Johnson Controls
Job description / Role
What you will do
The Sales & Operations Planner (S&O Planner) is a strategic role reporting directly to the Regional Director of Operations in Middle East and Africa. You will be part of our MEA Team supporting the JCI S&O Planning program with specific emphasis on the Demand Planning process for the field operations.
As S&O Planner you will prepare accurate initial Demand Plans per pre-defined cadence to ensure performance success across the entire enterprise from financial planning, to material planning, to manufacturing, to logistics. You will work within a vibrant environment that provides a platform for you to use your experience coupled with your knowledge of the business operating model to deliver our business objectives for our Middle East and Africa region.
How you will do it
As S&O Planner you will be using your skills to prepare and consolidate material from different product groups/geographies for the monthly Demand Review meetings. You will be facilitating the Demand Review meetings and distributing material for participant reviews. You will make sure that the actions from the meetings are communicated to all stakeholders. You will be representing the organizational perspective with respect to demand shaping and also communicate the consensus demand plan, run statistical, quantitative Demand Plans from the Demand Planning tool. As a S&O Planner you will use your strong analytical skills to collect qualitative data from Sales and Marketing tools and systems, and also review and align with the Annual Operating Plan (AOP).As part of your role you will also reconcile the quantitative and qualitative data to create draft Demand Plans and enter the unconstrained Demand Plan into the planning tool and provide the Demand Plan to the Supply Planning Team.
As an S&O Planner you will be supporting S&OP stakeholders, align on a recommended Sales and Operations plan that balances business objectives, constraints, inventory, and customer expectations. As field S&O Planner, you will also responsible Analyze actual orders compared to demand plan, Prepare KPI Dashboards, Support the S&O Lead to analyze risk and opportunity to Sales & operations Plan for escalation & resolution and to summarize status of action items.
