Ciena
Vice President, Supply Chain Planning
Ottawa · Exec
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About the role
- As demand accelerates for cloud and AI networking infrastructure, Supply Chain is at the center of how Ciena scales-enabling resilience, global reach, and sustained growth.
- This role will be instrumental in evolving Ciena's end-to-end supply chain operating model, planning capabilities, and digital planning ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Own and continuously mature the end-to-end Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process, aligning Sales, Finance, Product Management, and Supply Chain on a single set of numbers each month.
- Lead global demand planning (statistical forecasting, consensus demand, new product ramp/EOL demand shaping) across global direct-customer, partner and distribution channels.
- Lead the evolution of the Supply Chain operating model toward a more integrated planning organization, defining decision rights, processes, governance mechanisms, and capabilities across the key functions of supply chain.
- Lead the development of supply network and capacity planning strategies across contract manufacturing, fulfillment, and operations partners, partnering closely with Manufacturing & Network Operations to strengthen end-to-end planning capabilities and supply chain resilience.
- Build and lead the sensing/response capability for supply risk - component shortages, allocation, geopolitical/export-control disruption - partnering closely with Procurement and Manufacturing Operations.
- Own planning systems strategy, roadmap, and advanced analytics/AI capability for demand sensing, forecasting, and scenario simulation, partnering closely with IT to deliver near-term project milestones and shape the longer-term digital planning evolution.
- Partner with Product Management/Engineering on NPI demand ramps and EOL/last-time-buy planning, and with Manufacturing Operations on rough-cut and detailed capacity planning.
- Build and lead a world-class global planning organization, establishing the operating model, talent strategy, and leadership culture needed to drive accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and business results across a complex global matrix.
- Deep expertise in demand/supply planning, S&OP/IBP process design and governance, and network/capacity planning.
- Proven experience managing outsourced manufacturing supply chains and long-lead-time categories.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, or related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
Nice to have
- MBA or advanced degree preferred.
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, or related field
Benefits
- Establish and govern inventory strategy and policy (safety stock, buffer profiles, strategic buys) to hit target inventory turns and working capital goals while protecting revenue/service levels.
- Own enterprise excess and obsolete (E&O) inventory performance, driving cross-functional governance, prevention, disposition, and lifecycle planning actions to improve inventory health and working capital efficiency.
Company info
- At Ciena, we are committed to building and fostering an environment in which our employees feel respected, valued, and heard.
Equal opportunity
- If contacted in relation to a job opportunity, please advise Ciena of any accommodation measures you may require.
- Ciena is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.
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