S&OP and Demand Planning Manager - Commercial Tires

Goodyear • Akron, OH

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About The Position

The Supply Chain Manager, reporting to the Supply Chain Director Commercial LA, leads S&OP and S&OE processes across Latin America, focusing on demand planning to optimize inventory and meet business goals. This role acts as a key link between supply chain and commercial teams, supporting strategic planning, capacity forecasting, and financial targets like EBIT and working capital.

Requirements

• Engineering, Operations/Supply Chain Management, Administration or Statistical Degree Required.
• Minimum of 8 years professional experience in Supply Chain area.
• Fluent in English and (Spanish or Portuguese) required.
• Experience on Demand Planning, Supply Planning and Customer Service.
• Proved experiences in multinational environment.
• Advanced Excel is mandatory (macro, functions and VBA program).
• Cognos, Hyperion, Tableau, SAP (APO/DP/MRP) experience (desired).

Nice To Haves

• APICS Certification (CPIM or CSCP) Preferred.
• Knowledge in tire or other similar market (desired).

Responsibilities

• Develop key relationships with Regional Commercial Product Business unit representatives, Regional Supply Chain organization and Country representatives.
• Manage the S&OP process - drive the cycle activities, consolidation of country data, review/monitor/reporting of performance against designated supply chain KPI's in sales planning, customer service, inventory management.
• Ensure integration between sales, marketing and finance during generation and execution of operational plans.
• Owner of Commercial S&OP decks and any other related document.
• Manage the S&OE process - drive the weekly activities, analyze and report ongoing performance against plan, setup and follow-up on required action items.
• Responsible for validation of requirements and confirmation signals. Ensuring accurate information flow between Go to Market organizations and supply sources.
• Supply Chain representative on new product launch process (Stage and Gate process) for Commercial Product business unit.
• Use and maintain the Demand Planning software (APO/DP) as the primary forecasting system tool. Assure that LA product master data is updated. Business process expert for APO DP.
• Interact with production planning to understand gaps and opportunities in product availability.
• Develop sourcing strategies/plan to minimize total delivery cost.
• Implementation of SAP MRP Planning process in LA. Business Process Owner for MRP.
• Provide recommendations for planning process improvement and performance improvement in LA countries. Share best practices between LA countries about using system, planning process or projects between LA Countries.
• Deliver targeted levels of service to end customers in markets to support PBU operation.
• Support inventory strategy, target analysis (8 losses methodology) and Inventory Quality (IQR). Ensure LA inventory levels optimization to minimize net working capital.
• Support Regional sales growth plans by driving supply scenario planning on a production constrained environment.
• Support/enhance long term capacity planning and budget process.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree