Global Planning Mgr

Role Purpose

Are you ready to lead global supply chain strategies that connect customer demand, operational excellence, and business growth worldwide?

Join Corning's Supply Chain organization and play a key leadership role in driving global planning processes, optimizing supply chain performance, and building strong customer partnerships. This is an exciting opportunity to influence strategic decisions across multiple regions while leading high-performing teams and delivering exceptional customer service.

What is your role?

As a Global Planning Manager, you will be responsible for developing and executing global supply chain strategies that align demand, supply, and capacity across regions. You will lead customer-focused planning activities, drive operational excellence, and collaborate with customers, manufacturing teams, suppliers, and business leaders to ensure product availability and supply chain resilience.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development and management of global capacity and demand plans (SIOP), ensuring alignment with corporate objectives, customer value, and supply chain capabilities.
• Oversee Customer Supply Chain Analysts, ensuring that product-level planning and execution aligns with global strategies and customer demand.
• Collaborate with key customers to understand demand models, synchronize orders, and represent customer demand in forecast consensus meetings.
• Define and drive global customer replenishment strategies while improving forecast accuracy and managing inventory transitions for new product introductions.
• Collaborate with manufacturing, supply chain, and operations teams to ensure flexible capacity models and robust contingency plans are in place across product lines.
• Drive global supply chain initiatives related to security of supply, inventory optimization (iMAX), and SLOB management, while guiding Product Line Planners in their execution.
• Develop and execute strategic supply chain initiatives, ensuring product availability and operational efficiency at both global and product-specific levels.
• Set global KPIs for supply chain performance and monitor key metrics such as on-time delivery, inventory levels, and cost efficiency, ensuring that Product Line Planners meet their respective targets.
• Lead global cross-functional teams in the planning and execution of improvement projects related to supply chain processes and systems, coordinating with Product Line Planners and Customer Supply Chain Analyst for consistent execution.
• Provide regular updates to global supply chain stakeholders, weekly Product Overviews, present strategies in five-year plans, and lead customer business reviews and supply chain planning efforts.
• Represent all Supply Chain functions within Product Team structure to drive alignment between supply chain capabilities and business objectives.

Experiences/Education - Required

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or a related field.

• 8+ years of supply chain planning experience in a global manufacturing environment.

• Proven experience in demand planning, capacity planning, inventory management, and supply chain optimization.

• Demonstrated leadership experience managing teams and influencing cross-functional stakeholders across multiple regions.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with experience using planning systems such as SAP or equivalent ERP platforms.

• Excellent communication and customer relationship management skills.

• Advanced English proficiency.

Experiences/Education - Desired

• MBA or Master's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Operations, or related discipline.

• Professional certifications such as APICS/CPIM, CSCP, PMP, Lean Six Sigma, or equivalent.

What do we offer?

• Competitive compensation and benefits package above market standards.

• Opportunity to work in a highly visible global leadership role.

• Dynamic and collaborative environment focused on innovation and continuous improvement.

• Professional development and career growth opportunities within a global organization.

• Inclusive culture that values diversity, teamwork, and employee development.