S&OE Manager

Your role at Clorox:

The S&OE (Sales & Operations Execution) Manager supports their Business Unit (BU) by leading the S&OE process across the BU and working cross-functionally to identify variances in actual performance on both demand and supply within the designated execution window. They orchestrate and recommend strategic decisions to re-synchronize demand and supply by clearly identifying the problem statement, recommending proposed solutions, and highlighting relevant tradeoffs in order to execute the plan.

In this role, you will:

S&OE Planning

• Drives weekly S&OE process across 0–2 month time horizon, implementing near-term planning against BU constrained forecast and integrated business plan.
• Tracks execution, identifies demand and supply gaps to S&OP plan, and drives balanced demand / supply resolution, in coordination with impacted functions and stakeholders.
• Assesses and balances tradeoffs to strategically to meet near-term BU goals, which are escalated in weekly BU S&OE Meeting to IBP Lead and GM as warranted.

Execution

• Proactively identifies and escalates risks to forecast consumption, service levels, and inventory to deliver against the demand plan.
• Highlights opportunities to improve delivery of plan (e.g. higher service level, lower cost, etc.) within the execution window by tracking production variances, FDOS, Case Fill, Working Capital.
• Monitors innovation, promotions and item transitions to ensure proper supply and demand plans are in place.
• Triggers and co-leads allocation strategy & demand shaping actions as needed.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Coordinates across BU (e.g. BU Leadership Team / Supply Chain Squad) to ensure delivery of short term plan, and appropriately escalates of issues in a timely manner.
• Acts as the primary downstream POC on S&OE plan for logistics and customer operations.
• Coordinates with Business Planning Mgr. / Network Planning Mgr. to flag trending issues that need to be incorporated into longer term supply plans going forward.
• Actively champions and contributes to S&OE community for best practice sharing.

Talent Development

• Directly manages inventory planner (e.g. performance evaluations, career development).
• Mentors, develops, and trains team members.

What we look for:

• BS/BA Degree from an accredited institution (or equivalent experience)
• 5+ years of work experience in Business Planning, Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Supply Chain, or similar roles
• Experience using advanced planning software tools
• Consumer Packaged Goods experience
• Leadership and influence in both proactive and reactive, and ambiguous situations
• Experience in setting priorities and meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Demonstrated strong aptitude in analysis, root-cause identification, and problem solving to clearly articulate next steps towards resolution
• Exceptional communicator
• Ability to build strong relationships across the functions and levels
• Previous Management of direct report (train, develop)
• Forward looking, strategic thinking to create clear problem statements to assess level of risk, potential solutions
• Ability to synthesize disparate data into coherent, forward-looking business strategies and tactics for advancing business priorities, with management/LT support.
• Strong financial competence, including understanding of working capital & P&L implications of overall supply chain and network balancing choice
• Strong analytic skillset and familiarity with data science applications, systems
• Ability to recognize trends within data and translate that back into short-term demand & supply plan narrative.
• In depth understanding of how to build an inventory strategy and the drivers that impact inventory strategy
• High data fluency and digital dexterity
• Exposure to customer operations with capacity to be able to understand and respond to changes in demand drivers High fluency / dexterity in working with data.
• Strong understanding of E2E supply chain, potential tradeoffs, and impact on short term execution
• Ideally candidate has experience in SAP, Kinaxis Rapid Response or similar systems

Workplace type:

Hybrid - 3 days in the office, 2 days WFH

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