Overview

Vantive is a vital organ therapy company on a mission to extend lives and expand possibilities for patients and care teams everywhere. For 70 years, our team has driven meaningful innovations in kidney care. As we build on our legacy, we are deepening our commitment to elevating the dialysis experience through digital solutions and advanced services, while looking beyond kidney care and investing in transforming vital organ therapies. Greater flexibility and efficiency in therapy administration for care teams, and longer, fuller lives for patients- that is what Vantive aspires to deliver. We believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us. At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don't settle for the mediocre. Each of us is driven to help improve patients' lives worldwide. Join us in advancing our mission to extend lives and expand possibilities. Your role at Vantive Reporting to the VP of Global SIOP, the Associate Director, Global Sales, Inventory, and Operational Planning (SIOP) manages the execution, quality, and continuous improvement of the global Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SIOP) process and associated plans. This role partners closely with Regional SIOP teams to ensure disciplined cadence, high-quality analytics, and clear decision support for executive forums. This hands-on, high visibility role is responsible for translating complex demand, supply, and inventory data into actionable insights that enables consistent and fact-based decision-making across Vantive's global enterprise. The role plays a critical part in driving alignment across supply chain, manufacturing, finance, and commercial teams while supporting escalations, scenario analysis, and working capital decisions. The Associate Director, Global Sales, Inventory, and Operational Planning (SIOP) will act as the global business expert on SIOP tools, data, and standard work. He or she will maintain the effectiveness of the SIOP process, be a driver for its continuous improvement, and ensure ongoing high-quality integrated business plans. What you'll be doing Coordinate the end-to-end global SIOP process, ensuring timely completion of all cycle steps, inputs, outputs, and documentation. Prepare, consolidate, and validate data and materials for Global SIOP meetings, including demand, supply, inventory, capacity, and financial views. Develop and maintain standard SIOP analytics, dashboards, KPI's, and reports to support decision-making, tradeoff analysis, and scenario planning. Act as a key point of coordination between regional and global SIOP forums, ensuring consistent information flow and adherence to standard work practices. Attend regional and country cluster SIOP meetings as needed to capture escalations, risks, and opportunities for global review and resolution. Support inventory management objectives by helping identify risks, excess, shortages, and working capital impacts, and documenting escalation decisions and approvals. Escalate supply, capacity, or material constraints, providing fact-based analysis and clearly articulated options. Develop and maintain SIOP policies, procedures, calendars, templates, and documentation to ensure consistency, data integrity, analytical rigor, process adherence, and auditability across regions. Manage global SIOP process governance and continuous improvement initiatives. Recruit and manage planning process excellence staff as needed. Key Accountabilities Support the Global SIOP VP in maintaining a disciplined, standardized, and system-driven SIOP process globally. Ensure high-quality inputs and outputs for Global SIOP reviews, enabling efficient, fact-based executive discussions. Drive rigor and consistency in SIOP execution across regions while allowing for appropriate local nuances. Enable transparency across demand, supply, and inventory plans to support service, cost,