Senior Manager Global Planning - #51288

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YOUR OPPORTUNITY

This is a unique opportunity to be part of our global planning team and play an important Global role in our organization.

You will build deep partnership at a global and local level, across Bacardi, to oversee S&OP processes and global and market planning teams

You will play a major role in optimizing inventory across the markets and manage overall demand accuracy for our operations, ultimately helping Bacardi to deliver against our BEST10 growth aspirations to support sales.

RESPONSIBILITIES - WITH OUR CONSUMER AT THE HEART YOUR KEY FOCUS WILL BE

Global S&OP Process governance and continuous improvement ownership

• Lead and orchestrate the end-to-end Global Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process, ensuring effective collaboration across regional and local Supply Chain teams.
• Ensure the S&OP process serves as the single source of truth for company planning across tactical and strategic horizons, including the Long-Term Demand Plan (LTDP), Budget, and Standard planning cycles.
• Drive accountability for cross-functional and regional inputs, ensuring timely, high-quality decision-making throughout the planning cycle.
• Champion a forward-looking, scenario-based, and decision-focused planning culture across the organization.
• Own and continuously evolve global S&OP standards, governance, and best practices across regions and business units.
• Ensure strong integration between S&OP and Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE), enabling rapid response to market changes, operational disruptions, and business priorities.
• Maintain global S&OP and S&OE governance, playbooks, standards, and process documentation, ensuring alignment with organizational and business changes.
  
  

Planning, Inventory & Performance Management

• Lead global forums to communicate and improve inventory health across businesses, categories, and regions, balancing service, cost and cash objectives.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on forecast performance, consensus alignment, inventory optimization, and planning effectiveness.
• Lead the adoption of automation, advanced analytics, AI-enabled forecasting, and digital planning solutions to improve planning efficiency and decision quality.
• Promote a culture of lean thinking, continuous improvement, and benchmark-driven performance across planning teams and processes.
• Leverage internal and external market intelligence, industry benchmarks, and analytics to strengthen planning decisions and business outcomes.
  
  

Portfolio & Innovation Planning

• Partner with Commercial, Marketing, Innovation, Finance, and Supply teams to support new product launches, line extensions, portfolio rationalization, promotions, and lifecycle management initiatives.
• Ensure portfolio decisions are fully integrated into demand, supply, inventory, and financial planning processes.
• Accountable for Product Portfolio Lifecycle Management
  
  

People Leadership & Capability Building

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing global planning community, including regional demand planners through direct and matrix leadership structures.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, curiosity, and continuous learning.
• Build organizational capability through the development of S&OP policies, processes, governance frameworks, KPIs, training programs, and planning standards.
• Develop planning capabilities, succession pipelines, and training curricula to improve planning maturity across the organization.
• Promote best-practice sharing and capability building across regional and global planning teams.
  
  

Business Partnership & Strategy

• Develop and maintain the global planning maturity roadmap, driving continuous improvement in planning capabilities, governance, processes, and technology.
• Facilitate cross-functional alignment and issue resolution through integrated business scenarios and executive-ready recommendations.
• Lead the development and communication of key global planning outputs, including Global TISP, S&OP dashboards, Volume and NSV reporting, and executive presentations.
• Serve as the primary global planning partner to Commercial, Marketing, Finance, Supply Planning, Procurement, Manufacturing, Logistics, and other key stakeholders
• Influence senior stakeholders to drive consensus demand, supply, inventory, and financial plans
  
  

SKILLS - THE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE NEEDED TO CREATE YOUR LEGACY

• Strong expertise in S&OP, Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Inventory Management, and Integrated Business Planning.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional decision-making and influence senior stakeholders without direct authority.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience in scenario planning and risk management.
• Ability to translate complex data into clear business insights and actionable recommendations.
• Experience driving process improvement and planning excellence initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of planning systems and analytics tools (SAP IBP/APO, Kinaxis, Anaplan, O9 etc.)
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• 10+ years of Supply Chain Planning experience within a complex global organization
• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Finance, or a related field
• Collaborative, proactive, and results-oriented with a continuous improvement mindset. Experience within a Supply Chain Market position.
• Team Management
• Language Requirements: English is essential, other European Languages is an asset.
  
  

PERSONAL QUALITIES – SHARE OUR FOUNDER’S PASSION AND ENTREPRENEURIAL FLAIR

• Belonging: You have a strong capacity to create a culture of ‘Belonging’, where people feel appreciated for who they are, what they do, and who they can become
• Self-Awareness: You have high levels of self-awareness, are reflective and know yourself well, understanding both your own strengths and weaknesses and your impact on others
• People Agility: You bring a deep ability to understand and relate to people and navigate through tough situations to harness and multiply collective performance. Authentic, approachable, empathetic, and inclusive style of communication & collaboration, with the ability to work with diverse, geographically spread teams across multiple time zones.
• Results Agility: You demonstrate consistent delivery of results in first-time situations by inspiring teams, exhibiting a presence that builds confidence in yourself and others. Rigour in execution of hiring activities and able to deliver with brilliance at pace. Integrity and hunger to be part of a winning team - working in close collaboration with BEST towards a common goal
• Mental Agility: You can think critically to penetrate complex problems and expand the possibilities by making fresh connections. You think strategically whilst being execution focused and bring creativity to the challenges, you’re presented with
• Change Agility: You have a deep natural curiosity, desire to experiment and ability to effectively deal with the heat of change. You have a growth and learning mindset: ready to test, stumble, learn and apply from experience. Tenacity and resilience to work through challenging hiring needs and multiple competing agendas in high demand/high speed situations
  
  

LEADERSHIP AGILITY

At Bacardi we care deeply about finding brilliant talent who can bring the following personal attributes to help elevate our 3Fs: Fearless, Family, Founder culture to the next level.

• Belonging: You have a strong capacity to create a culture of ‘Belonging’, where people feel appreciated for who they are, what they do, and who they can become
• Self-Awareness: You have high levels of self-awareness, are reflective and know yourself well, understanding both your own strengths and weaknesses and your impact on others
• People Agility: You bring a deep ability to understand and relate to people and navigate through tough situations to harness and multiply collective performance
• Results Agility: You demonstrate consistent delivery of results in first-time situations by inspiring teams, exhibiting a presence that builds confidence in yourself and others.
• Mental Agility: You can think critically to penetrate complex problems and expand the possibilities by making fresh connections. You think strategically whilst being execution focused and bring creativity to the challenges you’re presented with
• Change Agility: You have a deep natural curiosity, desire to experiment and ability to effectively deal with the heat of change. You have a growth and learning mindset: ready to test, stumble, learn and apply from experience
  
  

Disclaimer: Bacardi seeks talent from all backgrounds to bring diversity of thought, agility and capability to our organization across the globe. We promote a working environment where all employees are treated and rewarded fairly. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination that adversely affects individuals or groups on the basis of national origin, race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, age, and any other legally protected aspect of a person’s identity.

U.S. applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws.

Perks of Working for us

At Bacardi, we are committed to providing our Primos (employees) with a comprehensive Total Rewards package of compensation, benefits, incentives, allowances, well-being, and much more to meet the needs of themselves and their families. It goes beyond just Cash! The total rewards program is based on pay for performance, whereby the incentive programs are linked to company and individual performance.

Compensation, Paid Time Off & Retirement:

• Competitive Pay Package
• Competitive Holiday/Paid Time Off, plus additional days offered ( i.e., volunteer day, allowing you to give back to the community)
• Retirement/Pension Plan
  
  

Health & Wellbeing

• Medical, Critical Illness, and Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Best-in-class, family-friendly, and inclusive leave policies
  
  

Additional Benefits

The benefits /perks may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Bacardi, your work location, and are subject to change.

Some benefits may be subject to an employee contribution.

Some benefits may be fully or partially subsidized. Incentive plans are linked to the nature of your employment and can vary based on region, market, function or brand.