Judge Direct Placement

The Judge Group has partnered with a manufacturing client looking for a Product Manager for their team. This role is heavily focused on Research & Development on their products, market trends in the industry, and external customer facing relationships!

This job will have the following responsibilities:

• The successful candidate will work collaboratively with R&D, Sales, and Marketing colleagues to deliver best-in-class customer solutions as well as creative and novel food innovations
• Manage product brand(s) and portfolios to drive growth and marketing
• Lead cross-functional communication and process improvement with cross-functional partners including Sales, Marketing, and Business Development
• Customer project management by supporting the SOP process, new item introduction, and managing all aspects of the portfolio
• Conduct market research and analysis to identify industry trends, customer needs
• Monitor product performance, analyzing sales data, customer feedback, and market trends to identify areas for improvement
• Work with the sales team as the product expert and visit customers as needed
• Design promotion concepts in cooperation with product application and R&D

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Food Manufacturing or Food Science experience Required
• Experience dealing with external customers/clients
• Research and Development and Marketing project experience

Judge Direct Placement

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SIOP Manager – Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning

**They need someone with Manufacturing SIOP/Demand Planning

experience. Especially someone who has stood up a program.**

Responsibilities:

• Lead the monthly Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SIOP) process in delivering a predictable, reliable cross-functionally integrated Plan that aligns with the company’s objectives with a focus on balancing demand and supply, optimizing inventory, and minimizing lead-times.
• Develop, maintain, and utilize a Balanced Scorecard of KPIs to align performance with financial, operational, and strategic objectives.
• Enhance reporting for monthly/quarterly/annual reviews and drive story telling with data.
• Leverage analytics to provide timely data insights and recommendations to stakeholders throughout various areas of the organization.
• Work closely with Manufacturing, Procurement, and Logistics to ensure sufficient capacity exists in the supply and distribution networks.
• Set and maintain inventory targets.
• Monitor and maintain visibility to inventory health, evaluating performance, and proactively driving attention and marshalling required resources to develop and execute action plans to resolve issues.
• Embed structure, discipline, and continuous improvement into the SIOP process to enable robust, efficient action planning and decision making.
• Monitor functional group adherence to SIOP procedures, roles and responsibilities, and timelines.
• Oversee monthly SIOP process including scheduling meetings, coordinating content input, and preparing the Executive SIOP meeting deck, capturing action items, and issuing meeting minutes.
• Synthesize large amounts of data, decompose complex problems, and communicate across various levels of the organization using a variety of communication techniques including data visualization.
• Formulate and develop a strategic roadmap to mature the SIOP function and process.
• Be a change agent by continuously identifying, assessing, and leveraging process, technology, and capability enhancements.
• Oversee lifecycle planning (new production introduction (NPI) and end-of-life activities).
• And actively engage all stake holders to balance expectations with SIOP performance

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Operations Research, Mathematics, Engineering, or Business Management (Master’s degree preferred)
• 10+ years of strategic and in-depth, hand-on planning and operations experience
• Experience implementing and leading a SIOP/S&OP/IBP process with a proven track record of achieving financial, service, and operational performance targets.
• Strong E2E Business / Supply Chain Understanding; understands tradeoffs of balancing revenue, margin, and inventory to achieve sustainable, profitable growth.
• Be an inspiring and authentic leader, with demonstrated strength in coaching and developing a team, both employees and managers of others
• Strong executive presence and storytelling
• Excel at simplifying complex operational issues and turning data into actionable insights through the use of data visualization.
• Turn data into actionable business insights.
• Influencing & relationship building skills to drive action with appropriate urgency across critical cross-functional partnerships.
• Experience developing and executing innovative solutions that delivered a step-change in business results.
• Strong business, operational, financial and root cause acumen with a corrective action mindset
• Knowledge and experience using ERP (Infor-LN preferred) and planning systems required; implementation experience a plus.
• Exceptional ability to think creatively, generate options, build consensus, and execute.
• Strong project leadership, strategy development, process design, and change management skills
• Demonstrated success navigating ambiguity and being resilient in a dynamic multi-faceted business environment.
• Passion for driving continuous improvement; mature existing processes, systems, etc.
• Lead and solve complex organizational problems with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Strong interpersonal skills with an ability to collaborate and communicate effectively both cross-functionally and with executive leadership, senior management, peers, and team members.
• Seasoned people manager skilled at establishing goals, motivating and holding people accountable, and driving results through metrics.
• Capable of developing talent, inspiring new ways of working, building resiliency, and leading an organization to excellence

Judge Direct Placement