Sales & Operations Planning Lead

Date Posted:

2025-03-10

Country:

United States of America

Location:

MA101: Andover MA 350 Lowell St Essex 350 Lowell Street Essex, Andover, MA, 01810 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

At Raytheon, the foundation of everything we do is rooted in our values and a higher calling – to help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. We bring the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. Our team solves tough, meaningful problems that create a safer, more secure world.  

Role Summary

The Integrated Business Planning function is responsible for driving schedule alignment with finance, factory operations, program operations, and supply chain stakeholders on an integrated demand plan that provides the basis for assessing annual operating plans (AOP) and long-range plans (LRP).  Sales and Operations Execution (S&OE) and Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) gives programs, supply chain, and factory value stream leaders the ability to come together and make strategic and tactical decisions about how to collectively run their businesses to optimize customer satisfaction, financial performance, and risk mitigation on AOP/LRP. This provides visibility to ensure plans are sufficient to plan labor, equipment, facilities, material, and financial investments required to achieve business goals.

This role will support the Air & Space Defense Systems (ASDS) Business Unit, and is responsible for understanding current and forecasted business, key business financial and planning objectives, supporting assessment of supply chain and factory risks, and providing analytical support to assess different planning options to establish mitigation plans as needed to achieve the long-range plan (LRP). This role will work closely with the cross-functional teams.

What You Will Do:

• Facilitate Planning inputs, analysis, and meetings which includes demand planning, supply planning, consensus between functions and stakeholders
• Lead collaborative, action-based constraint mitigation discussions with cross functional teams
• Create and deliver presentations to various levels of executive leadership
• Collaborate internally and cross functionally to simplify and drive overall efficient and effective process execution
• Data mine, extract, compile, interpret, visualize, and communicate data-based recommendations on large & complex data sets leveraging multiple business systems / tools
• Evaluate end-to-end planning and identify constraints, risks and opportunities
• Mediate discussions between stakeholders with varying incentives
• Motivate a cross-functional team towards a shared vision

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a university degree or equivalent experience and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience, or an advanced degree in a related field and minimum 5 years relevant experience
• Minimum 8 years in engineering, operations, supply chain, analytics and/or similar role
• U.S. government issued security clearance is required
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
• Experience with MS Office applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Experience using MRP/ERP systems
• Experience leading cross-functionally

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Experience using SAP systems
• Knowledge of advanced planning tools (i.e. – Kinaxis RapidResponse)
• Experience with data visualization tools such a Tableau, Power BI
• Understanding of internal processes for developing financial plans (i.e. AOP, LRP, EAC, proposals).

What We Offer:

• Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a safer, more connected world. At RTX we value: Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation.

Learn More & Apply Now!

• Please consider the following role type definition as you apply for this role: Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.

Whether you’re just starting out on your career journey or are an experienced professional, we offer a total rewards package that goes above and beyond with compensation; healthcare, wellness, retirement, and work/life benefits; career development and recognition programs. Some of the benefits we offer include parental (including paternal) leave, flexible work schedules,