Senior Manager, Supply Planning

What you will do –

The Senior Manager, Supply Planning is responsible for leading the site's supply planning function and ensuring the delivery of an accurate, integrated supply plan that supports customer demand, operational performance, and financial objectives. This role serves as a key liaison between Commercial Operations, Manufacturing, and GQO, providing visibility into supply risks, opportunities, capacity constraints, and execution performance.

This leader is responsible for developing and leading a team of supply planning professionals while driving planning excellence, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement across the site.

• Lead and develop a team of Supply Planners, Senior Supply Planners, Associate Managers, and Supply Analysts through coaching, performance management, and talent development.

• Own the overall quality, execution, and performance of the site's supply plan to ensure alignment with customer demand, business objectives, and operational capabilities.

• Serve as the primary supply planning representative for the manufacturing site, communicating supply performance, risks, and mitigation strategies to commercial and operations leadership.

• Lead supply planning activities within the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process, including Executive Supply Reviews and cross-functional planning forums.

• Partner with Manufacturing, Finance, Engineering, Quality, Procurement, Commercial Operations, and Demand Planning teams to develop and execute strategic supply plans.

• Monitor and improve planning processes including capacity planning, master resource planning, inventory optimization, supply execution, and safety stock management.

• Drive proactive identification and mitigation of supply risks, backorders, capacity constraints, and service challenges.

• Provide data-driven insights and recommendations to support budgeting, capital planning, operational performance, and long-range capacity strategies.

• Establish and monitor key performance indicators, ensuring corrective actions are implemented when performance deviates from targets.

• Lead continuous improvement initiatives that enhance planning effectiveness, service levels, inventory health, and operational efficiency.

• Support the deployment and sharing of supply chain best practices across the broader organization.

• Ensure that KPIs are tracked, communicated and corrective actions taken when deviating and reported back to leadership in time.

Required –

• Bachelor’s degree in Business/Engineering/Supply Chain Management or related field

• 10+ years of professional experience

Preferred –

• Experience in Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Engineering, Operations, Commercial Operations, or related disciplines

• People management experience, leading a group or team preferred

• Demonstrate knowledge of project management software tools to support driving best practice project management

• ERP system knowledge; hands on within SAP/JDA/JDE/Oracle/PRMS platforms

• Experience supporting IBP, S&OP, Supply Planning, or Manufacturing Planning processes

$118,000 - $196,700 USD Annual

Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.