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
Role Overview
The Director, BI & Supply Chain Analytics leads the enterprise analytics strategy for Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SIOP), delivering the integrated insights, metrics, and scenario intelligence that enable executive planning decisions. This role establishes a single source of truth across demand, supply, inventory, and financial planning, ensuring consistent data, aligned metrics, and actionable analytics across functions.
As the analytics authority for SIOP / Integrated Business Planning (IBP), this leader integrates data from commercial, operations, and finance domains into executive-ready insights and scenarios. The Director partners closely with Supply Chain, Finance, Commercial, and Digital teams to prioritize analytics investments, advance planning intelligence capabilities, and ensure SIOP decisions are supported by trusted, consistent, and decision-grade analytics.
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise SIOP Analytics Strategy
Define and govern the enterprise SIOP analytics framework, including data models, metrics, and planning hierarchies
Establish a single source of truth across demand, supply, inventory, and financial planning data
Standardize planning KPIs, metric definitions, and calculation logic across functions and business units
Ensure alignment between operational, financial, and executive SIOP metrics
Integrated Planning Insights
Integrate demand, supply, capacity, inventory, and financial data into unified planning insights
Translate complex analytics into clear executive implications and trade-offs
Ensure consistent cross-functional visibility to risks, gaps, and opportunities
Partner with Finance to align SIOP analytics with financial plans and targets
Executive SIOP Scenario Analytics
Lead development of executive SIOP scenario modeling and decision analytics
Quantify service, cost, inventory, capacity, and revenue trade-offs across scenarios
Provide decision-ready recommendations for executive SIOP forums
Advance predictive and prescriptive analytics capabilities in planning
Analytics Product & Roadmap Leadership
Define and prioritize the SIOP analytics and BI roadmap aligned to business strategy
Oversee development of dashboards, planning analytics products, and decision tools
Partner with IT/Data/Digital teams on data architecture, platforms, and automation
Drive adoption and business value realization from analytics investments
Data Governance & Metric Integrity
Ensure data consistency, reconciliation, and governance across planning domains
Establish controls for metric integrity, lineage, and traceability
Monitor and resolve cross-functional metric misalignment or data conflicts
Maintain documentation and standards for planning data and analytics
Team & Capability Leadership
Lead and develop BI and supply chain analytics managers and teams
Build enterprise planning analytics capabilities, methods, and standards
Promote advanced analytics, data science, and visualization best practices
Foster a culture of decision-centric analytics and business partnership
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Analytics, Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations Research, or related field (MS, MBA, or advanced analytics degree preferred)
12+ years of experience in analytics, supply chain planning, or business intelligence
5+ years leading analytics or BI teams in complex, cross-functional environments
Demonstrated experience in S&OP/SIOP or Integrated Business Planning analytics
Strong expertise in data modeling, BI platforms, and planning analytics tools
Proven ability to translate analytics into executive decisions and business outcomes
Solid financial and operational acumen
Leadership Competencies
Advanced analytics and data strategy leadership
Cross-functional integration and systems thinking
Scenario modeling and decision intelligence
Executive communication and storytelling with data
Data governance and metric design
Enterprise influence and stakeholder alignment
Success Measures
Executive trust and adoption of SIOP analytics and data
Alignment of planning metrics across demand, supply, and finance
Adoption and impact of scenario-based decisions in SIOP
Measurable business value from analytics initiatives
Reduction in data conflicts and metric discrepancies
Timeliness, accuracy, and usability of SIOP dashboards and insights
A reasonable estimate of the current range is $150k-$215k + bonus + benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. At Novolex, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.
The benefits for this role include 401(k) plan with company match, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance, flexible spending and health savings accounts, paid vacation, and sick days, paid parental leave, paid holidays and wellness program.
Company Benefits
What You'll Get From Us
Benefits
With safety as our top priority and a commitment to employee well-being an important focus, we offer comprehensive and competitive benefits that include medical, dental and vision insurance as well as a variety of other well-being resources focused on mental, physical and financial health. Specific benefits and well-being programs may vary depending on where you work.
Community Engagement
At Novolex, giving back to the local communities that support us is important. Our Focused Giving Program prioritizes support for organizations whose missions promote sustainability initiatives or address food and hunger needs. We also encourage facility level support of activities in the communities where our employees live and work.
Training and Development
We offer constant opportunities for advancement. From skills development to advanced education programs, training and development programs and courses are available through MyLearning. Programs include company and industry training curricula, support for formal education through the Tuition Reimbursement Program (Non-Union), and a Learning Management System that supports and enhances employee skills at all levels of the organization.
Novolex is committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices, including but not limited to selection, hiring, promotion, transfer, and compensation to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, handicap or disability, genetics, citizenship status, service member or veteran status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law. Any individual who, because of his or her disability, needs an accommodation in connection with an aspect of the Company's application process should contact myHRservices@novolex.com .
Formerly Pactiv Evergreen
Job Locations US-IL-Lake Forest
ID 2026-33392
Category Supply Chain
Position Type Full Time
Pay Type Salaried
