Global Sales & Operations Planning Manager

The global Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) Manager is responsible for leading the mid‑term alignment of commercial demand, industrial capacity, and financial objectives through a structured and collaborative S&OP process. This role drives cross‑functional decision‑making across Sales, Marketing, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Purchasing, and Finance to deliver a single, feasible mid‑term plan. The S&OP Director proactively challenges demand, supply, and capacity assumptions, identifies risks, and ensures execution of decisions through regional and global governance.

Key responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Aligning Supply and Demand on a mid‑term horizon (Y+1, Y+2)
• Challenging Demand and Supply assumptions on a mid‑to long‑term horizon (Year+1 to Year+4) to reduce business risk
• Leading scenario planning (“what‑if” analyses) to support market share, compliance, profitability, and energy mix flexibility
• Challenging 4–12 month production Demand and Supply assumptions to support Regional Supply & Demand decisions
• Driving capacity investment decisions across Manufacturing and Suppliers and avoiding unnecessary or premature investments
• Leading Global Supply & Demand governance and ensuring execution of decisions across Regional and Global committees
• Consolidating and presenting global Supply & Demand syntheses (Master Production Plan, CO₂ compliance, Budget Y+1, Take‑or‑Pay monitoring) at EVP‑level forums