Opportunity
Lead and support projects, process improvements and
reporting activities within the Sales and Operations Planning process
for Kitchen and Bath Americas across all categories and sites, including Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) reconciliation,
balancing short term vs long term demand and supply projections, risk analysis,
capacity site reviews, and ensuring forecast attainment. As needed, provide oversight and delivery of projects and
business enablement within the Americas Supply Chain.
Assembles and leads project teams, identifies the appropriate resources needed
for project execution, and develops schedules to ensure timely completion of
projects, establishes KPIs for determining project success, while controlling
for project cost, quality, schedule, and scope across multiple business
functions.Prepare for, engage, support, and facilitate key S&OP
meetings, including weekly sales updates, monthly dollarization, shipment
forecasts, and reconciliation meetings. Ensure content drives alignment and
consensus within finance, demand and supply, and site planning teams. Organize, report and lead site forecast reviews with key fulfillment,
logistics, supply, and financial stakeholders. Partner with logistics team to
ensure space and warehouse capacity align with the S&OP plan. Partner with demand teams to validate and analyze the demand
plan, while identifying risk and opportunity in the short- and long-term product
demand strategies. Support supply planners via demand analysis and
dollarization validation, to help ensure the correct signal is driving supply
planning and shipment forecast projections.Analyze site performance vs
forecast KPI’s to identify trends, and coordinate root cause identification and
drive completion of corrective actions. Ability to complete ad hoc data
analysis and scenario planning with minimal direction.
Drive systematic improvement in the supply chain
through application of KBNA standards, best practices, advanced analytics, and
technology.