S&op Specialist

**S&OP Specialist - Production**:
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The newly introduced position will act as a link to shopfloor planning to identify any risks ensuring all necessary information is provided both ways. Pain points must be highlighted very early to ensure flawless planning and production.

**Your responsibilities**:

- Lead Supply Review Meeting and participate in Supply Financial Evaluation & Pre-S&OP Meeting.
- Interface to Shopfloor planning.
- Has up-to-date knowledge about production planning activities, factory capabilities and SC model.
- Able to prepare and analyze different supply plan scenarios and highlight issues / possible risks.
- Prepare and analyze business KPIs.
- Prepare inputs:

- o Supply Chain Model and actual capacities
- o Unfeasible plan with possible overload or unmet customer demand
- o Feasible supply scenarios and documented assumptions and issues
- Lead performance review and share KPIs
- Review gaps of Production Plan vs. Unconstrained Demand and options to close.
- Lead conversation to agree on scenarios that will be presented at the S&OP meeting and summarize actions.
- Prepare input: Supply plan scenario based on level 5 meeting (together with sourcing).
- Presentation of evaluated constrained supply plan compared to planned capacities of footprint with assumptions and main deviations to demand plan.
- Identification of opportunities for improvement.
- Active contribution to internal projects (e.g., in process enhancements).
- Collect and define requirements for additional reporting & controlling needs.
- Supporting the Head of Production Planning in all analytical matters.

**Your background**:

- Degree in Supply Chain Management & Operations, Controlling, Business Administration or similar discipline.
- 3-5 years of relevant work experience
- Fluent communication skills in German and English language
- Reliable analytical skills paired with the ability to understand and embrace the complexity of industrial production.
- Perfect knowledge of production process, production planning and S&OP
- Excellent background of Operations & Planning KPIs and metrics.
- Experience with SAP ERP (mainly PP module), production planning software (e.g., PP/DS) or other supply chain planning software (e.g., SAP IBP).
- Experience with the use of a Production or Supply Chain Control Tower or other analysis-driven software.
- Knowledge of MS Office with very good knowledge of MS Excel.

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