Director - Inventory Planning

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Description

Reporting to the Managing Director of Supply Chain Inventory Management, the Director - Inventory Planning determines the strategy and provides direction for planning and provisioning of aircraft parts and cabin provisioning in support of the maintenance operation of cabins and fleets. This role is responsible for controlling inventory investment, including OEM versus USM, PMA, and OOPP decisions, and maintaining optimal inventory levels to support line maintenance, airframe overhaul, base maintenance, aircraft modification activities, and cabin provisioning. The Director provides financial oversight of spending and inventory carrying cost.

- Develops and leads the execution of strategy for adequate planning and provisioning of all parts delivered by the Supply Chain team to customers across Tech Ops. Collaborate with stakeholders including Technical Operations, Global Procurement, Marketing, and Inflight.

- Directs the team that coordinates daily strategic adjustments to station inventory levels for rotable and expendable inventory assets to support the operation. Responsible for analysis and establishment of system protection levels, allocation and ROP monitoring, inventory lifecycle management, service level commitments, fleet or schedule variation adjustments, and performance against plan.

- Responsible for deploying a structured approach to develop, implement, and adapt new planning methods and tools. Develop inventory requirements and alternatives and make sound recommendations in support of customer and business plans, providing actionable insight into short- and long-term forecasts for budgetary planning.

- Owns forecasting and planning for onboard cabin items by identifying the demand drivers that best correlate to future demand. Directs monitoring of replenishment orders for cabin provisioning to ensure products arrive at distribution points at the right time to prevent shortages in stations around the world and manage related shipments and budget responsibilities.

- Directs all aspects of the Asset Verification function, including meeting annual regulatory goals, tracking inventory, and ensuring data integrity for scrap transactions.

- Develops and manages the data science and business technology teams that add quantitative sophistication to business decisions by turning data into information and information into insight. Teams build, refine, maintain, and manage operational tools and systems to automate more business processes.