S&OP Manager
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Role Overview:
The S&OP COE Analyst is a critical role within the Planning Center of Excellence responsible for elevating the companys Sales & Operations Planning capabilities across a complex multi-vendor technology portfolio.
Operating in a high-SKU fast-moving distribution environment this role blends statistical planning inventory optimization and category performance analytics with structured S&OP process governance. The analyst ensures demand supply inventory and financial plans are fully integrated enabling improved service levels working capital efficiency and executive decision-making.
This position supports a global business managing thousands of SKUs across multiple OEM partners lifecycle stages and regional markets.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Enterprise S&OP Governance:
- Support global standardization of the monthly S&OP cycle across regions and business units
- Ensure alignment between Demand Planning Supply Planning Category Management Finance and Sales
- Drive meeting readiness executive reporting and structured decision support
- Maintain KPI governance including forecast accuracy bias service level inventory turns and working capital
- Identify process gaps and lead continuous improvement initiatives to mature S&OP toward Integrated Business Planning (IBP)
2. Statistical Forecasting & Demand Segmentation:
- Develop and enhance statistical baseline forecasting models across high-SKU portfolios
- Segment SKUs by demand pattern (smooth intermittent erratic lifecycle) to apply differentiated planning strategies
- Partner with Demand Planning to improve forecast accuracy at SKU vendor and category levels
- Conduct forecast error and bias root cause analysis
- Automate performance dashboards and exception reporting
- Support parameter optimization and model tuning in planning systems
3. Inventory Optimization & Working Capital Strategy:
- Analyze inventory positioning across distribution centers and regions
- Support multi-echelon inventory analysis and safety stock optimization
- Develop segmentation frameworks across thousands of SKUs
- Drive long-tail SKU strategies (low/no-touch planning rationalization order frequency optimization)
- Monitor excess & obsolete exposure lifecycle risk and vendor transition impacts
- Quantify working capital impact of planning decisions and provide executive-level insights
4. Category & Vendor Portfolio Analytics:
- Partner with Category Management and Vendor Management teams to assess portfolio performance
- Build vendor and subcategory scorecards integrating revenue margin inventory and service metrics
- Support SKU rationalization and vendor mix optimization initiatives
- Conduct lifecycle analytics (new product introduction refresh cycles end-of-life risk)
- Model assortment and allocation scenarios across regions
5. Advanced Analytics & Decision Support:
- Build scalable data models to support forecasting inventory analytics and KPI reporting
- Develop and maintain executive dashboards using BI tools (Power BI Tableau or similar)
- Automate recurring reporting through SQL-driven data pipelines
- Conduct scenario modeling and what-if analysis to evaluate demand shocks supply constraints and margin impact
- Partner with IT and data engineering teams to enhance planning data architecture and governance
- Improve master data accuracy and standardize KPI definitions across regions
6. Systems & Data Governance:
- Partner with IT and system owners to enhance ERP and advanced planning tools
- Improve data integrity and master data governance
- Support system enhancements reporting automation and KPI standardization
- Drive scalable analytics solutions across global regions
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Supply Chain Engineering Finance Statistics or Business
- 510 years of experience in S&OP demand planning supply planning or supply chain analytics within a distribution or technology environment
- Experience managing large SKU portfolios (10000 SKUs preferred)
- Strong knowledge of statistical forecasting methods and inventory optimization principles
- Advanced Excel skills; experience with BI platforms (Power BI Tableau etc.)
- Strong hands-on SQL capability (data extraction joins aggregations performance optimization)
- Experience with ERP and planning systems (Blue Yonder SAP Oracle Kinaxis Anaplan or similar)
- Strong quantitative modeling and financial acumen
- Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders in a matrixed global organization
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Ingram Micro helps businesses Realize the Promise of Technology™. It delivers a full spectrum of global technology and supply chain services to businesses around the world. Deep expertise in technology solutions, mobility, cloud, and supply chain solutions enables its business partner ... View more
