Manager S&OP

Job Description:

Role : Manager S&OP

Business Unit: Mars Pet Nutrition India

Location: Hyderabad

Job Purpose :

S&OP+ Manager is responsible for ensuring smooth running of the Organization's S&OP+ process, in line with global and regional guidelines. The incumbent has to work with multiple cross-functional teams and the Leadership Team to help formulate an aligned business plan over a horizon of 18-36 months and monitor the same. As a dual responsibility, the incumbent is also accountable for Project Management of Innovations and ensure their delivery within budget as per the business plans.

Key Responsibilities:

S&OP+
Strategy

• Work with the Leadership team and the functional heads in aligning business goals
• Drive the cyclic process to remain focused on the long term business strategy
• Be the guiding voice to process the medium to long term risks & opportunities and drive actions to integrate the same in the S&OP process
• Improve variance to plan for the business goals through effective S&OP process

• Drive discipline, rigor and adherence to the S&OP process
• Be the process expert for the business for S&OP training / inductions. Needs to ensure step facilitators are adequately trained, design the core and output decks, assemble and analyse final period deck to be presented to Management team
• Expected to influence associates without authority towards meeting the organization goals and reduce /eliminate firefighting, thereby moving towards more stable and predictable business outcomes resulting in the efficient use of resources

• Work towards integrating all the functions to have one aligned view and plan for the unit
• Make sure the S&OP steps are interlinked for information consistency
• Track, initiate and highlight the performance on goals as needed. Help the steps/feeders with monitoring tools like scorecards for achievement tracking
• Drive Functional Heads' ownership for the respective S&OP+ step meetings/feeders and look for continuous improvements towards making these meetings more effective and focused on decision making
• India SPOC for S&OP - Market S5 submissions.

• Leads cross-functional project teams, coordinates sub-teams, develops and maintains overall project planning and timelines. Ensures project execution according to agreed CSFs and in agreed scope. Develops and presents stage gate presentations.
• Manages the budget and timelines of the project, holding the team accountable to deliver the project on time, in budget and in full.
• Composes the right project team ensuring process and principles (including thresholds/complexity) are fully integrated
• Ensures adherence to agreed business processes and correct use of Quest system. Drives on time and right first time delivery of stage gate documents

• Engages in active stakeholder management around activities.
• Is part of NPD discussions and source of information on the ongoing projects
• Engages with the fellow Activity Managers across the source units for timely delivery of the projects
• India SPOC for Activity Manager community for regional/global information exchange

• Own the project pipeline process, including market alignment, governance structures, business decision making and prioritization throughout the Unit S&OP+ process
• Ensure precision and pace in delivery of the Project Pipeline. Own the activity management performance tracking and review

• Post Graduate- MBA
• Experience in leading S&OP meetings/ project management / business planning/ supply chain planning / process implementation roles

• 10+ years of experience working with multifunctional teams
• Strong process management, planning and analytical skills, high Learning Agility, business acumen, Project Management
• Understanding/experience of S&OP / Process Driving roles
• Stakeholder Management
• Proactive, detailed-oriented, results-oriented and willing to initiate change
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are a non-negotiable