Manager Sales Inventory & Operations Planning

As the Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning Manager, your role will be to execute the Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning (SIOP) processes across Briggs & Stratton's Commercial Service Channel to improve customer satisfaction, profitability, plant and supply chain optimization, inventory turnover and working capital. You will provide strategic direction to balance supply and demand and align volume and mix with capacity and capability to improve operating and financial results.

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• Managing the SIOP function: facilitating demand planning discussions with customers, translating demand to operational and supply chain unitary requirements; facilitating operational capacity plan development; establishing forecasts to suppliers; identifying risks to production; and communicating expectations versus financial plans and customer expectations back through to executive leadership.

• Applying statistical analysis, business intelligence, and econometrics to develop demand plans for forecast and production use.

• Engaging with Sales/Marketing, Operations, and Supply Chain, and Finance to identify continuous improvement opportunities within the SIOP process. Eliminate silos between functions through cross-functional collaboration.

• Championing improvements to the current SIOP process, including product family level analysis: average unit price, lead time, backlog management, capacity, inventory planning, supply chain risk development. Develop and implement effective re-engineered and automated SIOP processes to replace current manual processes.

• Establishing common metrics, data definitions and business processes to support customer service, inventory, and demand/forecast improvements.

• Documenting and maintaining procedures and processes to ensure system and data accuracy and integrity.

• Support resource/equipment/material decisions with SIOP analytics.

• Aligning with Sales/Marketing, Operations, and Supply Chain on standard processes and guidelines for preferred parts management.

• Staying on top of new technologies and systems as potential improvements and modernizations to the current process.

• Leading a team that will work directly with customers, gathering demand quantifying those needs and financializing them for forecasting purposes. Used in business planning and operations.

• Strong analytical skills with an ability to summarize data to drive decision making.

• Strong written, oral and interpersonal skills.

• Strong negotiation skills

• Demonstrated ability to be organized, flexible and easily adaptable in a changing and fast paced working environment.

• Ability to to develop, foster and maintain effective working relationships with diverse groups of people within the organization.

• Proven ability to integrate financial and operating plans with strategic objectives to deliver well in high pressure situations.

• Working well in high pressure situations in order to meet deadlines and accountability for delivering on commitments.

• Advanced ability to make fact-based decisions with a sense of calculated risk.

• Approaching problems strategically to provide alternative solutions and/or resolutions.

• Data driven, with a demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.

• MS Office applications

• Fluent in English and the primary language used in the area of responsibility and/or location.Advanced written, oral and interpersonal skills

• Demonstrated confidence and maturity to work with all levels of the organization

• Demonstrated ability to be organized, flexible and easily adapt to evolving and fast-paced working conditions

Experience Requirements:

• Five years progressive experience in Planning or Master Production Scheduling with experience in Sourcing, Purchasing and Logistics

• Two years of direct management experience in a consumer goods or manufacturing company, preferred

• Working knowledge and experience with resource planning systems (Oracle, SAP, JD Edwards, Microsoft Dynamics) and Word, Excel , Powerpoint, preferred

• Working knowledge of Low Cost Country Sourcing, International Logistics, Contract Manufacturing, Total Landed Cost and Total Cost of Ownership, INCOTERMS and trade compliance, preferred

Certifications Preferred

APICS Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM)