Director-Supply Chain Planning

We are Builders FirstSource, America’s largest supplier of building materials, value-added components and building services to the professional market. You’ll feel proud of the work you do here every day to transform the future of home building and help make the dream of home ownership more achievable. At BFS, we believe building a successful career is not solely defined by a degree. Your experience, skills, and passion are just as important, if not more so. As such, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace that welcomes candidates from all backgrounds and experience levels.

The Director, Supply Chain Planning leads the development and continuous improvement of enterprise supply chain planning across Builders FirstSource, with responsibility for demand planning, supply planning, inventory planning, replenishment, Material Requirements Planning (MRP), and Sales \& Operations Planning (S\&OP) and Integrated Business Planning (IBP). The role applies established supply chain planning principles and practices to improve customer service, inventory productivity, operational performance, and business decision-making.

The Director partners across Sales, Operations, Procurement, Finance, Logistics, Data, and Technology to translate business strategy, customer demand, and operational realities into coordinated, executable plans. The role provides leadership for planning standards, governance, performance management, and organizational capability across a large, distributed operating environment.

This is a business and supply chain leadership role enabled by data and technology. The Director owns the business planning processes, requirements, and outcomes while partnering with Technology and Data teams to ensure SAP IBP, SAP S/4HANA, analytics, and other planning capabilities effectively support the company’s evolving planning model.

What You’ll Do

Lead Enterprise Supply Chain Planning

• Lead enterprise planning across demand, supply, inventory, replenishment, and MRP, establishing clear processes, governance, standards, and accountability.
• Translate business strategy, customer demand, and operational constraints into coordinated, executable supply chain plans.
• Establish planning practices that balance enterprise consistency with legitimate differences across products, markets, and operating models.

Lead S\&OP / Integrated Business Planning

• Lead and mature the S\&OP / Integrated Business Planning process, connecting demand, supply, inventory, operational, and financial perspectives.
• Establish effective planning reviews that surface gaps, risks, opportunities, scenarios, and trade-offs requiring business decisions.
• Partner with Finance and business leaders to align operational plans with business objectives and drive clear ownership of resulting decisions and actions.

Advance Demand \& Supply Planning

• Strengthen demand planning, forecasting, supply planning, and replenishment practices across the enterprise.
• Improve forecast quality through appropriate statistical, collaborative, segmentation, and exception-based planning methods.
• Proactively identify supply constraints, capacity considerations, inventory risks, and planning exceptions requiring cross-functional intervention.

Govern Inventory, Replenishment \& MRP

• Establish inventory and replenishment strategies that balance product availability, customer service, working capital, and operational requirements.
• Provide business leadership for MRP, replenishment methods, safety stock, service levels, lead times, lot sizing, reorder points, and other critical planning parameters.
• Establish governance for planning policies, parameters, and master data that materially influence inventory and replenishment outcomes.

Drive Planning Performance \& Continuous Improvement

• Establish meaningful measures of planning effectiveness and business outcomes, including forecast performance, service, inventory productivity, and replenishment effectiveness.
• Use analytics, exception management, and root-cause analysis to identify systemic performance gaps and improvement opportunities.
• Drive continuous improvement across planning processes, policies, data, organizational capabilities, and ways of working.

Build Organizational Capability \& Partnership

• Lead and develop the Supply Chain Planning organization, strengthening capability, accountability, succession, and professional development.
• Build strong partnerships across Sales, Operations, Procurement, Finance, Logistics, Data, and Technology to improve end-to-end planning and decision-making.
• Strengthen planning knowledge and adoption across the broader organization while clarifying roles, decision rights, and accountability.

Enable Planning Through Data \& Technology

• Define business requirements and priorities for the data, analytics, and technology capabilities that enable Supply Chain Planning.
• Partner with Technology and Data teams to ensure SAP IBP, SAP S/4HANA, analytics, automation, and other planning capabilities effectively support business processes and decisions.
• Ensure planning technology investments are driven by business requirements, measurable outcomes, and sustainable ways of working.

What Success Looks Like

• Trusted Plans: Business leaders rely on demand, supply, inventory, and replenishment plans to make informed decisions and manage the business.
• Better Decisions: Risks, constraints, opportunities, scenarios, and trade-offs are surfaced early enough to enable proactive, fact-based decisions.
• Productive Inventory: Planning policies and practices appropriately balance product availability, customer service, operational requirements, and inventory investment.
• Integrated Planning: Sales, Operations, Procurement, Finance, Logistics, and Supply Chain operate through connected S\&OP / IBP processes with clear assumptions, decisions, ownership, and accountability.
• Sustainable Capability: Planning performance, talent, processes, data, and enabling technology continuously mature and deliver measurable business value.

In Your First Year

You will have the opportunity to:

• Define the future-state Supply Chain Planning operating model and prioritized roadmap across demand, supply, inventory, replenishment, MRP, and S\&OP / IBP.
• Establish the enterprise planning cadence and governance model, creating clearer decision rights, accountability, and cross-functional planning forums.
• Advance demand, supply, inventory, and MRP maturity, prioritizing the planning practices, policies, and improvements with the greatest business impact.
• Establish a planning performance framework that connects forecast quality, service, inventory productivity, and planning effectiveness to business outcomes.
• Build organizational planning capability, developing the Supply Chain Planning team while strengthening planning disciplines and adoption across the broader organization.
• Shape how data, analytics, SAP IBP, and related capabilities enable the planning operating model, ensuring technology investments follow business process and decision requirements.

Required Qualifications

Education \& Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations, Business Administration, Finance, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• 10+ years of progressive supply chain experience, including significant experience in Supply Chain Planning and related disciplines such as demand planning, supply planning, inventory management, replenishment, MRP, and S\&OP / Integrated Business Planning.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing supply chain planning teams within a complex, multi-location organization.
• Deep practical knowledge of supply chain planning principles, forecasting, inventory management, replenishment, MRP, and planning performance management.
• Demonstrated experience leading or materially contributing to S\&OP / Integrated Business Planning processes that connect commercial, operational, supply chain, and financial perspectives.
• Strong business and analytical acumen with the ability to translate complex planning information into business implications, trade-offs, recommendations, and decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to influence leaders and drive alignment across multiple functions and organizational levels.
• Experience leading significant planning process, organizational, or operating-model change.

Preferred Qualifications

• ASCM/APICS certification, particularly Certified in Planning and Inventory Management (CPIM) and/or Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP).
• Advanced degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations, Business Administration, Finance, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience leading Supply Chain Planning within a large, complex, multi-location or decentralized operating environment.
• Experience maturing S\&OP / Integrated Business Planning processes across multiple functions and organizational levels.
• Experience advancing inventory segmentation, replenishment strategies, MRP practices, safety-stock policies, and planning parameter governance.
• Experience leading a significant Supply Chain Planning transformation involving process, organization, data, analytics, and ways of working.
• Experience within building products, distribution, manufacturing, retail, or another complex, inventory-intensive industry.
• Experience with SAP IBP, SAP S/4HANA, or comparable enterprise planning and ERP platforms.

Leadership Competencies \& Responsibilities

• Enterprise \& Strategic Leadership: Connects Supply Chain Planning priorities to broader customer, operational, financial, and business outcomes.
• Influence \& Collaboration: Builds alignment across functions and organizational levels through credibility, effective partnership, and constructive challenge.
• Decision Quality \& Accountability: Uses data and business judgment to frame trade-offs, drive decisions, establish clear ownership, and deliver results.
• Change Leadership: Creates clarity through transformation and builds commitment to new processes, capabilities, and ways of working.
• People Leadership \& Development: Leads, coaches, and develops team members through clear expectations, meaningful feedback, career development, succession planning, and performance accountability.

This position was posted on October 27, 2026 and we anticipate it will be open for a minimum of five days, though it may be open for a longer period. We encourage your prompt application.

Successful, innovative, and fulfilling careers are built here, and your professional development is a high priority. We invest in your future through the latest training, tools, and technologies. Highly collaborative, we work together to solve problems and find better ways to continually grow our business and careers every day. You’ll be empowered to try new things, gain new experiences, and build a career with unlimited horizons. The scale and depth of resources that being the #1 building materials distributor in the nation provides a variety of opportunities for you to explore – all in a friendly, people-first environment. Join us to be more, do more, and build more, together at BFS.

In addition to the base wage listed, this position is also eligible to earn an annual bonus subject to changes in plan design and documents and in accordance with applicable law. Eligibility and the amount of the bonus varies based on overall company success, thresholds met and other terms and conditions of the Company’s active bonus policy for the respective year.

At Builders FirstSource, we offer competitive, affordable benefits designed to make life better for you and the people you love. Our goal is simple — provide great plans that help you and your family to live happier, healthier and more secure lives. This role is eligible for medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance plans, 401(k) retirement savings plan, PTO (including paid sick time), and 8 paid holidays per year (for salaried and hourly team members). Details about Builders FirstSource’s benefits offerings are available here www.bldrbenefits.com.

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