Senior Manager – Demand Planning and SIOP

Senior Manager – Demand Planning and SIOP

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, or related field
• MBA preferred
• 10+ years Supply Chain experience
• 5+ years of direct experience in either plant operations, sourcing, materials planning, forecasting, or sales and inventory planning
• Minimum of 5 years of supervisory/leadership experience required
• Excellent planning, problem solving, analytical skills and advanced Excel skills
• Highly skilled in building valued partnerships with stakeholders
• Communicating effectively
• Influencing senior leaders
• Leading change
• Applying emotional intelligence
• Managing projects
• Understanding analytics
• Results oriented individual with a proactive approach to problem-solving and strong sense of urgency
• Demonstrated track record of results in a dynamic environment
• Demonstrated ability to hire, coach, manage, and lead others
• Experience in change management

Responsibilities

• Lead the Demand Planning team and develop a comprehensive SIOP and Forecasting processes for the $1.5B Outdoors group
• Support the vision to align the 4 BU’s toward a consensus SIOP process
• Facilitate consensus and drive process improvements
• Drive service level management process that ensures world-class performance while optimizing inventory levels
• Ensure appropriate KPI’s in place to drive supply planning and execution at high-level (including forecast accuracy, service performance, and inventory productivity)
• Support key event planning and analysis to ensure timely execution and minimize cost impact
• Drive accountability and countermeasures as necessary to improve performance
• Lead the Outdoors SIOP monthly process
• Increase demand planning intelligence to drive improved SIOP and forecast accuracy, resulting in reduced plant operating costs and improved inventory efficiency
• Collaborate/partner with Commercial team on monthly demand plan and annual operating plan
• Lead weekly service level meetings with key stakeholders in place for each BU
• Establish forecast accuracy metrics and improve current KPI’s to drive performance and tracking
• Evaluate ROI of SKU level forecasting/planning
• Identify SIOP and forecast risks and develop effective mitigation plans
• Develop capacity planning models for each BU
• Conduct scenario planning and tradeoff analysis to recommend optimal supply chain performance
• Identify and evaluate potential new forecasting and supply planning systems to improve efficiency, forecast accuracy, service and inventory management

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.