Sales and Operations Planning Specialist IV

Nidec Motor Corporation•East Syracuse, NY

39d

About The Position

The Sales and Operations Planning Lead is accountable for translating demand into an executable supply and manufacturing plan across Syracuse and Monterrey. This role ensures demand, production capacity, material availability, and procurement plans are aligned through a disciplined S&OP cadence that drives decisions, resolves constraints, and prevents past due orders. The role serves as the single point of orchestration between Demand Planning, Manufacturing, Procurement, Supply Chain, and Plant Leadership. While demand signals are well understood, this position exists to ensure the organization can deliver against that demand through capacity balancing, material readiness, and corrective action execution at each plant. Core Purpose is to ensure the right product is built, at the right plant, at the right time, with the right materials and to surface, escalate, and resolve gaps when that is not possible.

Requirements

Communicates with senior leadership and employees within and outside of department and/or job family on matters that require explanation, interpretation and/or advising; may communicate with external clients or partners depending upon the job area
Influences employees within the business unit to agree and align on new concepts, practices and approaches
Responsible for moderate to significant improvements of processes, procedures, or systems to contribute to the performance of the team
Problems are moderately complex and may impact multiple departments and/or job family
Coaches, reviews and delegates work to other professionals
Manages end-to-end projects or processes
Proven experience balancing demand with manufacturing and material supply in a multi plant environment
Deep understanding of: Finite capacity planning, manufacturing constraints, supplier lead times and material risk.
Strong facilitation skills with the ability to drive alignment and make tradeoffs
Ability to influence without direct authority and challenge senior stakeholders when plans are not executable
Experience leading corrective actions and driving operational accountability
Bachelor’s degree required
Minimum 7 years of progressive experience in S&OP, manufacturing planning, supply chain, or operations
English mandatory.

Nice To Haves

advanced degree or APICS / IBF certification preferred
Other language skills are helpful.

Responsibilities

End-to-End S&OP ownership and decision leadership
Lead the monthly S&OP process, translating demand into a constrained and executable supply plan
Facilitate cross‑functional decision making when demand exceeds capacity or material availability
Document decisions, tradeoffs, and commitments and ensure follow‑through across functions
Partner with plant leadership to validate assumptions and surface bottlenecks early
Prevent local or siloed planning by enforcing enterprise‑level priorities
Align procurement plans to the approved S&OP supply plan and demand priorities
Identify supplier and material risks and lead mitigation actions before they impact production
Ensure material constraints are visible and addressed as part of S&OP, not as reactive expedites
Own corrective actions for past due orders, schedule misses, and material shortages
Identify root causes, assign ownership, and track actions to closure
Embed learnings into future planning cycles to prevent repeat issues
Establish a consistent S&OP operating rhythm and standard planning assumptions at both plants (Syracuse and Monterrey).
Drive collaboration between manufacturing, supply chain, and procurement at the site level
Ensure both plants are executing against the same plan, priorities, and metrics
Own S&OP KPIs including past due, schedule adherence, capacity utilization, and plan vs. actual variance
Provide clear visibility to leadership on risks, gaps, and required decisions
Strengthen S&OP maturity, standardization, and discipline over time