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Kinetico Incorporated · 3 months ago

Global Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning Manager

Newbury, OH, US

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

8+ years exp

Kinetico Incorporated is a leader in the water treatment industry, manufacturing innovative water softeners and systems. The Global Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning Manager is responsible for developing and executing SIOP planning processes across operations, ensuring alignment with commercial goals, and driving supply chain efficiency across multiple regions.

Consumer GoodsWater

Responsibilities

Develops and manages an internal forecasting and planning process to capture and model demand for Kinetico products to meet cost, availability, and delivery expectations. Owns the creation of a quarterly consensus plan for Sales and Operations

Manages Demand Planners to operate the monthly SIOP process across all business units. Provides leadership and guidance to SIOP leads to ensure standardized planning methodologies

Facilitates monthly demand forecast aggregation. Works to create consensus between functions and stakeholders, aligning with operations partners to the best possible production strategies

Develops, measures, and monitors KPIs for forecast accuracy, planning data integrity and accuracy, SIOP performance, service, and inventory

Work closely with Manufacturing, Demand Planning, Procurement, and other departments to provide long-term visibility on volumes and activities to support strategic decisions and initiatives

Monitors the demand plan throughout the month to provide detailed input to Sales and Marketing management for use in demand review and S&OP meetings. Create production plans that optimize resource utilization while meeting delivery targets

Monitor execution of plans and adjust based on performance metrics and changing demands

Delegates tasks, trains employees on procedures and processes, provides workforce with appropriate tools and equipment, oversees and approves employee time transactions, evaluates employee performance, and recommends employment actions. Leads and develops a planning team, managing team collaboration and alignment

Serves as central resource to stakeholders for the creation of a monthly supply plan process by the manufacturing team. Acts as primary point of contact for SIOP-related queries and planning decisions

Maps the supply model (make to order, make to stock, assemble to order) based on the business rules, forecast demand, and historical sales performance. Ensures alignment of supply models to support corporate objectives

Qualification

Supply Chain ManagementForecastingCapacity PlanningMRPERP ProcessesCPMAPICS CertificationAnalytical SkillsPlanning Tools ProficiencyCommunication SkillsProblem-Solving Skills