Scope: Regional (USA) | Department: S&OP | Employment Type: Full‑time | Exempt
About the Role
Join our BU USA team to lead the execution of the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) cycle—connecting medium/long-term planning with short‑term Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE). You’ll turn data into decisions by surfacing risks, opportunities, and deviations from plan, and driving cross‑functional action plans that protect service, optimize inventory, and support profitable growth.
What You’ll Do
- Build medium & long‑term plans: Generate rolling needs plans for production, purchasing, imports, raw materials, and supplies aligned to the sales plan.
- Run the S&OP ritual: Consolidate weekly/monthly planning routines following the global calendar and ensure connection with the Group’s S&OP Center of Excellence (CoE).
- Monitor execution: Track process adherence and item‑level plans using S&OP tools; identify and present deviations with clear root causes and recommendations.
- Partner on demand planning: Support commercial and demand teams with clean, high‑quality data; identify risks/opportunities that impact the sales plan.
- Solve constraints: Address supply chain bottlenecks proactively to minimize shortages and propose viable alternatives that improve customer service.
- Assess capacities: Analyze operational capacities (operations, logistics, distribution, warehousing) in the short, medium, and long term to ensure feasibility.
- Align purchasing to plan: Ensure buying needs reflect the medium/long‑term S&OP plan; collaborate with planning & purchasing to maintain healthy inventory.
- Lead S&OP cycle meetings: Manage the cadence with leadership to align market demand and operational scenarios, focused on service and profitability.
- Own S&OP KPIs: Define, track, and communicate gaps, opportunities, and required efforts; create and follow through on action plans to meet targets.
- Standardize & improve: Ensure compliance with standards, procedures, and guidelines; promote alignment with the S&OP CoE and advance toward best practices.
- Budget & forecasting support: Lead initiatives with plants/units that facilitate volume, revenue, capacity, bottleneck, investment, inventory, risk, and opportunity alignment.
- Inventory policy: Propose finished‑goods stock policies, calculate safety stock, and assess impacts with local teams and leadership to sustain agreed service levels.
What You Bring
- Education: Bachelor’s degree (preferably in Industrial Engineering or Business Administration).
- Experience: 5+ years preferred in industrial environments (e.g., planning specialist, demand planner, warehouse/distribution supervisor, product analyst, or business analyst).
- Technical Skills:
- Advanced Excel (required/preferred as stated in JD)
- SAP (preferred)
- Microsoft Power BI
- Statistics and planning & control fundamentals (preferred)
- Core Competencies: Strong communication at all levels, analytical thinking, problem solving, conflict resolution, negotiation, active listening, and synthesis.
Tools & Data You’ll Use
Excel (advanced modeling and analysis), SAP (planning & materials), Power BI (dashboards/insights), and S&OP/CoE frameworks and tools.
Why You’ll Love It Here
- Impact a critical business process that directly influences service, inventory health, and profitability.
- Collaborate cross‑functionally across operations, logistics, purchasing, demand/commercial, and leadership.
- Grow within a global S&OP community and Center of Excellence.
Compensation & Benefits
- Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with match, PTO
