Sales And Operations Planning Manager

The opportunity

Lead and engage the units within the scope (Global/HUB) to ensure the process is on track with continuous participation by all contributors in the S&OP process, factory and HUB wise. Foster collaboration and understanding across all levels of the organization, ensuring that each functional area recognizes its impact on the S&OP process, driving operational excellence and sustainability in compliance with Business Guidelines while providing the training needed to enhance performance and standardization

How You’ll Make An Impact

• Ensure timely execution of all S&OP steps, educating stakeholders, arranging smooth information flow, conducting meetings effectively, and monitoring the execution of decisions with escalation when necessary. Collaborate closely to ensure that S&OP process supports organization’s objectives
• Accountable for developing and maintaining a reliable demand/supply plan, promoting forecasting accuracy, developing scenarios, assessing associated risks and constraints (external and internal), and propose mitigation strategies. Simultaneously, analyze resource requirements and investigate interdependencies.
• Sales & Operations Planning process standardization implementing consistent procedures across the organization to improve efficiency and compliance.
• Guide the organization to effectively track, analyze, and improve its S&OP process by establishing relevant performance indicators aligned with the organization goals. She or he will implement systematic methods for accurate data collection, identifying through analysis the areas for improvement. Ensuring that all processes comply with regulatory requirements and internal standards and holding teams accountable for their performance.
• Mentoring and training team members and stakeholders on the S&OP process, tools, and techniques, creating a culture of continuous improvement and engagement in the S&OP framework.
• Promote digitalization by utilization of full technology in S&OP process wherever is possible, and leverage automation opportunities to reduce manual effort, speed up processes, and minimize errors.
• Enhance efficiency in S&OP process via ITM methodology to support a continuous improvement environment measurable through the corresponding performance metrics.
• Establish a reporting discipline culture by creating a dashboard to track key performance indicators (KPIs) that measure the efficiency and effectiveness of S&OP reviews and demand/supply forecast improvements. Create reporting routines to communicate performance results to the factory, HUB, and BU levels.
• Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
  
  

Your background

• Bachelor’s degree in business or engineering
• 10 years of manufacturing experience or similar role
• Preferred international recognized certification (IBF, APICS)
• Knowledge of S/4 ERP and MS Excel
• Technical Project Management requires specific technical knowledge to plan, organize, and control resources, procedures, and timing for a technical process or project including.
• Developing detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports, conducting risk analysis and monitoring the progress of plans against project milestones and budgets.
• Providing technical and analytical guidance to the project team.
• Ensuring adherence to quality standards and review of project deliverables. Analyzing and documenting requirements by liaising with a range of users in the organization. On some projects, where applicable, they manage the integration of vendor tasks and tracks and reviews vendor deliverables.
  
  

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future through innovative power grid technologies with digital at the core. Over three billion people depend on our technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century in pioneering mission-critical technologies like high-voltage, transformers, automation, and power electronics, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time – balancing soaring electricity demand, while decarbonizing the power system.

Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 50,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $16 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.

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