Senior Manager, U.S. S&OP-E

This role is responsible for ensuring the full effectiveness of S&OP and S&OE processes across the entire U.S. organization. It involves defining, coordinating, and optimizing these processes in alignment with global directives and best-in-class industry benchmarks. As the subject matter expert in demand and supply planning, as well as financial forecasting, this position plays a critical role in driving operational excellence.

It ensures that above supply chain processes support business priorities, strategic initiatives, and performance objectives. Additionally, the role oversees and strengthens supply chain health across all business units, delivering measurable improvements against all BUs and global supply chain KPIs. This role has a key commercial connection with all Business Unit teams and works closely with the Supply Chain Leadership Team to ensure that relevant supply chain choices are brought to leadership for visibility and decision making.

• Owns as process owner the end-to-end Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) / Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process, ensuring seamless alignment of demand forecasting, production planning, and inventory management with overarching business objectives.
• Defines and maintains the overall structure, processes, templates, and data cockpits within Power BI, ensuring standardized documentation across all Business Units (BUs). Establishes KPIs to measure process maturity, training effectiveness, and adherence rates.
• Facilitates cross-functional meetings to balance supply and demand, resolve constraints, and drive stakeholder alignment, ensuring consensus-driven decision-making. Drives issue resolution.
• Ensures calendar, meeting flow and templates are in place and that each meeting within the S&OP sequence adheres to established standards, with clear accountability and compliance with the RACI framework and follows Global meeting standards and policies.
• Drives cross-functional collaboration, fostering knowledge-sharing and best-practice adoption across all BUs to continuously refine and enhance S&OP processes.
• Identifies, monitors, and reports key business assumptions, risks, and opportunities, ensuring accountability for mitigation plans and strategic actions while escalating critical issues as needed.
• Manages relationships and facilitates seamless information flow between S&OP functions and internal stakeholders, including Marketing, Finance, Planning, Customer Service, Logistics, and Sales.
• Implements and optimizes systems to automate and streamline S&OP communication and data integration between the U.S. Market, Plants, and Global Supply Chain, leveraging automation for efficiency.
• Leads change management initiatives, driving process improvements, fostering organizational buy-in, and securing leadership support through coaching and mentorship.

• Owns the end-to-end S&OE process, ensuring seamless execution of short-term (0-3 months) demand and supply balancing to support business objectives and customer fulfillment.
• Defines and maintains the structure, processes, templates, and real-time data dashboards (e.g., Power BI) to enhance visibility and responsiveness across the execution horizon. Establishes KPIs to track process efficiency, adherence, and performance improvements.
• Leads cross-functional collaboration, facilitating real-time decision-making between Demand Planning, Suppl