Head of Sales & Operations Planning (m/f/d)

KNDS Germany develops, manufactures and maintains a wide-spread product portfolio as a system house. These include combat tanks, highly protected wheel vehicles, artillery systems, military bridges, customer service and training solutions. As part of the KNDS Group, we stand for the start of the consolidation of the industry for military land systems in Europe. We offer highly interesting, complex and challenging activities in a collegial environment. Our employees appreciate this, whether in development, production or administration. We successfully combine innovative capability with tradition and many years of experience.

As Head of Department (m/w/d) Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) you are responsible for the integrated sales, production and inventory planning. You control and optimise the S&OP process, create a well-founded decision-making basis for management and management and actively promote the transformation of planning processes, systems and cross-departmental cooperation. You assume the overall responsibility for the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process at the department level. This includes the moderation and continuous development of the monthly S&OP cycle – from demand planning to supply planning to pre-S&OP and Executive S&OP. You consolidate and validate sales forecasts in close coordination with sales, business areas, operations and finance to create a resilient basis for decisions. From the consolidated forecasts, you conduct an integrated production, procurement and inventory planning and ensure its implementation. You identify bottlenecks, develop scenarios and give informed recommendations for action to ensure service level, cost optimization and inventory management. In the course of this, decision-relevant documents prepare for top management and present them competently at all levels of management. Controlling target conflicts between service levels, costs and stocks is one of your tasks as well as defining, monitoring and developing relevant KPIs. In addition, you drive the optimization and further development of planning processes, tools and systems, including advanced planning systems, to increase efficiency and transparency. In your function, interdisciplinary teams guide you professionally within the framework of the S&OP process, promote talent and actively shape cross-departmental cooperation.

For this demanding management task, you have a completed university degree (Master or Diploma) in the field of business management, economic engineering or a comparable qualification. In addition, you will bring many years of professional and leadership experience in leading function within a complex industrial or technology environment ideally in the areas of sales or operations. You are responsible for the further development of the department, shaping its strategic orientation and driving forward the continuous optimization of organization, processes and competencies in the sense of a future-oriented transformation. Very good knowledge in the fields of demand planning, production planning and inventory management are expected. You also have experience in the implementation and optimization of sales and operations, as well as in the handling of ERP and planning systems. You are also familiar with large amounts of data. Their mode of operation is structured, analytical and consistent. Complex issues prepare for different stakeholders to the top management level. In addition, you are convinced by a strong leadership, a high degree of decision-making and enforcement, as well as by integration and cooperation. A sovereign appearance, very good communication and presentation skills as well as conflict resolution competence complete your profile. High resilience, sense of responsibility, integrity and a pronounced readiness to travel are assumed. Lastly, you have very good knowledge of German and English in word and writing.

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