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Building cities. Driving commerce. Saving lives. For over 100 years Allison Transmission has powered the vehicles and technology that move our world forward.
What powers us Our employees. From the first person hired by James Allison in 1915 to the thousands across the globe who work for Allison today were driving progress everywhere because we employ top talent worldwide.
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Benefits:
The below list features some of the benefits currently available. Eligibility may be subject to the terms and conditions of governing documents and available benefits may be subject to change at the companys discretion.
Choice of medical plans with prescription coverage
Employer HSA contribution
Dental & Vision Insurance
Paid Parental Leave
Short & LongTerm Disability
Other voluntary benefits including: Critical Illness Hospital Indemnity Identity Theft Protection and Pet Insurance
401K with generous Company match & contribution
Accrued Paid Time Off
12 Paid Holidays
8 hours paid volunteer time per year
Robust employee wellness program
Tuition assistance program & Dependent scholarship program
Onsite blood drives
Voluntary employee groups open to all who wish to participate including: Global Womens Network Emerging Professionals ERG Multicultural ERG Veterans ERG Toastmasters Club and more.
Job Description:
The Sales Planning & Operations Leader is responsible for leading the Allison Transmission Inc. (ATI) Defense Programs cross functional Sales and Operations Planning (SOP) Process functioning as the leader of this activity and liaison between the Defense Sales & Operations. You will be responsible coordinating compiling and analysing Allisons monthly forecast of Defenses Customers desires & Operations capabilities. This role is also accountable for the overall systems integration of the Defense SOP data with the overall Allison Operations plans and reporting including weekly risk reports. Additional responsibilities will include Defense Programs monthly expense forecast and various sales support activities.
Responsibilities:
- Treat teammates with respect and courtesy while working in a challenging demanding crossfunctional and matrixed organization.
- Lead and coordinate activities to have a successful monthly SOP process involving defense account managers providing the necessary information through Growth Opportunities
- Lead the four key data points in the SOP process(New program alignment Defense demand planning preSOP with Defense plant 14 and final SOP with Allison Operations)
- Attend and support Sales and Operations meetings to better understand the customers desires and Operations capabilities resulting in better facilitation of the SOP process.
- Work weekly with Plant 14 Operations leadership to manage current metrics and jointly develop Customer risk reports
- Work jointly with Master Production Scheduler ahead of monthly preSOP and final SOP ensure matches between current demand and capacity.
- Coordinate monthly forecast material with Finances Pricing and Revenue groups to assure no surprises with monthend financials.
- Lead monthly Business Performance Report (BPR) development process for presentation by Defense VP in monthly BPRs
- Develop monthly forecast causal reports for monthly End Market reports.
- Lead and coordinate activities to have a successful monthly departmental expense forecast process.
- Lead other crossfunctional efforts as required.
- Jointly work with Business Planning Director to compile analyse monthly Defense End Market reviews and review with Defense Executive leadership. This monthly report is then reviewed with CEO.
- Jointly work with Business Planning Director to build on the SOP and End Market reviews to complete the Allison Market Demand Forecast and all internal and cross functional reviews.
- Utilize market intelligence to identify global defense ground vehicle opportunities early in the development phase utililizing third party data bases to use in our current End Market Product reviews.
- Carry out other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Business Finance Marketing Economics or equivalent field/experience
- Excellent oral written and presentation communication skills
- Proficient in the use of desktop applications and use of Microsoft Office including Outlook Word Excel SharePoint and PowerPoint
- Ability and desire to collaborate and work with partners across the organization at all levels
- Ability to compile discern analyse and report data
- Ability to present to Executive Leadership on results
Experience:
- 7 years of experience working as a CrossFunctional Team Leader
- Business analyst experience in a Defense related industry
- Experience in forecasting and analyzing
- Ability to analyze profitability/ROI
- Functional expertise in data modeling software or programs
- Data mining cleaning and transformation
- Data visualization and reporting techniques
- Knowledge of financial forecasting and business case analysis
- Ability to define problems collect data establish facts and draw conclusions
- Proven skill at generating clear concise formal presentations for leadership
- Strong team leadership skills high level of interpersonal skills
- Strong attention to detail and driven by following the program process of execution
- Proven history of setting and meeting goals for all deliverables ability to multitask
- Internallymotivated curious and ambitious with an ability to plan organize and establish priorities to handle multiple projects and achieve results
Allison Transmission is an equal opportunity employer. We have opportunities for all qualified applicants regardless of age race color sex religion creed national origin disability sexual orientation gender identity/expression or veteran status.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC