Senior Manager – Sales – Inventory & Operations Planning

Senior Manager – Sales – Inventory & Operations Planning

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, or Logistics
• MBA or Master’s degree in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Finance, or equivalent
• 5-10 years of experience in Supply Chain (Demand Planning, Supply Planning, and Inventory Planning in an environment of both manufactured and sourced finished goods) and/or related supply chain management including design, implementation, and execution of S&OP-related processes

Responsibilities

• Effectively own and drive inventory reduction management process across Onto Business Units by working with leaders across the enterprise to drive governance and accountability to target
• Execute the monthly management of the SI&OP process capturing the status and challenges in a monthly dashboard to cross functional stakeholders
• Ensure standardized templates and data sources are developed and executed each month within the agreed calendar allowing issues and actions to be raised holistically to each department and Business Unit
• Execute the key “Control Tower” sequence with Finance ensuring buy-in from each Finance sub-team, and consistent story/message build on the SI&OP issues and actions
• Preparation of a variety of monthly SI&OP reports suitable for presentation for senior management, combining demand and supply topics
• Responsible for compiling data from different sources, analyzing and providing insights
• Liaise with the different departments and outside stakeholders and partners to follow up on any challenges or discrepancies within the data. Participate in/lead ad-hoc analytical projects as needed
• Facilitates conversations and updates data to support scenario planning for capacity-based decisions including customer forecast changes, insourcing/outsourcing of work, and changes in internal capacity
• Drive sales efficiency when providing forecast and customer demand to help drive management approved production plan
• Provide best practices, and problem resolution for escalated requests
• Develop, mentor, and provide guidance, training and feedback to all Onto SI&OP constituents
• Establish cross-functional implementation of SI&OP by forming clear roles and responsibilities, defined end to end process steps, and strategy alignment
• Able to communicate effectively with senior management, peers, and colleagues cross-functionally
• People management experience including strong interpersonal and leadership skills: meeting facilitation, skill sharing and training, organization, conflict management, change agent, manage relationships
• Drive key meetings and ensure attendees are held accountable
• Strong leadership skills. Ability to lead, contribute, and influence others in a team-based organization
• Partner with stakeholders and leaders to develop a system roadmap and strategy for process improvement and automation to solve business problems
• Lead global inventory management projects
• Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements or issues, work to build consensus
• Working knowledge of modern manufacturing, material flow, and improvement strategies (e.g. ELS, continuous flow, cellular, etc.) and the ability to integrate those into the operation
• Demonstrated understanding of financial systems and the key drivers within the manufacturing environment
• Understanding of applicable computer systems, such as Microsoft Office, and function-specific software
• Proficiency with Oracle software

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.