Sales and Operations Planner

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Remote Status:
Hybrid

HYBRID | ONSITE AT JOSTENS’ MINNEAPOLIS HEADQUARTERS 3 DAYS/WEEK

The Sales & Operations Planner is responsible for aligning demand, supply, and financial plans to ensure the organization can meet customer demand efficiently and profitably. This role facilitates the S&OP process by integrating inputs from Sales, Operations, Finance, and Supply Chain to create a single, executable plan that balances service, cost, inventory, and capacity.

• Have ownership over a monthly published demand plan that integrates statistical forecasts, sales inputs, customer signals and market trends.
• Be responsible for demand plan performance across rolling 12-24 months, track and improve forecast accuracy.
• Translate demand plan into constrained supply plan, identify any gaps and present scenarios for decision-making.
• Own recommendations on make vs buy and inventory ownership.
• Develop and lead monthly routines based on an annual planning calendar.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to reconcile unit level production and purchase plans against financial targets, key initiatives, productivity, and margin targets.
• Act as the integrator across Sales, Finance and Operations and Procurement, support scenario modeling (capacity changes, demand shifts, inventory build), maintain planning parameters and data accuracy.
• Provide reporting to support business performance management processes; analyze and identify emerging trends, risks, outliers, and solutions to achieve service level targets (delivery constraints, pull forward opportunities, operational issues/ opportunities).
• Manage and design best practices across sales and operations planning processes; drive strategic and continuous improvement activities.
• Partner with IT to manage the utilization, maintenance, and optimization of sales and operations planning tools, including data maintenance.

This role does require the selected candidate to travel 1 week per quarter.

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Operations, Finance, Engineering, or a related field.
• 3–5+ years of experience in S&OP, demand planning, supply planning, or a related supply-chain role.
• Strong understanding of the S&OP / IBP process and cross-functional planning cadence.
• Experience analyzing demand, supply, capacity, and inventory trade-offs.
• Proficiency in Excel (pivot tables, formulas, data analysis).
• Ability to communicate complex planning scenarios clearly to cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
• Experience working in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments with changing priorities.
• Experience in manufacturing, apparel, or seasonal/forecast-driven businesses preferred.
• Exposure to financial planning, AOP, or budget alignment within S&OP preferred.
• APICS / ASCM certification (CPIM, CSCP) or similar credentials preferred.
• Strong data visualization or dashboarding skills (Power BI, Tableau, or similar tools) preferred.
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) a plus.

We care about your health. We offer competitive healthcare (health, dental, vision, coverage) in addition to voluntary benefits including home and car insurance, pet insurance, flexible spending account, amongst many more.
We invest in your future. Our 401K plan has immediate vesting, so you can start saving for retirement right away.
We believe in flexibility. We offer a hybrid schedule with on-site work 3 days a week.
We want you to unplug when needed. We believe in taking your time off without guilt and offer accrued paid time off and company paid holidays.

* For Washington residents, you will receive 13 vacation days, 8 paid sick leave, 11 company paid holidays, and family paid leave.
We care about your development.

We support tuition reimbursement after 6 months of service.
We believe in pay transparency.

September 30, 2026

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