Senior Manager Planning Job Description
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Senior Manager Planning Job Description
- Forecast, plan and manage the sales, margin and turnover targets for the Timberland Direct to Consumer footwear division
- Collaborate with the Buyer, or Merchant, in determining buy quantities and assortment plans by season react to product flow timelines in-season
- Lead financial systems implementations and liaise with Distributor to ensure accurate reporting from GL and all other systems
- Analyze financial viability of potential programs/acquisitions by creating multiple P&L scenarios, which accurately test profitability and compliance with business goals
- Improve continually the budgeting process through education of department and finance managers on financial issues impacting their budgets
- Collaborate with corporate accounting partners, Corporate FP&A team and Strategy team with quarterly reporting and review
- Working with Network Rail, development partner for Brent Cross Thameslink station and related facilities, develop plans / schedules and oversee GRIP staged deliveries of the programme on-behalf of the Re joint venture with detailed planning and progress monitoring processes
- Working with the Brent Cross Thameslink (station, midland mainline bridge, freight facility, North London waste facility and sidings) development contractors to manage major programme schedule to support early delivery of the facilities to be in service by 2021
- Working closely with the Council’s Regeneration Service to inform the programme planning / scheduling strategy for the new Thameslink Station, and related facilities, to provide programme schedule updates and to advice and determine the associated progress issues and recovery options
- Working with Brent Cross Cost centre to support effective delivery of the programme cost model and efficient earned value management of assigned budget to the programme
- Problem solving – think through and determine the most effective course of action Planning skills – ability to install a sensible plan, evaluate the results and realistically forecast subsequent outcomes
- Team-oriented – must partner with the merchants and other planners to strategize the season and implement the plan
- Strong aptitude for learning and implementing Planning & Allocation systems and process
- Bachelor Degree or above, 5+ years' experience in S&OP, demand planning, demand management or similar functions in SCM
- 8-10 years of experience in a Financial Management role (preferably in publishing and/or consumer products)
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance and/or Accounting, MBA preferred, with a strong understanding of accounting principles
Senior Manager Planning Job Description
- Be responsible for the successful outcome and continuous Improvement of Customer Service metrics such as stock-out, COC (Customer Order Coverage)
- Drive continuous improvement of planning processes at a local level aligned with Global processes
- Planning and execution for quarterly leadership summits
- End to end planning, forecasting and scheduling
- Analyse client specific information, such as long term forecasts and call routing strategies between clients own and Ventura call centres to improve the efficiency of their business through better utilisation of their resources
- Manage, motivate and develop a team of up to 6 direct reports
- Leverage eWFM (Workforce Management System) to ensure planning of shrinkage on an intra-month, intra-week and intra-day basis delivers optimum profitability
- Optimize in-season performance analyses to revise forecasts identify areas of risk and opportunity, and create plans to mitigate or accelerate these
- Advise development of planning and forecasting tools in-season reporting and business review processes
- Develop open-to-buy strategies to inform inventory management, accompanying processes to manage product lifecycles and pricing to drive improved sales, profits and turns
- Prefer that 2+ years of experience be within an Agency environment
- Client management and engagement experience is preferred
- Proven success in managing high profile projects or multiple projects preferred
- Ability to inspire their team through career and personal development
- Self-motivated and able to adapt quickly to changing priorities and tight deadlines in order to manage creative capacity
- Possess exceptional communications skills
Senior Manager Planning Job Description
- Drive and challenge peers and collaborators on strategy alignment and their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans
- Must possess a true Servant Leader mentality with the ability to recognize when a "sense of urgency" is a must
- Developing and leading strategy for the OE/CSS planning processes & systems group
- Providing leadership and vision to identify opportunities
- Implementing solutions for transformational improvements, through the use of Process Excellence, Lean practices or other appropriate methodologies
- Providing planning process subject matter expertise and thought leadership
- Developing and maintaining knowledge on current processes & systems needed for supply chain planning and Working with partners across the organization to determine business opportunities and keep the planning processes in line with the business needs
- Benchmarking and leveraging best practices across business units, franchises and outside J&J
- Driving planning optimization projects to ensure process reliability and create global visibility of the supply chain
- Ownership of project portfolio management, prioritization and project status tracking for the OE/CSS Business Process & systems group
- In general terms, candidates should have UAE experience and ideally a mix of experience across retail, mall and mixed use large scale projects
- 5+ years planning and/or allocation experience in a multi-store environment Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
- Articulate with the ability to relate to people at all levels of an organization
- The ideal candidate is honest, trustworthy, thoughtful and authentic
- Lead and manage external agencies, suppliers and contractors
- Identify, design, negotiate, and execute integrated marketing media programs that include the development of branded content
Senior Manager Planning Job Description
- Responsible for the company-wide budgeting process
- Tracks and report progress against corporate earnings improvement initiatives
- Partners with Hyperion team on system enhancements and financial processes improvements
- Accountable for performance of team and talent development
- Manages process of monthly 18-month income statement/balance sheet and cash flow forecasting/budgeting and related variances
- Preparation and review of longer range financial projections (3 or 5 years)
- Review of other monthly reporting and ad hoc analysis
- Monitors the company’s actual vs
- Monitor ongoing business performance, and identify and analyze key drivers of the business
- Conduct ongoing review of financial and operating results with management to ensure the Company and business units meet and/or exceed financial targets
- Previous Hospitality/Hotel experience is preferred
- Minimum of two (2) years of previous people management experience is preferred
- Ability to work in “white space” to design, carry out analysis, and model business processes
- Ability to clearly document cross-functional processes
- Lead planning efforts as a key team member on an MRP implementation program
- Ensure alignment of material flow to build requirements by coordinating with Production Scheduling, Manufacturing, Purchasing and Supply Chain Commodity teams
Senior Manager Planning Job Description
- Liaise with engineering team to maximise self-delivery potential & mobile workforce development
- Progressively develop and manage a small asset planning team, motivate and coach
- Provide a strategic lead on Consumer Insight for the Cereal Portfolio, category, brand insight and research across W.E
- Develop a Consumer Insight Strategy based on an EU Knowledge Agenda that will shape the Portfolio and Brand Development to frame the commercial planning process
- Procure, shape and align Consumer Insight across the EU to deliver a central strategic view of the Brand that leads to actionable in-market strategies
- Lead the ongoing implementation of the Insight strategy for Breakfast portfolio
- Critical assessment and shaping of the marketing strategy using integrated insight to EHQ consolidating all European Markets ensuring optimal delivery of insight to the business to drive profitable growth
- Lead the annual development of Insight budget to meet the needs of the Eu business
- Lead and Manage with sole accountability on all projects and contracts with research suppliers, ensuring best possible solutions to meet business needs, developing and experimenting with new solutions, and driving for added value
- Support the Brand Communications Development through inspiring effective assignment and creative briefs and supporting execution and evaluation through an integrated view of in-market performance based on evaluation and ROI
- 3+ years of Network Planning experience required
- 3+ years of Domestic Planning experience Domestic scheduling experience preferred
- Orchestrate and ensure that delivery VP's business operations/routines run smoothly
- Able to visualize, articulate, and condense complex initiatives, problems, concepts, , into concise, easily understood updates and/or presentations
- Proven experience of leading marketing strategy function >10y
- Proven experience of leading large teams >10y