Job Information
Caterpillar, Inc. Sales & Operations Planning Lead Coordinator in East Peoria, Illinois
Career Area:
Supply Chain and Logistics
Job Description:
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Caterpillar’s Earthmoving division is hiring a Sales & Operations Planning Lead Coordinator within the Medium Tractors product group. This role is accountable for guiding the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process within the product group and making cycle recommendations to the Vice President of Product Management. You will advocate, enable and drive execution of the S&OP process for the product group, working with key process partners to deliver products profitably to the marketplace, maximize inventory turns and plant efficiency, and stabilize customer delivery performance.
Role Summary: Accountable for the execution of the S&OP process within the product group, including providing oversight for process conformance. This role ensures S&OP Process compliance, working collaboratively across multiple regions and functional groups, including Facility Demand Management, Marketing, Business Resources, Supply Chain, Operations and others as needed. This role’s span of control will vary due to business differences including value stream complexity, size, the number of facilities and locations, and sourcing strategies. Overall business complexity is driven by volume, sales, sourcing strategy, the number of products and model mix.
Job Duties:
Participates in the Machine Business Review, where inputs from dealers, economists and marketing occur. The S&OP Coordinator reviews and manages that data to ensure it is correct and that demand signals, including both short and long-term forecasts are clear before provided to the next process.
Organizes and leads the supply meeting and the pre-S&OP meeting. The incumbent may lead / facilitate the Supply Review meeting across multiple facilities, product lines and regions.
Ensures Product Groups maximize percent of industry sales (PINS), improve availability and maximize profitability.
Plays a key role in sizing and managing the Lane Strategy and PDC Inventory Planning. In addition, may manage portions of product availability initiatives and work cross-functionally with other product groups. The incumbent may also manage portions of the business’ capacity management processes, green books for capital expansion and the order management process.
Performs highly complex what-if scenarios that are presented to the Product Group’s leadership team and other process partners. Those scenarios are then presented to Supply Chain and Operations to ensure they are executable.
Prepares documentation for the pre-S&OP meeting, highlighting needed changes, and financial impacts and action plans.
Provides supporting facts, data and statistics that depend on their understanding of forecasts and all other inputs to the process and to champion an enterprise point of view during S&OP Meetings and other collaborative communications.
Recommends sourcing decisions to the Product Group to maximize OPACC and Profit, balancing facility capability, inventory flow and utilization, and volumes. This role will be called upon as a subject matter expert on sourcing and may be called upon to work with NPI Managers and Worldwide or Regional Product Managers to support sourcing decisions.
Ensures key meetings are scheduled, held and driven to decision, with action items identified and delivered upon.
Makes recommendations for S&OP Metrics Targets, and monitors process performance.
Ensures process support teams within all involved functional groups are adequately trained to conduct their role within the S&OP Process. This training will be deployed throughout the organization from Leadership Teams all the way through the organization and may come in the form of direct training for the individual, coordination for training assistance from former or current process participants or from corporate process resources.
Additional Details: While the Product Manager is accountable for final decision-making, the S&OP Coordinator is the principal liaison with other process partners and source for critical data inputs. The S&OP Coordinator must understand corporate timelines, reporting requirements and decisions required at each stage of the S&OP Process, especially impacts from changes to the Business Plan and the financial impacts to supply chain and operations. Metrics impacting this role: STIP, OPACC, PINS, Margin, Availability, Finished Goods Inventory and Inventory Turns. Some travel is required (up to 15%). This role is located in Peoria, IL; domestic relocation assistance is available.
What You Have (Skills, Knowledge and Experience)
Capacity Planning & Management: This role must understand all indicators/metrics within the S&OP process, including industry, sales, finished goods inventory, production, commercial and factory orders and availability measures. In addition to business metrics, the incumbent must understand S&OP Process Compliance Metrics.
Products & Services: Advanced experience and knowledge about production scheduling principles, specifically those applied to Sales and Operations planning, demand management, constraint management, and supply chain planning.
Collaborating Skills: Strong collaborative and interpersonal skills in order to support the common S&OP Process across multiple departments within a business division.
Analytical Thinking: Excellent decision-making, analytical and problem-solving skills, and the ability to develop and advocate for recommendations on key business decisions with process partners both in and outside their business unit.
Forecasting: Prepare complex concepts for presentation to business decision makers and supporting team members; Demonstrate leadership to enforce process discipline across monthly business cycle.
Top Candidates Will Also Have
Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain, marketing, manufacturing, or industrial engineering
Experience either within the product group, within the functional discipline, or in process execution in a manufacturing environment
Experience in Scheduling, Production Scheduling, Master Scheduling, Machine / Components Orders Management, Industrial Engineering, Procurement, Manufacturing Engineering, Marketing/ Sales Operations, Marketing Demand/Velocity Manager
Advanced expertise in Power Point/Excel, Corporate Demand Systems
Strong ability to deal with uncertainty, ambiguity and be agile
Prior experience as a Black Belt or Master Black Belt
How We Support You (Employee Benefits)
Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. We offer a total rewards package that provides day one benefits (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of a yearly bonus. Additional benefits include paid vacation days, paid volunteer days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).
At Caterpillar, we believe each person is unique and valued, and are committed to ensuring that our workplace is diverse and representative of the many customers we serve around the globe. Different perspectives help us achieve our best work and come together to form a high-performing Caterpillar team that makes positive changes in the communities where we live and work.
Relocation is available for this position.
Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers.
Posting Dates:
June 12, 2024 - June 19, 2024
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
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