Director, IT Supply Chain
Oxford, CT - USA
Job Summary
At Revlon we create beauty innovations for everyone that inspire confidence and ignite joy every day.
Breaking beauty boundaries is in our companys DNA. Since its game-changing launch of the first opaque nail enamel in 1932 (and later the first long-wear foundation) Revlon has provided consumers with high-quality product innovation performance and sophisticated glamour. Elizabeth Arden made waves as a woman-led beauty company in the 1920s. In 1931 Almay became the original hypoallergenic fragrance-free beauty brand.
Today Revlon resiliently continues its legacy as a leading global beauty company. Our diverse portfoliowhich consists of some of the worlds most iconic brands and product offerings in color cosmetics skincare hair color & care personal care and fragrancesis sold around the world through prestige professional mass and direct-to-consumer retail channels. These brands include Revlon Revlon Professional Elizabeth Arden Almay American Crew CND Cutex Mitchum Sinful Colors Creme of Nature Christina Aguilera John Varvatos Juicy Couture Ed Hardy and more.
We honor our heritage embrace change and applaud diversity. We champion our employees and celebrate our consumers.
We are Revlon together transforming beauty.
This role is a Hybrid Role: Employees are expected to work from our Oxford office 3 days per week and may work remotely the remaining days.
Role Overview
The Director SAP Planning Procurement & Advanced Planning Systems is responsible for global ownership and strategic direction of enterprise planning procurement and inventory optimization platforms. The role oversees SAP ECC 6.0 (SP7) planning and procurement functionality associated master data governance and the implementation of an Advanced Planning Solution (APS) to elevate S&OP maturity and drive a significant sustained reduction in enterprise inventory while maintaining service performance.
This role requires a leader who combines executivelevel accountability with deep functional and technical credibilitysomeone who can set strategy and lead globally while also engaging directly in complex issues when judgment speed or trust demands it.
Role Mandate
This position is intentionally designed for a Director who can operate across all execution altitudes:
- Provide strategic guidance and architectural direction
- Lead and develop global internal teams and external delivery partners
- And when required personally engage in detailed functional or technical work to diagnose issues validate solutions and restore business confidence
The expectation is not daytoday handson delivery but the ability and willingness to step into the details selectively and decisively.
Core Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership & Governance
- Own the global planning procurement and inventory optimization technology strategy
- Define and enforce governance standards across planning processes system behavior and master data
- Partner with Supply Chain Procurement Manufacturing and Finance leadership to align system capabilities with business outcomes
- Provide executive oversight while retaining the ability to personally validate highrisk or highimpact decisions
SAP ECC Planning & Procurement Ownership
- Executive functional ownership of SAP ECC MM and PP
- Accountability for the correctness stability and scalability of:
- MRP behavior
- Procurement execution
- Production and inventory planning
- Maintain the capability to:
- Review and challenge SAP configuration
- Analyze MRP results planning exceptions and systemdriven constraints
- Engage directly in rootcause analysis of complex planning failures
- Serve as the senior escalation point for planningrelated operational risk
Advanced Planning Solution (APS) & S&OP Enablement
- Act as IT Functional Lead and handson functional authority for APS implementation
- Lead evaluation and deployment planning for:
- Kinaxis Maestro o9 Anaplan (examples)
- Ensure APS recommendations are executable within ERP and operational constraints
- Partner with business leadership to translate planning outputs into actionable decisions
- Balance strategic oversight with informed detaillevel engagement during critical design and adoption phases
Global Team & Delivery Leadership
- Lead a globally distributed delivery organization including:
- SAP functional teams (Europe North America Australia)
- SAP MDG functional support
- SAP / JD Edwards hybrid functional leadership
- External AMS provider
- Establish clear operating models decision rights and outcomebased KPIs
- Delegate effectively while maintaining direct line of sight into quality risk and execution
- Step in personally when needed to unblock delivery or correct course
Technical & Architectural Stewardship
- Leverage earlycareer ABAP foundation to:
- Challenge solution designs and integration approaches
- Review functional specifications and enhancement strategies
- Reduce technical debt and unnecessary customization
- Comfortable reviewing system behavior debug findings and design tradeoffs to ensure solutions are fit for purpose
- Serve as a technical authority when credibility with business SMEs is essential
Executive Engagement & Change Leadership
- Engage credibly with:
- Business SMEs and planners
- Functional analysts and developers
- Global system integrators
- Senior and executive leadership
- Translate detailed system behavior into clear business implications
- Lead change through clarity credibility and shared accountabilitynot mandate alone
Ideal Candidate Profile
Experience
- 15 years of progressive experience across SAP and enterprise planning
- Career foundation in SAP ABAP transitioning to SAP MM/PP functional leadership
- Demonstrated success leading global teams and complex vendor ecosystems
- Direct leadership in at least one APS or advanced planning transformation
- Deep experience operating SAP ECC in multiregion supply chain environments
Leadership Characteristics
The successful candidate:
- Is comfortable working at the level required by the situation regardless of title
- Uses handson engagement selectively and purposefully not as a substitute for delegation
- Builds credibility through technical understanding sound judgment and followthrough
- Is trusted by business SMEs because they understand how the system actually behaves
Measures of Success
- Stable predictable global SAP MM/PP planning performance
- Successful APS implementation with strong adoption
- Material sustained reduction in inventory levels while maintaining service
- Improved S&OP decision quality and confidence
- Restored and durable trust between IT and business planning teams
#LI-EM1 #LI-Hybrid
Revlon is unable to sponsor or transfer employment visas for this role; candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future visa support.
The base pay range for this position is $140000.00 - $170000.00 / year; however base pay offered may vary depending on skills experience job-related knowledge and geographic location. Certain positions may also be eligible for short-term incentives as part of total compensation.
Employees (and their families) are eligible for medical dental and vision benefits. Employees are covered by the company-paid basic life insurance policy and company-paid short-term disability insurance (the benefit commences upon hire and allows for a portion of base salary for up to 26 weeks if you are disabled). Other benefits offered to employees include but are not limited to the following: long-term disability supplemental life insurances flexible spending accounts critical illness insurance group legal identity theft protection etc. Employees are also able to enroll in our 401k Retirement Savings Plan.
Employees will also receive 4 weeks of vacation pro-rated based on date of hire for the 1st year of employment and twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Vacation will depend on role.
Required Experience:
Director
About Company
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