Title: | Senior SIOP Manger |
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ID: | 578 |
Location: | DeKalb, IL |
THE ROLE:
The newly created role of Senior SIOP Manager (Sales Inventory and Operations Planning) is an exciting opportunity at CST Industries to work across various parts of our growing organization! Responsibility includes overseeing the coordination and execution of the monthly SIOP process to ensure the forward-looking alignment of demand, supply, capacity, inventory, and revenue expectations are balanced and achievable. In this highly visible and collaborative role, the incumbent will work alongside production, sales, marketing, finance, and sourcing teams on a routine basis to ensure that long-range planning is visible and communicated to capitalize on growth objectives. The Senior SIOP Manager is the leader and point person in developing and executing the monthly collaborative SIOP alignment process. Through escalating cross-functional meetings, he/she will develop a plan between sales, engineering, supply, internal capacities, and financial objectives in the form of a single, achievable plan that will roll out across multiple manufacturing facilities. He/she coordinates the monthly SIOP process through a series of cross-functional meetings: data gathering and forecasting, supply/demand planning, production capacity planning, pre-SIOP alignment, followed by the executive SIOP roll-up meeting occurring monthly. This position reports to the Vice President of Global Supply Chain and is a key member of the CST Industries Supply Chain team.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
ADDITIONAL SCOPE:
Demand reviews: Develop and enhance the demand review process by working closely with production scheduling, project managers, purchasing, and operations.
Supply reviews: Develop and enhance the material supply review process and ensure it’s provided as a key input into SIOP by working with Sourcing Managers. Ensure that supply and capacity constraints are clearly spelled out with risks and opportunities identified to maximize throughput at each manufacturing location.
Data gathering: Identify and optimize key data resources (historical and future) in a variety of systems relating to supply, demand, capacity, inventory, and forecasting to drive achievement in short term and long-term business results.
SIOP meeting preparation: Prepare for multiple escalating monthly meetings, reconciling supply to demand, aligning with the financial plans, while understanding the financial implications of different scenarios. Align with stakeholders of information on discussion points and ensure that all inputs needed for meetings are available, timely, and accurate.
Meeting facilitation: Facilitate multiple monthly SIOP meetings, ensuring that all information is presented, all stakeholders are engaged, decisions are made, and execution plans articulated with owners and completion dates.
Meeting follow-up: Ensure that decisions from the meetings are communicated to each function/department/team and ensure that execution takes place. Ensure that the SIOP process is sustained to the minimum level of agreed upon maturity with continuous improvements throughout development. Drive a continuous improvement of SIOP culture across the organization by implementing best practices and standardization of each SIOP cycle meeting agenda, content, and template. Document current process and identify current challenges and options to improve.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS:
CST Industries, Inc., headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, is the global leader in the manufacture and construction of factory coated storage tanks, silos, aluminum domes and specialty covers. With over 125 years of heritage and 350,000 installations in more 125 countries, CST Industries is focused on providing our customers the highest level of quality and customer service. CST's existing company portfolio consists of CST Storage Products, CST Covers, and Vulcan Tanks. Manufacturing facilities and technical design centers are located in Parsons, Kansas; Winchester, Tennessee; DeKalb, Illinois; Conroe, Texas; Gardena, California and the United Kingdom. Regional sales offices are located throughout North America and in Mexico, Argentina, United Kingdom, India, Dubai, Singapore and Vietnam. CST offers attractive, competitive compensation and benefits including, medical, dental, life, STD, paid vacation, 401k and an EAP program.