S&OP and Demand Planning Manager - Commercial Tires
- Akron, OH
- Permanent
- Full-time
Sponsorship Available: No
Relocation Assistance Available: NoGoodyear. More Driven.About the Position:The Supply Chain Manager, reporting to the Supply Chain Director Commercial LA, leads S&OP and S&OE processes across Latin America, focusing on demand planning to optimize inventory and meet business goals. This role acts as a key link between supply chain and commercial teams, supporting strategic planning, capacity forecasting, and financial targets like EBIT and working capital.Job Duties:
- Develop key relationships with Regional Commercial Product Business unit representatives, Regional Supply Chain organization and Country representatives.
- Manage the S&OP process - drive the cycle activities, consolidation of country data, review/monitor/reporting of performance against designated supply chain KPI's in sales planning, customer service, inventory management.
- Ensure integration between sales, marketing and finance during generation and execution of operational plans.
- Owner of Commercial S&OP decks and any other related document.
- Manage the S&OE process - drive the weekly activities, analyze and report ongoing performance against plan, setup and follow-up on required action items.
- Responsible for validation of requirements and confirmation signals. Ensuring accurate information flow between Go to Market organizations and supply sources.
- Supply Chain representative on new product launch process (Stage and Gate process) for Commercial Product business unit
- Use and maintain the Demand Planning software (APO/DP) as the primary forecasting system tool. Assure that LA product master data is updated. Business process expert for APO DP.
- Interact with production planning to understand gaps and opportunities in product availability.
- Develop sourcing strategies/plan to minimize total delivery cost
- Implementation of SAP MRP Planning process in LA. Business Process Owner for MRP
- Provide recommendations for planning process improvement and performance improvement in LA countries. Share best practices between LA countries about using system, planning process or projects between LA Countries
- Deliver targeted levels of service to end customers in markets to support PBU operation.
- Support inventory strategy, target analysis (8 losses methodology) and Inventory Quality (IQR). Ensure LA inventory levels optimization to minimize net working capital.
- Support Regional sales growth plans by driving supply scenario planning on a production constrained environment.
- Support/enhance long term capacity planning and budget process.
- Engineering, Operations/Supply Chain Management, Administration or Statistical Degree Required
- APICS Certification (CPIM or CSCP) Preferred
- Minimum of 8 years professional experience in Supply Chain area.
- Fluent in English and (Spanish or Portuguese) required.
- Experience on Demand Planning, Supply Planning and Customer Service.
- Proved experiences in multinational environment
- Advanced Excel is mandatory (macro, functions and VBA program).
- Cognos, Hyperion, Tableau, SAP (AP0/DP/MRP) experience (desired)
- Strong Subject Matter Expertise: Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Logistics, Sales and Marketing. Strong Business Acumen.
- Project management experience: Build strong teamwork within and across organization.
- Effective stakeholder engagement, interpersonal skills and communication: Build strong relationships with the senior Managers of the organization and external suppliers.
- Strong Strategic Thinking
- Fluent in English and (Spanish or Portuguese).
- Knowledge in tire or other similar market (desired).