Director, Sales Inventory & Operations Planning (SIOP)

Trystar Inc•Burnsville, MN

1d•$176,500 - $200,000•Onsite

About The Position

Trystar is seeking a Director of Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SIOP) to lead the end-to-end SIOP process, Demand Planning function, and Inventory Strategy. This role is crucial for integrating Sales, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, Engineering, and other departments to align business plans, identify risks and opportunities, and drive timely decisions. The Director will collaborate closely with the Production Planning Leader to ensure demand, supply, capacity, and inventory plans are effectively integrated. The company values safety, integrity, customer focus, speed, teamwork, adaptability, and enjoyment in the workplace. Trystar is committed to advancing power solutions with a dynamic team and innovative approaches, emphasizing safety and integrity in all operations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Business, Finance, Engineering, or a related field required.
8+ years of progressive experience in SIOP/S&OP, demand planning, supply chain, operations, inventory planning, finance, or related disciplines, including significant experience in a leadership role.
Demonstrated experience leading or significantly contributing to an end-to-end SIOP/S&OP process in a complex manufacturing environment.
Strong experience leading Demand Planning and forecasting processes, including development of consensus-based demand plans and management of forecast performance.
Experience developing and implementing inventory strategies that balance customer service, working capital, and operational requirements.
Strong understanding of supply planning, capacity planning, and manufacturing operations, with the ability to effectively partner and influence across functional boundaries.
Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence decisions without direct authority.
Experience implementing or leveraging ERP, demand planning, forecasting, or integrated business planning systems.
Advanced analytical skills with experience using scenario modeling, business intelligence tools, and data visualization to support decision making.
Demonstrated experience developing and managing KPIs and performance metrics.
Exceptional communication and executive presence, with the ability to facilitate discussions and drive decisions with senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Manufacturing industry experience strongly preferred.
Experience in a high-growth, complex, configure-to-order, build-to-order, or project-based manufacturing environment preferred.
APICS/ASCM certification, MBA, or advanced degree preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead and continuously improve Trystar’s end-to-end SIOP process and planning cadence, including governance, decision rights, and accountability across Demand Review, Supply Review, integrated planning, and Executive SIOP.
Lead Trystar’s Demand Planning function and partner with Sales and Commercial leaders to drive a consensus-based demand planning process, ensuring the enterprise demand plan incorporates key demand drivers and identifies risks and opportunities.
Lead Trystar’s Inventory Strategy, including the development of inventory policies, targets, segmentation, and planning approaches that balance customer service, growth, working capital, and operational requirements.
Partner closely with the Production Planning Leader to ensure the supply and production plan is aligned with the agreed-upon demand plan and overall business priorities.
Collaborate with Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, Engineering, and Production Planning to identify capacity constraints, material availability risks, labor requirements, supplier constraints, and other barriers to meeting customer demand.
Facilitate cross-functional tradeoff discussions and influence decisions related to customer priorities, capacity, inventory positioning, lead times, and other actions required to balance demand and supply.
Partner with Finance to connect SIOP plans and decisions to the financial planning and forecasting process.
Drive the continuous improvement of Trystar’s SIOP capabilities and culture, including processes, methodologies, systems, analytics, performance metrics, team development, fact-based decision-making, accountability, and cross-functional collaboration.
Establish and manage key planning metrics, including forecast accuracy, bias, OTD performance, inventory turns, inventory obsolescence, capacity utilization, and plan attainment.
Facilitate Executive SIOP reviews and provide data-driven recommendations to senior leadership regarding demand, capacity, inventory, customer priorities, and strategic tradeoff decisions.
Lead, develop, and coach a high-performing SIOP team while building strong partnerships across the organization.