Director, IT – Supply Chain Planning

CREATIVITY IS OUR SUPERPOWER. It’s our heritage and it’s also our future. Because we don’t just make toys. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire fans, entertain audiences and develop children through play. Mattel is at its best when every member of our team feels respected, included, and heard-when everyone can show up as themselves and do their best work every day.

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Mattel is searching for a technology leader with an immense passion for delivering business value in the form of process simplification and modernization enabled by technology data and program management. The Director of Global Supply Chain is a key technology partner to Mattel’s Supply chain Planning Leadership – SVPs/VPs/Sr. Directors of Planning (demand, supply, S&OP, allocation and Supply chain Analytics), and the global supply chain organization.

This role will lead innovation, project management, systems development and implementation, and support of all technology that enables these areas. The business functions supported by this key leader includes demand planning, supply planning, S&OP, allocation planning, and supply chain analytics. This role requires experience in a best of breed enterprise software environment with an emphasis on managing complex integration. This leader will have excellent domain experience in these areas as well as a proven success record of delivering business value and organizational transformation in a matrixed IT environment with reliance on offshore delivery partners.

They will bring a wealth of experience in developing and delivering modern technology solutions, excellent vendor management skill, and have a proven track record of modernizing and transforming technology capabilities aligned to business process transformation. Supporting the supply chain teams requires in depth knowledge of best practices in demand planning, supply planning, MRP, purchasing, inventory management, distribution planning, allocation planning, S&OP and supply chain postponement in a global organization.

This leader must partner with the business to create best in class reporting tools including dashboards, interactive data visualizations, standard analyses, balances scorecards, and user-friendly ad hoc reporting driving data‑driven decision making throughout the organization. This position will report directly to Mattel’s Global Supply Chain Technology VP or Senior Director and will be a key member of the Global Technology Organization’s leadership team.

This leader is a key contributor to the development and execution of the enterprise‑wide IT strategy, while maintaining its alignment with the enterprise’s business strategy and the delivery of capabilities required to achieve business success. Remote candidates are required to travel 50% (every other week to corporate and other facilities as required). Relocation to Corporate in El Segundo, CA is preferred.

For local candidates or ones close to other Mattel locations, onsite presence is needed when local.

• Lead the Global Technology Organization (GTO) team that is responsible for delivering technology solutions for our Global Supply Chain Planning organization.
• Work with the CTO, Senior IT Leadership team, Enterprise Architecture and GSC Leadership Team to develop and maintain a strategic roadmap for Global Supply Chain Planning that supports business strategies and priorities.
• Act as a trusted advisor while building and maintaining relationships with business executives to develop a clear understanding of business needs; innovate on and identify opportunities and educate the business where modern technology solutions can add value or achieve stated goals.
• Work with our PMO to develop and oversee the annual budget for Planning Development. Accountable for budgets covering OPEX and CAPEX.
• Ensure that all Project/Delivery Managers working on your portfolios have the correct resources to deliver their plans and that escalations on resources are…