Description
We are seeking a Senior Manager of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) to join our team. As a Sr Mgr of S&OP, you will be responsible for executing commodity/category strategies worldwide, ensuring alignment with internal objectives and external realities to maximize efficiencies of technologies, processes, and solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Manage a team of senior-level exempt individual contributors and lower-level people managers with strategic implications across organizations and/or functions.
- Ensure delivery of products and services that meet performance metrics defined by senior management.
- Consult with business leaders to guide and influence strategic decision-making within a broad scope.
- Create new operational efficiencies and cost savings within the supply chain on a broad scale.
- Plan, direct, and monitor activities of Staff from a strategic level, ensuring that operations achieve key business metrics.
- Oversee the development and delivery of complex initiatives that can impact the supply chain globally.
Requirements:
- First level university degree or equivalent experience; advanced university degree preferred.
- Typically 10+ years of experience in a supply chain function (or related fields).
- Typically 2-4 years of people management experience.
- Advanced knowledge of procurement and supply chain business requirements and strategies.
- Advanced written, verbal, and presentation skills.
- Thorough knowledge of marketplace and industry standards and compliance.
- Advanced qualitative and quantitative analytics and data modelling skills.
- Advanced project management and project sponsorship skills.
- Advanced people management skills, including managing teams across geographies.
- Advance influencing, consulting, and negotiation skills.