S&OE Manager

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Your role at Clorox:

The S&OE (Sales & Operations Execution) Manager supports the Kingsford & Brita Business Units (BUs) by leading the S&OE process across the BUs and working cross-functionally to identify variances in actual performance on both demand and supply within the designated execution window. They orchestrate and recommend strategic decisions to re-synchronize demand and supply by clearly identifying the problem statement, recommending proposed solutions, and highlighting relevant tradeoffs in order to execute the plan.

In this role, you will:

S&OE Planning

• Drives weekly S&OE process across 0–2 month time horizon, implementing near-term planning against BU constrained forecast and integrated business plan.
• Tracks execution, identifies demand and supply gaps to S&OP plan with data-driven insights, and drives balanced demand / supply resolution, in coordination with impacted functions and stakeholders.
• Assesses and balances tradeoffs to strategically to meet near-term BU goals, which are escalated in weekly BU S&OE Meeting/Report to IBP Lead and GM as warranted.
• Develops and embeds new tools, process improvements, and systems changes (including ATP, Rapid/Kinaxis, Power BI) to drive delivery of business goals and improve customer service levels.

Execution

• Proactively identifies and escalates risks to shipment forecast, service levels, and inventory to deliver against the demand plan.
• Highlights opportunities and drives execution of issues/opportunities to improve delivery of plan (e.g. higher service level, lower cost, etc.) within the execution window by tracking production variances, FDOS, Case Fill, Working Capital.
• Monitors innovation, promotions and item transitions to ensure proper supply and demand plans are in place.
• Triggers and co-leads allocation strategy & demand shaping actions as needed.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Coordinates across BU (e.g. BU Leadership Team / Supply Chain Squad) to ensure delivery of short term plan, and appropriately escalates of issues in a timely manner.
• Acts as the primary BU lead with Supply Chain Logistics and Customer Operations – actively escalating and resolving issues.
• Coordinates with Business Planning Mgr. / Network Planning Mgr. to flag trending issues that need to be incorporated into longer term supply plans going forward.
• Actively champions and contributes to S&OE community for best practice sharing.

Talent Development

• Directly manages Brita and Kingsford inventory planners (e.g. performance evaluations, career development).
• Mentors, develops, and trains team members with clarity and candor. 

What we look for:

• BS/BA Degree from an accredited institution (or equivalent experience)
• 6+ years of proven experience in Business Planning, Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Supply Chain, or similar roles
• Experience using advanced planning software tools
• Consumer Packaged Goods experience, including internal and external manufacturing, operations, and logistics
• Leadership and influence in both proactive and reactive, and ambiguous situations
• Experience in setting priorities and meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Demonstrated strong aptitude in analysis, root-cause identification, and problem solving to clearly articulate next steps towards resolution
• Exceptional communicator
• Ability to build strong relationships across the functions and levels
• Previous Management of direct report (train, develop)
• Forward looking, strategic thinking to create clear problem statements to assess level of risk, potential solutions
• Ability to synthesize disparate data into coherent, forward-looking business strategies and tactics for advancing business priorities, with management/LT support.
• Strong financial competence, including understanding of working capital & P&L implications of overall supply chain and network balancing choice
• Strong analytic skillset and familiarity with data science applications, systems
• Ability to recognize trends within data and translate that back into short-term demand & supply plan narrat