S&OP Director

Job Description

Embark on a thrilling journey where strategic vision meets operational excellence.

This role is at the heart of driving regional responses to global S&OP processes, ensuring supply plans are both feasible and resilient. As a senior decision-maker, shape supply allocation strategies, manage excess inventory, and provide cross-regional support. Represent the region in global forums and collaborate with peers to shape SIP strategy, offering leadership and strategic decision-making authority!

Core Responsibilities

The director of S&OP is accountable for the following:

• Leading regional response to global S&OP processes
• Ensuring feasibility, balanced and resilient supply plans
• Senior decision maker for
• Supply allocation in line with seasonal plan
• Cross regional support
• Excess inventory management
• Representing the region in global forums
• Shaping SIP strategy in collaboration with peers globally

Ultimately the role is about providing TLG leadership, strategic decision-making authority and representation of the region in global processes.

Play your part in our team succeeding

The EMEA SIP team works closely with BUs, Demand Planning and packing sites to make products available on time to support commercial plans. This involves developing production strategies to handle uncertainty in demand, as well as supply chain constraints to deliver the best possible availability, whilst minimising inventory obsolescence exposure.

The role supports the Head of SIP, providing leadership of S&OP, excess and cross flow processes across the region and with global alignment. Key is ensuring feasibility of supply plans to support commercial ambition whilst simultaneously driving accountability to minimise financial risks, including regional level stock provisions.

Do you have what it takes

The ideal candidate comes with more than a decade of experience in supply chain planning, inventory management or S&OP with at least 3 years in senior leadership.

Moreover, they come with:

• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in complex, global environments.
• Strong strategic thinking and decision-making skills with experience balancing short term execution and long-term business goals.
• Strong communication skills: Can convey clearly complex problems and solutions to a diverse audience.
• Great teammate: Collaborative style, yet able to stand their ground.
• Resilience: Enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, sometimes under pressure.
• Strong analytical capabilities and enjoys working with numbers.
• Innovative & Curious: Able to find new ways of doing things, whilst seeking first to understand why things are as they are
• Knowledge of planning tools, such as SAP APO and Excel/Power BI.

The position is based in London, UK and relocation support is not offered for this role.

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Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

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