Planning Projects & S&OP Manager

Your Tasks

• Lead and govern the monthly S&OP cycle, including Account Prep, Brand Health, and Consensus, ensuring connectivity and consistency across the different forums.
• Serve as an active member of the S&OP Core Team, supporting the Core Team Lead and Co-Lead in driving the S&OP agenda, priorities, governance, and ways of working.
• Coordinate the operating rhythm of the S&OP Core Team, including scheduling meetings, preparing agendas and materials, documenting key decisions and action items, tracking follow-ups, and ensuring topics progress between meetings.
• Plan, prepare, and facilitate S&OP workshops and working sessions, 
• Bring structure, clarity, and forward momentum to S&OP topics by proactively identifying required next steps, owners, dependencies, and decisions.
• Operate with a high degree of independence, proactively driving topics forward and engaging the appropriate stakeholders without requiring continuous direction from the Core Team Lead or Co-Lead.
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of the assumptions behind each component of the business plan, including KAP, SISO, and OMP, and their impact on the consensus plan.
• Serve as the central point connecting assumptions across functions, proactively identifying, challenging, and resolving conflicting assumptions.
• Ensure S&OP discussions are timely, structured, fact-based, and focused on the key decisions required from the organization.
• Facilitate trade-off discussions with clear articulation of risks, opportunities, financial implications, service impacts, and planning considerations.
• Identify topics requiring Executive S&OP visibility and partner with the Senior Demand Planning Manager to determine appropriate escalation and decision requirements.
• Prepare and deliver executive-level S&OP materials, translating complex data and assumptions into concise, actionable business insights.
• Provide the Director of Planning and Senior Manager of Demand Planning with clear fact-based assumptions, business context, risks, and decision points to enable effective leadership of Executive S&OP.
• Proactively drive continuous improvement of S&OP processes, tools, governance, and ways of working.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, transparency, and proactive problem-solving across the S&OP process.
• Lead strategic and operational planning projects based on evolving business requirements and organizational priorities.
• Manage cross-functional initiatives involving partners across Planning, COE, Controlling, Finance, Supply Chain, Sales, Marketing, and other relevant functions, depending on project scope.
• Establish clear project objectives, scope, deliverables, milestones, ownership, and governance to ensure successful execution.
• Develop and manage project plans, proactively identifying dependencies, risks, resource constraints, and potential roadblocks.
• Coordinate activities across multiple stakeholders and functions, ensuring alignment on expectations, timing, responsibilities, and intended outcomes.
• Facilitate cross-functional working sessions and decision-making forums, ensuring discussions translate into clear actions, owners, and next steps.
• Monitor project progress and proactively escalate risks, decisions, or resource requirements when necessary.
• Translate complex business needs into structured planning solutions, processes, tools, and ways of working.
• Support implementation and change management for new planning processes, capabilities, tools, or organizational ways of working.

Your Profile

• 5–10+ years of experience in Supply Chain, Demand Planning, S&OP, Business Planning, Project Management, or related functions.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex cross-functional processes or projects.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across functions without direct authority.
• Experience managing projects from problem definition through implementation and transition into business-as-usual processes.
• Experience in FMCG / Consumer Goods preferred.

• Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and priorities.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to connect detailed planning assumptions with broader business and financial implications.
• Ability to challenge assumptions constructively and facilitate fact-based decision-making.
• Ability to translate complex data and business issues into clear executive-level insights and recommendations.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, cross-functional, and ambiguous environment.
• Proficiency in planning systems and analytical tools such as SAP, APO/IBP, Excel, and Power BI.

• Ability to lead through influence and create alignment across functions.
• Strong ownership, accountability, and bias for action.
• Ability to bring structure and clarity to complex or ambiguous business challenges.
• Strong decision-making and prioritization skills.
• Confident facilitator who can constructively challenge assumptions while maintaining collaborative relationships.
• Ability to move between strategic thinking and detailed execution.
• Collaborative, solution-oriented, and continuous-improvement mindset.

Base Salary Range:  $118,900.00 - $149,100.00 base salary

Actual placement within the compensation range may vary depending on experience, skills and other factors.