Supply Chain Planning Solutions Architect

At Fortune Brands Innovations, we believe that our innovation and success are fueled by the passion of our people and the strength of our teams. Together, we work to fulfill dreams of home by aligning around common goals, being agile in the face of change, holding ourselves accountable, and acting with integrity and transparency. We succeed when everyone belongs and strive to build a Home for All where all associates can be their true, authentic selves at work. Learn more about our culture here. 

Job Location: This position is eligible for a hybrid schedule based out of Deerfield, IL. Effective mid-2025, Fortune Brands will transition to a new world-class campus in Deerfield, bringing together associates from across our U.S. offices, brands, and functions. The campus will offer vibrant workspaces for collaboration, along with amenities for dining, onsite daycare, fitness and recreation.

The Supply Chain Solution Architect will serve as a key designer of End-to-End supply chain initiatives aimed at building a competitively advantaged supply chain across FBIN. The Supply Chain Solution Architect will lead large-scale, cross-functional, enterprise-wide process design initiatives to improve customer experience, costs, and inventory productivity, in addition, present process design status updates to executive level leadership. This hands-on role will leverage end-to-end supply chain, advanced analytics, change management, and project management expertise.

RESPONSIBLIITIES:

• Lead large-scale, cross-functional, enterprise-wide supply planning process design initiatives to improve customer experience, costs, and inventory productivity.

• Design and configure supply chain planning systems to support business requirements by leading a workstream project team of internal, external and customer experts.

• Function as Lead Architect on a small project or large project workstream to design required process changes.

• Identify potential process improvements within the Supply Chain area (with a particular focus on supply planning, manufacturing planning, and shop floor execution.)

• Create and present effective and insightful executive level project updates on a regular basis.

• Professionally challenge current and/or traditional ways of thinking and create innovative approaches that will improve business outcomes.

• Be a thought leader by collaborating with executives, senior planning leaders, and fellow supply chain process architects to define Fortune Brands supply planning strategy and roadmap.

• Define the vision and strategy of our supply planning processes that satisfy the key business use cases by carefully balancing pragmatism, standardization, and meeting the requirements.

• Solve business problems by working with our internal and external customers to understand their needs and finally deliver planning processes that have a measurable impact on the company.

• Help advance Demand Driven Planning (DDMRP) methodology and planning processes by educating and influencing key stakeholders on innovative approaches of analyzing and managing the end-to-end supply chain.

• Define and document best practices and standards for the Supply Planning teams.

• Gather requirements for Supply Chain Planning including planning business processes, identifying potential areas of improvement and new development, automation of processes, reducing cycle times and productivity improvement.

• Provide architecture guidance on individual system designs; Architect designs and solutions to support the realization of supply chain planning functionalities on Orchestr8 (O8).

• Bachelor’s degree is required. Master’s Degree is preferred.
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant supply chain experience in roles of increasing responsibility to include:

  • Experience in supply chain end-to-end processes including demand planning, supply planning, and/or logistics is required.  Three years in a lead role is preferred.

  • A minimum of 3 years of experience leading large scale, complex cross-functional strategic initiatives following a formal project management methodology (including tools and techniques) and/or Six Sigma DMAIC discipline is preferred.

• Global experience as well as experience operating in an ERP environment (SAP and Oracle preferred) Proven track record of delivering results.
• Supply Chain and Six Sigma expertise gained through training, certification, and/or industry associations is preferred (e.g., APICS CSCP, edX courses, Green Belt certification).
• Skillful in building valued partnerships with stakeholders, communicating, and influencing effectively across all levels of an organization, leading change, collaborating, and working cross-functionally, facilitating workshops, applying emotional intelligence, and employing analytics.
• Experience using ADKAR or other Change Management methodology and Demand Driven Institute (DDI) certification are preferred.
• Ability to travel up to 25%.
• Proven knowledge in complex Engineering, Manufacturing Planning and Execution processes and deep implementation knowledge in SAP ECC, Oracle and supply chain cloud solutions.
• Knowledge of Grouping, Pegging and Distribution, Long Term Planning, Capacity leveling, and lean manufacturing are essential.

Company Description:

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is an industry-leading innovation company focused on creating smarter, safer and more beautiful homes and improving lives. Our driving purpose is that we elevate every life by transforming spaces into havens. We believe our work and our brands can have incredibly positive impacts for not just our business and shareholders, but for people and the planet, too. When you join Fortune Brands, you become part of a high-performing team who are empowered to think big, learn fast and make bold decisions. We support an inclusive and diverse culture where everyone is encouraged and empowered to be their authentic selves, and where our differences and unique perspectives are a key strength. Explore life at Fortune Brands here

Additional Information:

Fortune Brands believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is Hiring Pay Range: $80,000 USD - $126,500 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based sales incentive plan.

At Fortune Brands, we support the overall health and wellness of our associates by offering comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company contribution, product discounts, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays per policy), inclusive fertility / adoption benefits, and more. We offer numerous Employee Resource Groups to support inclusivity and our associates’ feeling of belonging at work.

Fortune Brands is a brand, innovation and channel leader focused on exciting, supercharged categories in the home products, security and commercial building markets. Our portfolio of brands includes Moen, House of Rohl, Aqualisa, SpringWell, Therma-Tru, Larson, Fiberon, Master Lock, SentrySafe and Yale residential.

Fortune Brands is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois and trades on the NYSE as FBIN.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

FBIN is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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