Arconic
Director of Sales and Operations Planning - (Job Number: 19003438) (Finance)
Kawneer is the leading manufacturer of architectural aluminum products and systems for the commercial construction industry. Kawneer is part of Arconic's global Building and Construction Systems (BCS) business unit, which manufactures and markets architectural systems and products in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Role purpose
This role is responsible for optimizing the BCS supply chain network to enable above market revenue growth through strong customer satisfaction, optimized manufacturing costs, and debottlenecking of constrained flow paths. The position will be responsible for aligning manufacturing capacities with commercial opportunities utilizing Sales and Operations Planning processes including demand management, operations management, and optimizing the logistics and capacity utilization across the network to increase top line growth and margin expansion. The position will manage forecasting, sales and operating planning process, network optimization through loading and outsourcing utilization, transportation services include XPO management. The sales and operations process will develop and execute a vision that delivers operational excellence, resulting in best in class customer service and efficiency. The selected candidate will need to establish best in class supply chain processes, along with metrics necessary to track effectiveness, efficiency, and opportunities. The position will also need to develop a strategic sourcing process to leverage capacity and improve reaction time and costs of market changes and disruptions. The intent is to scale the processes globally to include Kawneer Europe and AAP locations.
This position will report to the Business Unit President and have dotted line reporting relationship to the location supply chain managers.
Key responsibilities of this role include:
Competencies:
This role requires implementation of new management and analytical standards across multiple disciplines and locations. Following initial implementation of the standard, the role will become responsible for driving a compliance and continuous improvement mindset across multiple areas of S&OP (Capacity, Metal, Supply, Transportation) and evaluate opportunity to leverage into Kawneer Europe
Knowledge, Skills and Experience