SIOP Manager (Finance)
In this highly visible and strategic role as Sales and Inventory and Operations Planning Manager (SIOP), you'll be responsible for leading a cross functional business forecasting process with inputs from key stakeholders and enablers including Marketing & Sales, Finance, Business Development, Engineering, Operations, and Supply Chain. This position provides robust data structures and toolsets, enabling senior level engagement to strategically control and drive the business decision-making processes. Experience and Education:
- Bachelor's Degree required, preferably in Operations, Supply Chain, Business or a related field
- 5-10 years of experience in Operations, Planning, Supply Chain, Inventory, Manufacturing, or Finance
- CPIM, APICS or like certification preferred
Skills / Knowledge:
- Oracle MRP /ERP; Oracle Demantra, Microsoft Office.
- Experience with business planning: processes, data & tools
- Materials and inventory management lean practices
- Ability to effectively communicate to lead collaborative efforts across the business and influence a variety of functional roles, including multiple levels of leadership
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including ability to present to various teams
- Innovative perspective with the ability to stay organized and manage multiple high priority tasks, while ensuring maintenance of attention to detail
- Strong business acumen, business intelligence, and analytical ability to translate our data into digestible business information for multiple stakeholders
- Bachelor's Degree required, preferably in Operations, Supply Chain, Business or a related field
- 5-10 years of experience in Operations, Planning, Supply Chain, Inventory, Manufacturing, or Finance
- CPIM, APICS or like certification preferred
Skills / Knowledge:
- Oracle MRP /ERP; Oracle Demantra, Microsoft Office.
- Experience with business planning: processes, data & tools
- Materials and inventory management lean practices
- Ability to effectively communicate to lead collaborative efforts across the business and influence a variety of functional roles, including multiple levels of leadership
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including ability to present to various teams
- Innovative perspective with the ability to stay organized and manage multiple high priority tasks, while ensuring maintenance of attention to detail
- Strong business acumen, business intelligence, and analytical ability to translate our data into digestible business information for multiple stakeholders
- Facilitate the monthly operating cycles for S&IOP inputs, analysis, and reviews.
- Enable data-driven discovery and decision-making to collaborate with key stakeholders for business process improvements related to demand signals.
- Perform extensive data analytics, including extracting, compiling, reviewing, interpreting, visualizing, and communicating action plan recommendations for Senior Leadership, leveraging multiple business systems, tools, metrics, and reports.
- Lead the formulation of data models, key metrics, and forecasts to communicate and manage the effectiveness of S&IOP inputs, outputs and overall forecast and inventory accuracy
- Leads the material supply phase-in / phase-out transition plans related to new products, changing suppliers, and / or other related activities and incorporates such plans into the SIOP Demand Planning Process.
- For each active item, evaluate demand and supply characteristics and create a Plan for Every Part which ensures consistently high service levels (material availability) while also ensuring that the level of inventory carried is as small as possible.
- Working with other functional departments and with vendors, develop action plans to reduce excess and obsolete inventory while avoiding scrap charges.
- Analyze and calculate inventory entitlement by category and develop plans and take actions to maintain inventory at or below entitlement levels while shipping customer requirements on time and complete.
- Facilitate the monthly operating cycles for S&IOP inputs, analysis, and reviews.
- Enable data-driven discovery and decision-making to collaborate with key stakeholders for business process improvements related to demand signals.
- Perform extensive data analytics, including extracting, compiling, reviewing, interpreting, visualizing, and communicating action plan recommendations for Senior Leadership, leveraging multiple business systems, tools, metrics, and reports.
- Lead the formulation of data models, key metrics, and forecasts to communicate and manage the effectiveness of S&IOP inputs, outputs and overall forecast and inventory accuracy
- Leads the material supply phase-in / phase-out transition plans related to new products, changing suppliers, and / or other related activities and incorporates such plans into the SIOP Demand Planning Process.
- For each active item, evaluate demand and supply characteristics and create a Plan for Every Part which ensures consistently high service levels (material availability) while also ensuring that the level of inventory carried is as small as possible.
- Working with other functional departments and with vendors, develop action plans to reduce excess and obsolete inventory while avoiding scrap charges.
- Analyze and calculate inventory entitlement by category and develop plans and take actions to maintain inventory at or below entitlement levels while shipping customer requirements on time and complete.
