Urgently looking for a S&OP Manager (Lead / Expert) for a leading and respected business group in the Middle East.

Please note this is a critical senior assignment and Only Male Candidates with experience above 10+ Years in FMCG supply chain will be preferred.

Educational Requirement

- Engineering and MBA (sales/ operations / supply chain ) compulsory

Work experience

Supply chain Planning for at least 7 years . Maximum up to 16 Years

Industry - FMCG ( food and beverage) / Pharma / Adhesive companies

Reporting to - Managing Director

Please note that this is a expat role and the candidate will be provided with a family visa .

Job Description

He will work with the Group's FMCG companies involved in the manufacturing and distribution of FMCG products and exports to Middle East and Africa.

The role primarily involves but not restricted to:

- Responsible for implementing S&OP best practice's & processes

- Responsible for building Customer Service Model with Modern Trade

- Developing overall forecast for the unit considering various parameters such as channel wise, branch wise, exports etc. to build an overall budget.

- Designs, develops, and conducts S&OP meetings (Monthly Business Cycle), providing visibility and communication on sales, demand, distribution, and supply trends in support of business growth.

- Work with finance to cash up the budget and manage gaps if any in target management.

- Partners closely with Business owners and Head office directors to understand their needs and then reflect them in the process.

- Partners closely with Business Leaders of each company to implement the H.O business strategy, validate forecast accuracy and methodology, provide input to inventory and align financial / business plans with the operations plans, through an effective S&OP process.

- Partners closely with Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, Manufacturing and other functions to execute best practices of S&OP process.

- Provide Market, Region and global S&OP reporting to Head Office.

- Key areas of focus will be in closing all gaps related to people, structure, processes and system (SAP: APO, MRP, and BI), and developing the capabilities of the demand planning resources.

- Lead and develop Supply Chain capabilities: Right Structure, Functions, Roles and Responsibilities, Management capabilities, KPI's with Setting targets and reason code analysis, Reporting, Strategies and documenting the best practices with all departments.

- Work with supply chain team to optimize working capital

Key attributes:

- Experience in Logistics with strong appreciation of overall logistics environment

- Strong S&OP fundamentals with expertise in sales, raw material planning & customer service

- Knowledge of Sales Building blocks - baseline sales + promotional inputs = total sales

- Excellent knowledge of SAP platform

- Worked in a business with a large product basket to be able to manage the complexity of the business

Jasmine
https://in.linkedin.com/pub/jasmine-carrol-sequeira/35/447/742

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