Now Hiring - Sr. Manager - Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning in Maple Shade, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Lead the monthly Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SIOP) process in delivering a predictable, reliable cross-functionally integrated Plan that aligns with the company’s objectives with a focus on balancing demand and supply, optimizing inventory, and minimizing lead-times.
• Embed structure, discipline, and continuous improvement into the SIOP process to enable robust, efficient action planning and decision making. Monitor functional group adherence to SIOP procedures, roles and responsibilities, and timelines.
• Oversee monthly SIOP process including scheduling meetings, coordinating content input, and preparing the Executive SIOP meeting deck, capturing action items, and issuing meeting minutes.
• Formulate and develop a strategic roadmap to mature the SIOP function and process.
• Be a change agent by continuously identifying, assessing, and leveraging process, technology, and capability enhancements.
• Develop, maintain, and utilize a Balanced Scorecard of KPIs to align performance with financial, operational, and strategic objectives.
• Work closely with Manufacturing, Procurement, and Logistics to ensure sufficient capacity exists in the supply and distribution networks.
• Enhance reporting for monthly/quarterly/annual reviews and drive story telling with data.
• Leverage analytics to provide timely data insights and recommendations to stakeholders throughout various areas of the organization.
• Set and maintain inventory targets. Monitor and maintain visibility to inventory health, evaluating performance, and proactively driving attention and marshalling required resources to develop and execute action plans to resolve issues.
• Synthesize large amounts of data, decompose complex problems, and communicate across various levels of the organization using a variety of communication techniques including data visualization.
• Oversee lifecycle planning (new production introduction (NPI) and end-of-life activities). And actively engage all stake holders to balance expectations with SIOP performance

Requirements:

• Be an inspiring and authentic leader, with demonstrated strength in coaching and developing a team, both employees and managers of others
• Experience implementing and leading a SIOP/S&OP/IBP process with a proven track record of achieving financial, service, and operational performance targets.
• Strong E2E Business / Supply Chain Understanding; understands tradeoffs of balancing revenue, margin, and inventory to achieve sustainable, profitable growth.
• Strong interpersonal skills with an ability to collaborate and communicate effectively both cross-functionally and with executive leadership, senior management, peers, and team members.
• Experience developing and executing innovative solutions that delivered a step-change in business results.
• Influencing & relationship building skills to drive action with appropriate urgency across critical cross-functional partnerships.
• Exceptional ability to think creatively, generate options, build consensus, and execute.
• Demonstrated success navigating ambiguity and being resilient in a dynamic multi-faceted business environment.
• Lead and solve complex organizational problems with a focus on continuous improvement.
• 10+ years of strategic and in-depth, hand-on planning and operations experience
• Capable of developing talent, inspiring new ways of working, building resiliency, and leading an organization to excellence
• Seasoned people manager skilled at establishing goals, motivating and holding people accountable, and driving results through metrics.
• Strong business, operational, financial and root cause acumen with a corrective action mindset
• Strong project leadership, strategy development, process design, and change management skills.
• Excel at simplifying complex operational issues and turning data into actionable insights through the use of data visualization.
• Turn data into actionable business insights.
• Passion for driving continuous improvement; mature existing processes, systems, etc.
• Strong executive presence and storytelling
• Knowledge and experience using ERP (Infor-LN preferred) and planning systems required; implementation experience a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Operations Research, Mathematics, Engineering, or Business Management