Director, S&OP Planning

Description

ABOUT GOLDEN STATE FOODS

Golden State Foods is a distinguished leader in the foodservice industry, offering an extensive array of products and services to a diverse clientele. Rooted in the values of quality service and integrity, we are dedicated to creating a supportive and inclusive atmosphere where employees can advance, innovate, and contribute to our ongoing success.

ABOUT THE JOB

The Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) Director will play the crucial role of aligning revenue and operational activities within Golden State Foods, by developing and managing the demand forecasts and capacity planning to meet customer needs and maximize profitability.  This leader will facilitate Cross-Functional collaboration with commercial leadership, manufacturing, purchasing, distribution, and finance to integrate demand, supply, and financial planning.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Responsible for producing an integrated master plan based on demand forecast of existing portfolio and incoming new products introductions (commercialization’s) and multiple supply inputs as production capacity (owned and external network), vendors materials supply and other pertinent supply needs as distribution, warehousing and alike.
• This leader will work collaboratively with Commercial leadership, Manufacturing, Procurement (GSS), Logistics, Finance and DSD Sales Operations teams to ensure customer requirements are met.
• Responsible for leading the development of strategic plans to deliver on our growth objectives and improve overall supply chain performance via an effective S&OP process.
• Responsible for developing the demand forecast plan for LPNA, proposing strategies to improve forecast accuracy, and co-led along with commercial team the conversations with key stakeholders including customers for this purpose.
• This position will lead LPNA new product introductions (commercialization’s) on applicable supply chain responsibilities and integrate new demand in the S&OP process.
• This position will lead to the development and implementation of tools or technical solutions aiming to produce demand forecast and proper integration with the existing ERP-MRP systems.
• Responsible for developing and maintenance of appropriate capacity models for LPNA operations, ensure capacity models accuracy, and co-led conversations with operations leaders for this purpose.
• Manages and recommends supply strategy policy for GSF finished goods, defines the criteria to define what will be "Make to Order" (MTO), "Make to Stock" (MTS), "Assembled to Order" (ATO) for all product, monitors implementation and regularly verify compliance and / or needs of change.
• Defines and manages supply strategy definition process for new commercialized products of GSF as well as periodic review of strategy for existing portfolio of products.
• Maintains clear communication with Sales, Product Development, Commercialization, Quality Assurance, Customer Service, Operations, and Procurement to ensure the organization’s affective plans.

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WHAT YOU’LL GET