S&OP Director

Davis-Standard stands as a premier entity in the innovation, development, and distribution of extrusion and converting technologies. Our extensive systems cover over fourteen product lines tailored to support manufacturing applications across diverse sectors, including automotive, construction, consumer goods, healthcare, and packaging. We operate manufacturing and technical facilities across multiple countries.

The S&OP / IBP Director is accountable for designing, implementing, and leading a disciplined Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process, evolving toward Integrated Business Planning (IBP), to align demand, supply, and financial objectives. This role serves as the enterprise integrator across Commercial, Operations, Supply Chain, Program Management, and Finance to ensure a single set of aligned plans, clear trade-off decisions, and execution accountability.

Reporting to the Vice President of Operations, the role owns the end-to-end S&OP operating model (governance, cadence, decision rights, metrics, and escalation), delivers the consolidated Operations Plan and Master Schedule inputs required to meet the Sales order book, and ensures plans are financially validated (revenue, margin, cost, and working capital). The position requires strong analytical capability, executive influence, and the ability to build a scalable, repeatable planning capability in a complex manufacturing environment.

• Design, implement, and continuously mature the S&OP operating model, including governance, roles and responsibilities, meeting cadence, decision rights, and escalation paths.
• Own the end-to-end monthly S&OP cycle and ensure disciplined execution of all steps:
  Demand Review, Supply Review, Pre-S&OP, and Executive S&OP.
• Establish and maintain a “one-number plan” philosophy across functions to drive alignment, transparency, and accountability.
• Ensure Executive S&OP meetings result in documented decisions, aligned priorities, and accountable actions with owners and due dates.
• Maintain an S&OP policy framework (forecasting standards, backlog/order book rules, capacity allocation principles, inventory targets, and service commitments).

• Lead the demand planning process in collaboration with Commercial leadership, including assumptions, demand drivers, and demand shaping actions.
• Improve forecast quality by establishing forecasting standards, governance, and root-cause analysis of forecast error.
• Implement a consistent demand planning approach across product lines to improve planning relevance and accuracy.
• Provide early warning of demand risks/opportunities and recommend actions to mitigate volatility or capture upside.

• Lead supply planning to deliver an executable plan aligned to capacity, material availability, supplier constraints, inventory targets, and service requirements.
• Own capacity planning process, translate constraints into decisions and mitigation plans.
• Align S&OP outputs with master scheduling inputs and procurement planning; ensure feasible promise dates and realistic lead times.
• Facilitate cross-functional balancing decisions across backlog priorities, capacity allocation, outsourcing, inventory positioning, and customer commitments.
• Build and maintain a rolling constraints and mitigation plan (bottlenecks, long-lead components, supplier capacity, and internal throughput limits).

• Partner with Finance to translate forecast plans into financial outcomes (revenue, margin, cost, cash, and working capital).
• Reconcile S&OP plans with the financial forecast (budget, latest estimate/outlook) and ensure gaps are clearly identified with actions and owners.
• Lead scenario planning and sensitivity analysis (upside/downside demand, mix changes, inflation/supplier cost changes, capacity constraints, expedite strategies) and quantify financial impacts.
• Partner with Finance to maintain and communicate a rolling financial risk and opportunity view tied to the operational plan, including…