IT Manager – Supply Chain Planning and Scheduling

Company Overview

Why Choose Us?

Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging that supports multiple industries including foodservice, restaurant delivery and carryout, food processing, grocery and retail, and industrial sectors. Novolex manufacturing and sourcing expertise spans a diverse range of substrates including resin, paper, molded fiber, aluminum and more. We provide customers a broad array of stock and customized solutions with 120 product categories, 250 brands and over 39,000 SKUs.

Our Sustainability Commitment

The Novolex sustainability vision is built upon three pillars: our products, our operations and our people. Each is critically important to our growth and future as a business. These pillars form the foundation of our company-wide commitment to sustainability, helping us achieve our ambitious goals through our wide-ranging initiatives.

Job Description

Position Summary

Novolex is seeking a
Manager – Supply Chain Planning and Scheduling
to help lead the design, integration, and delivery of our next-generation Integrated Business Planning (IBP) capabilities.

This role will sit at the intersection of
business planning, manufacturing, supply chain, data, and enterprise technology
. The successful candidate will combine strong functional knowledge of
SAP Production Planning (PP), SAP PP/DS, and Kinaxis
with an understanding of
S&OP / Integrated Business Planning principles
and how planning processes operate across a complex, multi-system manufacturing environment.

This is not simply an SAP configuration role. The position will be expected to understand the end-to-end planning process, translate business requirements into scalable technology solutions, work across multiple platforms and integration points, and help engineer the future planning architecture for Novolex.

The IT Manager will lead a team of two while working closely with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Commercial, Finance, Data, Enterprise Architecture, ERP teams, implementation partners, and other technology organizations.

A key initial responsibility will be helping
design, engineer, and deliver Novolex's new Integrated Business Planning capability
, establishing the technology and integration foundation required to connect strategic, tactical, and operational planning.

Key Responsibilities

Integrated Business Planning

Partner with business and technology leadership to design and implement Novolex's future
Integrated Business Planning operating and technology model
.

Translate S&OP / IBP business processes into technology capabilities, integration requirements, data requirements, and system architecture.

Help establish the technology required to connect:

Demand planning

Supply planning

Production planning

Detailed scheduling

Material requirements planning

Inventory planning

Capacity planning

Manufacturing execution

Order fulfillment

Financial and business planning

Understand the difference between strategic, tactical, and execution-level planning and ensure appropriate integration between each planning horizon.

Partner with business leaders to improve planning visibility, exception management, scenario planning, and decision support.

SAP Production Planning & PP/DS

Serve as a functional and technical leader for SAP Production Planning (PP) and SAP PP/DS .

Provide leadership around production planning processes including:

Material Requirements Planning

Master Production Scheduling

Production and process orders

Bills of material

Routings and recipes

Work centers and resources

Capacity planning

Production versions

Detailed scheduling

Planning parameters and master data

Understand integration between SAP PP / PP-DS and adjacent SAP capabilities including MM, SD, WM/EWM, QM, CO, master data, and order fulfillment.

Kinaxis

Provide technology leadership for the use of
Kinaxis
within the planning ecosystem.

Understand Kinaxis capabilities across demand, supply, capacity, scenario, and supply-chain planning.

Help determine the appropriate division of responsibilities between Kinaxis, SAP, and other enterprise platforms.

Ensure planning outputs can be translated into executable plans within manufacturing and ERP systems.

Identify and resolve gaps between planning assumptions and operational execution.

Enterprise Integration

The successful candidate must be comfortable working beyond individual applications and understanding how information moves across an integrated enterprise landscape.

Responsibilities include

• Define business and system integration requirements between planning, ERP, manufacturing, warehouse, transportation, master-data, analytics, and financial systems.
• Work with integration and architecture teams on interfaces, APIs, batch integrations, middleware, and data flows.
• Understand upstream and downstream consequences of planning-system changes.
• Identify where process, data, integration, or system design is creating planning problems.
• Help simplify architecture and reduce unnecessary duplication of planning logic across platforms.

Data & Master Data

Understand the importance of high-quality planning master data, including:

Material masters

Bills of material

Routings

Resources and work centers

Production versions

Planning parameters

Lead times

Lot sizes

Safety stock

Capacity

Transportation and sourcing relationships

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Business, or related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Approximately 5–7+ years of progressive experience supporting enterprise manufacturing or supply-chain technology.
• Strong hands-on functional knowledge of SAP Production Planning (PP) .
• Experience with SAP PP/DS or advanced production planning and detailed scheduling.

Experience with
Kinaxis RapidResponse or Kinaxis Maestro
.

Demonstrated understanding of manufacturing and supply-chain planning processes.

Working knowledge of
S&OP and Integrated Business Planning principles
.

Experience integrating planning platforms with ERP and other enterprise applications.

Experience translating business processes and requirements into technology solutions.

Experience supporting complex, cross-functional technology initiatives.

Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

Ability to communicate effectively with both technical teams and business executives.

Demonstrated ability to operate successfully across multiple teams, systems, and organizational boundaries.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SAP S/4HANA Production Planning .
• Experience with embedded SAP S/4HANA PP/DS .
• Experience designing or implementing an enterprise Integrated Business Planning capability.
• Experience in a complex, multi-site manufacturing organization.
• Experience in environments operating multiple ERP platforms.

Understanding of supply-chain planning concepts including:

Demand planning

Supply planning

MRP

MPS

Capacity planning

Finite scheduling

Inventory optimization

Available-to-Promise

Scenario planning

• Experience with SAP integration across MM, SD, EWM/WM, CO, QM, and master-data processes.
• Experience with modern integration technologies, APIs, middleware, and cloud platforms.
• Experience working with global systems integrators and software vendors.
• Prior people-management or team-lead experience.

Leadership Characteristics

The successful candidate will

Think
end-to-end rather than application-by-application
.

Understand that planning problems can originate in process, data, organization, integration, or technology.

Be comfortable moving between strategy and detailed execution.

Challenge complexity rather than simply automate it.

Build credibility with manufacturing and supply-chain professionals.

Take ownership for outcomes rather than limiting responsibility to individual systems.

Work effectively in a changing transformation environm