Your Tasks- Lead and govern the monthly S&OP cycle, including Account Prep, Brand Health, and Consensus , ensuring connectivity and consistency across the different forums.
- Serve as an active member of the S&OP Core Team , supporting the Core Team Lead and Co-Lead in driving the S&OP agenda, priorities, governance, and ways of working.
- Coordinate the operating rhythm of the S&OP Core Team, including scheduling meetings, preparing agendas and materials, documenting key decisions and action items, tracking follow-ups, and ensuring topics progress between meetings .
- Plan, prepare, and facilitate S&OP workshops and working sessions ,
- Bring structure, clarity, and forward momentum to S&OP topics by proactively identifying required next steps, owners, dependencies, and decisions.
- Operate with a high degree of independence, proactively driving topics forward and engaging the appropriate stakeholders without requiring continuous direction from the Core Team Lead or Co-Lead.
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of the assumptions behind each component of the business plan, including KAP, SISO, and OMP , and their impact on the consensus plan.
- Serve as the central point connecting assumptions across functions, proactively identifying, challenging, and resolving conflicting assumptions.
- Ensure S&OP discussions are timely, structured, fact-based, and focused on the key decisions required from the organization.
- Facilitate trade-off discussions with clear articulation of risks, opportunities, financial implications, service impacts, and planning considerations .
- Identify topics requiring Executive S&OP visibility and partner with the Senior Demand Planning Manager to determine appropriate escalation and decision requirements.
- Prepare and deliver executive-level S&OP materials, translating complex data and assumptions into concise, actionable business insights.
- Provide the Director of Planning and Senior Manager of Demand Planning with clear fact-based assumptions, business context, risks, and decision points to enable effective leadership of Executive S&OP.
- Proactively drive continuous improvement of S&OP processes, tools, governance, and ways of working.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, transparency, and proactive problem-solving across the S&OP process.
- Lead strategic and operational planning projects based on evolving business requirements and organizational priorities .
- Manage cross-functional initiatives involving partners across Planning, COE, Controlling, Finance, Supply Chain, Sales, Marketing, and other relevant functions , depending on project scope.
- Establish clear project objectives, scope, deliverables, milestones, ownership, and governance to ensure successful execution.
- Develop and manage project plans, proactively identifying dependencies, risks, resource constraints, and potential roadblocks.
- Coordinate activities across multiple stakeholders and functions, ensuring alignment on expectations, timing, responsibilities, and intended outcomes.
- Facilitate cross-functional working sessions and decision-making forums, ensuring discussions translate into clear actions, owners, and next steps.
- Monitor project progress and proactively escalate risks, decisions, or resource requirements when necessary.
- Translate complex business needs into structured planning solutions, processes, tools, and ways of working .
- Support implementation and change management for new planning processes, capabilities, tools, or organizational ways of working.
Your Profile- 5-10+ years of experience in Supply Chain, Demand Planning, S&OP, Business Planning, Project Management, or related functions .
- Demonstrated experience leading complex cross-functional processes or projects.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across functions without direct authority.
- Experience managing projects from problem definition through implementation and transition into business-as-usual processes.
- Experience in FMCG / Consumer Goods preferred.
- Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and priorities.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to connect detailed planning assumptions with broader business and financial implications.
- Ability to challenge assumptions constructively and facilitate fact-based decision-making.
- Ability to translate complex data and business issues into clear executive-level insights and recommendations.
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, cross-functional, and ambiguous environment.
- Proficiency in planning systems and analytical tools such as SAP, APO/IBP, Excel, and Power BI.
- Ability to lead through influence and create alignment across functions.
- Strong ownership, accountability, and bias for action.
- Ability to bring structure and clarity to complex or ambiguous business challenges.
- Strong decision-making and prioritization skills.
- Confident facilitator who can constructively challenge assumptions while maintaining collaborative relationships.
- Ability to move between strategic thinking and detailed execution .
- Collaborative, solution-oriented, and continuous-improvement mindset.
Base Salary Range: $118,900.00 - $149,100.00 base salary
Actual placement within the compensation range may vary depending on experience, skills and other factors.
S&OP and Planning Project Manager leads the end-to-end S&OP process and strategic planning initiatives, ensuring alignment across demand, supply, commercial, and financial plans. As a key member of the S&OP Core Team, the role supports the coordination of meetings, agendas, decisions, actions, and cross-functional workshops. Acting as a connector across Planning, COE, Finance, and business partners, the Manager drives alignment, accountability, and execution while proactively advancing priorities, risks, opportunities, and project outcomes with a high degree of ownership and independence
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