The Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning Manager is a key leadership position, reporting directly to the President, Fairbanks Morse Components. This position will require an experienced S&OP/SIOP leader able to facilitate and drive results in a fast paced and demanding growth environment, leveraging strong interpersonal and leadership skills. This role will be challenged to build and implement a world class Sales and Operations Planning process across several business units to improve customer satisfaction, profitability, inventory management and lead times. The core functions of the position include strategic and tactical decision-making related to balancing demand and supply; aligns volume and mix with capacity and capability; and integrates financial and operating plans within strategic objectives to deliver improved operating and financial results.
Principle Duties and Responsibilities
Manage the aggregation of the demand plan process across product categories, producing a rolling 12-24 month estimate of unconstrained future demand in units.
Conduct rough cut capacity and scenario planning to be able to validate and present data and analytics to facilitate decision making.
Accountable for establishing and managing a SIOP planning processes and ensures that Business Unit teams are properly trained and in place.
Create and implement a strong operations planning process to support Original Equipment and Aftermarket demand for the manufacturing scheduling/production team and the procurement teams.
Develop, monitor, and revise production and sourcing plans, in the short and long term, to optimize the use of manpower, equipment and financial resources while meeting the needs of customers.
Prepare data and material for monthly SIOP meetings that will facilitate decisions around equipment, labor and all other resources needed to support demand over the S&OP planning horizon.
Assist in the documentation of assumptions incorporated in the demand and supply plan and validate past assumptions.
Develop effective methods to utilize various ERP systems for replenishment and forecast implementation.
Coordinate and facilitate the monthly SIOP meetings to achieve the demand plan consensus including strategic, product, sales, and marketing activities as well as supply plan balance and constraints/gaps.
Achieve customer service order fulfillment objectives.
Achieve cost savings through optimizing manufacturing batch sizing.
Coordinate capacity and capabilities across internal sites to maximize utilization of internal resources.
Develop support metrics, tools and reporting that will enable Manufacturing and Procurement teams to achieve these service level and inventory targets.
Work closely with Sales and Product Development on planning/executing the activation and ramp-up for new products and solutions.
Evaluate inventory reports to identify slow moving and obsolete inventories and collaborate with the sales team to develop disposition plans.
Track performance metrics and analysis to identify both opportunities and potential issues within S&OP processes and reporting as well as those across departments; provide insights and recommendations to help improve results.
Work closely with Procurement and Manufacturing functions to evaluate the demand/production plan against inventory, capacity, and external factors and to create mitigation actions if needed.
Facilitate prioritizing demand and/or allocating supply to a customer when demand exceeds supply.
Identify significant business risks and escalate to the appropriate leadership teams.
Ensure efficient communication across functional teams for any trends, drivers, and takeaways in a clear and concise manner.
Identify and implement supply chain initiatives to improve efficiencies, cost, waste reduction and other lean principles.
Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications, Skills and Educational Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, or Logistics.
Minimum of 5 years' experience in Supply Chain (experience in Demand Planning, Supply Planning, and Inventory Planning in an environment of both manufactured and sourced finished goods highly preferred).
APICS Certification preferred, but not required.
Knowledge and experience in Infor MRP and ERP systems (preferred) inventory management, materials requirements planning, item master, demand planning, and advanced supply chain planning and analytics preferred.
Knowledgeable in lean principles/methodologies.
Excellent organizational, project management and time management skills, including multi-tasking and ability to prioritize and meet deadlines, follow up and attention to details. Adaptable to multiple requests, daily changes and still deliver on commitments .
Data-driven with demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems and strong proficiency in MS Office applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
Must be able to work independently while still functioning well in a team environment.
Must have experience working in a matrix environment.
Able to communicate effectively with senior management, peers, and colleagues cross-functionally.
People management experience including strong interpersonal and leadership skills: meeting facilitation, skill sharing and training, organization, conflict management, change agent, manage relationships.
Travel
Up to 25% domestically. Some international possible.
Language
English required, others a plus.
Fairbanks Morse is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, ancestry, national origin, marital status, citizenship status (unless required by the applicable law or government contract), disability or protected veteran status or any other status or characteristic protected by law.
Note: This position requires access or potential access to Unclassified Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information, which is Not Releasable to Foreign Nationals (NOFORN) data. Therefore, to meet NOFORN requirement, you will have to provide proof of US Citizenship and attest that you do not have dual citizenship. Acceptable proof of US Citizenship is a US Passport, US Birth Certificate or Naturalization Certificate.
This specification is intended to indicate the kinds of tasks and levels of work difficulty that will be required of positions that will be given this title and shall not be construed as declaring what the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position shall be. It is not intended to limit or in any way modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct, and control the work of employees under their supervision. Ability to competently perform all the essential duties of the position, with or without reasonable accommodation, demonstrated commitment to effective customer service delivery, and the ability to work productively as a member of a team or work group are basic requirements of all positions at Fairbanks Morse Defense.
