Sales & Operations Planning Manager (S&OP)

Are you ready to take the lead in shaping the future of our local manufacturing operations? As a Sales & Operations Planning Manager, you'll play a role in planning production, optimizing inventory, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure our finished goods are always available when needed. If you love thinking strategically and solving problems, apply today!

Core Responsibilities:

• Plan production of the local factory/site.
• Build (Cut / Add/ Modify) a weekly bucketed Finished Good supply plan.
• Apply strategies that ensure inventory coverage by SKU is maintained to targets agreed with the Supply Inventory Planning team (SIP).
• Ensure weekly supply plan for Final Pack is feasible in the factory/site horizon, while growing factory efficiency by ensuring:
  • Final Pack and Pre-pack machine utilization is balanced.
  • Monthly FMC targets are planned.
  • Labor hours planned based on the latest supply target, and feasible.
  • Pre-Pack changeovers are not above the weekly target.
  • Materials Feasibility above 95%.
  • Simulate long term scenarios of the supply plan.
  • Model the production environment and provide overviews of expected outcomes based on management inputs, such as efficiency, available machines, available labor, demand requirements, production rates, etc.

• Facilitate the local S&OP processes.
• Facilitate monthly meetings with leaders to set the production strategy for local operations, present overviews of current demand and supply, constraints, and business trade-offs.
• Presents recommendations to address operational challenges and support effective decision making.
• Drive actions that reduce barriers to successful execution of the plan.
• Align with other regional sites to set targets.
• Collaborate with partners to generate the best possible quality of strategic discussion, and facilitate alignment.
• Improve your own processes looking for new ways of working using a digitalization approach

Play your part in our team succeeding

• Play an instrumental role in the key planning process of the Company, namely Flow of Finished Goods. This position supports the stability of the daily operations and the availability of the Finished Good at the Distribution Center.

Do you have what it takes?

• Experience driving the production planning processes including Inventory Analysis, Sales & Operations Planning process and digital visualization tools such as Power BI or others.
• Previous experience working with ERP systems, such as SAP
• Demonstrates initiative, thrives in a team setting, and shows strong problem solving skills
• Experience in consumer packaged goods is a plus
• CPIM and/or CSCP Certification a plus

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Compensation

The salary for this position has a range of $100,799.00 - $151,199.00 based on anticipated responsibilities, market benchmarks, and organizational constraints. The LEGO Group carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including but not limited to prior experience, skills, expertise, location, internal equity, and other considerations permitted by law. The comprehensive remuneration details, inclusive of benefits, will be communicated upon finalisation of the employment offer.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here are some of what to expect:

Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing – We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based

Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme

Your workplace – When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team.

We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.

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