Sales & Ops Planning Manager at Meritor, Inc. in Troy, Michigan

Job Description:

This position will aid in the implementation of a world class S&OP process that aligns strategic planning, finance, supply chain, sales, marketing and product development into a unified planning operating model to make proactive business tradeoff and improvement decisions. The Sales and Operations Planning Manager will actively manage this S&OP process once implemented as well as provide support and leadership to S&OP Leads.

Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible to create capabilities and processes necessary to continuously align demand, inventory, supply, operations, marketing, product innovation – all cross functional areas reconciling to the strategic and tactical objectives of the business through the S&OP process

• Provide S&OP leadership and support to S&OP Lead teams as a subject matter expert

• Leadership capabilities sufficient to develop and implement new business processes and standard tools relying on resources that report to other functions.

• Facilitate the right inputs and outputs and ensure stakeholder alignment to the S&OP cycle to enable decision making on short/medium/long term horizons.

• Seek, provide and present relevant data in an impactful way to support key decisions and to deliver a clear message to the Exec team.

• Ensuring each step is focused on taking improvement and gap closing actions.

• Identify areas for improvements and lead with stakeholders to drive improvement actions

• Support/drive business improvement projects relating to S&OP

• Drive best practice and improve cross-functional alignment to S&OP

• Ensure the appropriate agendas are in place for all S&OP meetings, manage the tracking of actions and shape agendas according to specific business needs.

• To act as gatekeeper; ensuring the main outputs and feedback from S&OP meetings are communicated back out to relevant parties.

• Ensure actions are complete ahead of next S&OP cycle.

• Develop strong relationships and interactions with all S&OP stakeholders.

• Monitor and report specific KPIs in line with S&OP requirements: customer fill rate, forecast accuracy, inventory levels and past due as % sales.

• Work with the Corporate Functional Leaders to:

• Evaluate and implement innovative demand-planning software alternatives as required

• Incorporate demand planning/modeling behavior, trends, influencing factors, volatility, customer behavior, market changes, and other environmental feedback that impacts the statistical forecast

• Support new product introductions and component cannibalization in the statistical forecast engine

• Responsible for fostering and maintaining an effective, positive team-based environment by coaching and communicating the corporate vision/values and setting and managing performance expectations

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain/Logistics, Materials Management, Operations Management, Finance or related field (REQUIRED)

• Advanced degree in related field (MBA, etc.) (DESIRED)

• 8-10 years in Supply Chain, Operations, or Procurement (REQUIRED)

• Past experience leading S&OP or Demand Management Activities (REQUIRED)

• Strong problem assessment and problem solving skills (REQUIRED)

• Familiarity with the Manufacturing Industry (REQUIRED)

• Strong written and verbal communication skills (REQUIRED)

• Able to work independently (REQUIRED).

• Good Team player with the ability to work with all levels of management (REQUIRED).

• Able to work to achieve goals within defined deadlines (REQUIRED)

• APICS or IBF Certification (DESIRED)

• Experience with Manufacturing and Supply Chain MRP software (Oracle, CAS, MFG Pro, SAP) (DESIRED)

• Experience with Demand Forecasting Software (DESIRED)

• Experience with JDA (DESIRED)