onboarding and training programs for teams to improve operational effectiveness and consistency.
• Maintain leadership effectiveness and efficiency while demonstrating the adaptability, flexibility, and versatility required in our dynamic work environment.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s degree (or Bachelors with multiple years and role experience) in planning, supply chain, operations planning, operations finance, or a related field.
• 15+ years of direct leadership experience in S&OP, S&OE, Supply Chain (or eqivalent experience leading enterprise Supply Chain consulting engagements), or Materials Planning in a fast-growing industries
• 10+ years of proven experience in leading teams (direct or indirect) that manage the implementation of complex or large-scale planning systems and practices. (ex SAP, Oracle, IBP, Kinaxis, Manugistics, Palantir, etc)
• Expertise in Planning & Inventory Systems. Designing, implementing, adopting, and scaling complex systems and processes across an enterprise. (Kinaxis, IBP, Manugistics, etc).
• Experience in the practical integration/utilization of AI in a process environment. Automation of process, reporting, presentations to drive planning productivity.
• Track record of developing and implementing scalable, repeatable planning frameworks, processes, and strategies to improve efficiency and mission success within a global environment.
• Ability to manage directly and by influence across divisional and functional leadership teams.
• Exceptional communication, leadership, presentation, and interpersonal skills are required to enable effective change management with key stakeholders, other departments, and all levels of management.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.