Sales and Operations Planning Manager

Job Description : SALES AND OPERATIONS PLANNING MANAGER MALAYSIA A leading steel manufacturing company is recruiting for a Sales and Operations Planning Manager in Kuala Lumpur to develop and manage clients, suppliers and stakeholders (internal and external). About the Sales and Operations Planning Manager Role: In this business critical role, you will be a single point of contact to seamless supply chain. You will drive monthly S&OP meetings with the customers and suppliers, and work closely with the sales and planning team. Key Responsibilities: · Further improve and develop the S&OP framework · Manage the monthly S&OP process to support the business strategy · Drive S&OP, developing action plans with cross functional stakeholders to meet annual objectives including inventory, customer expectation and recoveries · Ensure and communicate an executable production plan · Establish seamless internal relationships with customer facing functions (sales, supply chain) · Serve as the subject matter expert for supply planning, demand planning, network optimisation, and capacity · Research business issues to identify potential problems that need to be raised to. This may include deep dive analysis of specific topic or area of concern · Identify significant current or potential supply performance problems and capacity imbalances · Develop a consensus demand forecast, quarterly forecast and annual business budget To succeed in this Sales and Operations Planning Manager role, you must have a deep understanding of a diverse customer base and must have excellent communication skills which they utilise when instructing and directing employees. Key Requirements: · Communication – ability to sell a message both to individuals and wider groups and at different levels within the company · Analytical Ability – the capacity to understand a problem and come to a reasoned conclusion. This based on data derived from SAP and other departmental systems · Relationship Building – The ability to build and maintain effective relationships with others especially in a diverse workforce, across businesses · Degree qualified Supply chain, Mathematics/Statistics, Business · Experience in setting up and running a sales and operations planning environment · Strong negotiation and influencing skills · Direct exposure to demand management and production planning.

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