Sr Manager, SIOP

Responsibilities:

• Develop and facilitate the monthly Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SIOP) process for PSG.
• Develop materials for and facilitate monthly SIOP meetings with the PSG Leadership Team.
• Capture action items and follow up with assigned stakeholders to ensure completion. 
• Facilitate closing gaps between the demand and supply plans and the budget plans. Develop scenarios to resolve issues and address business risks.
• Manage the monthly demand planning process, generating statistical forecasts, facilitating demand review with commercial teams, producing a rolling 18-month forecast of unconstrained future demand.
• Manage monthly supply planning process to review and update supply inputs (capacities, throughputs, constraints, etc.) in collaboration with operational stakeholders. 
• Develop and update 18-month rolling supply plans for assigned product groups that incorporate demand, production and outsourcing supply, and inventory.
• Generate and analyze demand and supply planning performance metrics, identify performance gaps and opportunities to improve planning inputs. Support development of SIOP reporting via Power BI platform.
• Collaborate with production, procurement, logistics, and others as needed to review and evaluate the demand/production plan against inventory, capacity and external factors and to create mitigation actions to resolve demand-supply imbalances and gaps.
• Generate item-level forecasts and inventory targets to support SIOP aggregate demand and supply planning, SKU inventory planning, SKU production scheduling.
• Identify and implement SIOP process and scope improvements.
• Develop, implement, and support planning and operations data, metrics, and reporting, including transitioning reports from Excel to Power BI.
• Manage team of planner / analysts to support demand planning, forecasting, reporting, and analysis.
• Other related duties and responsibilities as required or assigned.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, business, logistics, statistics, engineering, and accounting.

Years Of Experience:

• 10 or more years of progressive experience in supply chain planning and operations, including experience managing sales & operations planning, S&OP, SIOP, within manufacturing industries.
• Minimum 5 years of experience required in the areas of demand planning, forecasting, production or materials management.
• Experience managing a team.

Skills:

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills. 
• Demonstrated knowledge of supply chain fundamentals of production/inventory/demand planning and raw material planning/sourcing/purchasing.
• Strong communication skills with ability to communicate complex business problems to all levels in the organization.
• Strong leadership skills and proactive work ethic.
• People management skills, including ability to develop team members and delegate effectively.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects concurrently.
• Self-starter and ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Proficient in use of Microsoft Office, in particular Excel for data manipulation and analysis (including pivot tables, XLOOKUP, formulas).
• Experience building reports and dashboards using Power BI is a plus. 
• Experience working with ERP, MPR, forecasting, production planning & scheduling software systems preferred (e.g. Microsoft Dynamics D365, ForecastX).

Physical Demands / Work Environment:

• Normal office environment.
• Travel up to 20% as needed.

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