Seco - Sales & Operations Planning Cross-Brands Lead

Description: Are you ready to take on a role that connects strategy, collaboration, and operational excellence? As our Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) Cross-Brands Lead, you play a pivotal part in aligning multiple brands within business area Machining to create a seamless, transparent, and efficient planning environment. This is your opportunity to influence supply chain performance across global divisions, optimize processes, and drive impactful change.

Shortly About Us: Were transforming into a unified, intelligent supply chain that anticipates needs, empowers people, and drives profitable growth. This is a step toward creating a world-class customer experience through streamlined processes, advanced analytics, and sustainable logistics. By modernizing technology and fostering a high-performing, collaborative culture, were building an end-to-end supply chain that delivers reliability, transparency, and efficiency.

About The Job:

- Youre responsible for leading cross-brand S&OP processes, ensuring alignment and efficiency across divisions.

- You optimize demand, supply, and inventory through shared forecasting, coordinated production and sourcing, and balanced inventories. Your work enables smooth collaboration, optimized inventory, and improved supply chain transparency. You report to the Head of Global Planning.

Key responsibilities include:

- Owning tactical and operational relationships between brands to manage supply seamlessly.

- Establishing clear governance for escalations and accountability across divisions.

- Driving joint planning processes to balance demand and supply, avoiding duplication and inefficiencies.

- Leading cross-brand sourcing discussions to maximize utilization of production and distribution capacity.

- Enabling seamless order handling and harmonized processes across brands.

- Optimizing IT integrations and data transparency for accurate, real-time decision-making.

- Driving best-practice sharing and ensuring alignment on end-to-end performance management across our brands and collaborations.

The location for this position is globally flexible, preferably close to one of our sites such as Fagersta & Stockholm (Sweden), Guanzate (Italy), Pune (India), Bourges & Bouxwiller (France), Lottum (Netherlands), Ciechanow (Poland) or Reynoldsville (US).

Your profile:

- Were looking for someone with experience in S&OP processes, supply chain planning, and cross-functional collaboration, preferably within a global company and multiple industries.

- Youre skilled in inventory optimization, demand-supply balancing, and IT system integration.

- Strong analytical capabilities and knowledge of data structures are essential, along with experience driving process improvements across multiple brands. Acting in a global environment calls for fluency in English.

- Youre a natural collaborator who builds trust and drives alignment across diverse teams.

- You have excellent communication skills, a proactive mindset, and the ability to lead discussions and influence decisions.

- Strategic thinking, problem-solving, and adaptability are key strengths that help you thrive in a complex, fast-paced environment.

Our Seco culture: At Seco, we're united by a spirit of collaboration and a shared curiosity to learn and grow. We take responsibility for our actions, stay focused on our customers, and believe in winning together. For us, its also clear that our diversities form an amazing foundation for achieving great results. Curious about our workplace and benefits? Read more on our website. Youre also welcome to visit our LinkedIn or Facebook to get to know usand our products further.

At Seco Tools we develop and offer advanced products & solutions that make metal cutting easier. We work together with our customers to identify and implement the best solutions for their needs. The corporate culture empowers employees through shared values: Curiosity, Responsibility, Winning together and Customer focus. Seco Tools has a presence in more than 75 countries and employs about 4000 people.