Director, Planning Value Stream

As a Director on the Global Value Stream team, you will lead the design, harmonization, and continuous improvement of planning processes and capabilities across HelloFresh's global supply chain. Your initial focus will be Demand Planning, Supply Planning, and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP).

What you'll do

• Own the 'to-be' global process architecture and multi-year capability roadmap for Demand Planning, Supply Planning, and S&OP, ensuring the full forecast-to-supply pipeline is harmonized, scalable, and aligned to long-term business growth across all international markets.
• Lead alignment among senior operational leaders across regions and functions, building the consensus and governance structures required for adoption of global planning standards at scale.
• Partner with senior Product and Engineering leadership to shape the planning technology strategy, prioritizing roadmap investments that deliver durable global capability.
• Establish and govern the operating model for planning exceptions and deviation control, defining where global standards must hold and where market-specific adaptation is permitted.
• Serve as the process and requirements architect for Lighthouse Projects within the planning value stream, shaping the design and acceptance criteria for new harmonized blueprints.
• Set the methodology and standards for cross-market maturity assessments, directing diagnostic work and translating systemic capability gaps into structured improvement programs.
• Define the plan quality and S&OP performance framework, partnering with Finance and Analytics to set benchmarks and quantify business value.
• Set the global S&OP operating model, including cadence, decision rights, escalation paths, and integration logic across planning functions.

What you'll need

• 12 to 15 years of progressive experience in supply chain planning, including significant time in demand planning, supply planning, and/or S&OP leadership within multi-site or multi-country operations.
• Strong working expertise across demand planning, supply planning, and S&OP, with depth to engage credibly on methodology and breadth to integrate across the full planning pipeline.
• Track record of designing and implementing S&OP processes at scale, ideally in fast-moving consumer goods, food, or other high-velocity supply chain environments.
• Experience leading or significantly shaping the implementation of Advanced Planning Systems, including requirements definition and vendor evaluation.
• Demonstrated success driving cross-functional alignment and senior stakeholder influence across regional, functional, and executive boundaries.
• Strong analytical foundation with the ability to move fluidly between strategic framing and quantitative depth.

Nice to have

• Experience with lean, Six Sigma, or equivalent continuous improvement frameworks applied to planning processes.
• A history of mentoring and developing senior planning talent.

What they offer

• The opportunity to shape global operations at a leading food technology company with significant reach and impact.
• A high-ownership, low-bureaucracy environment where your work is visible and your decisions matter.
• Flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance.
• Company discount: 70% off HelloFresh and 40% off Youfoodz.
• Continuous development through HelloFresh Academies and access to internal mobility across 18 countries.