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Location

Luxembourg | Germany

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Job description

Company description:

As a Koch company, Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) specializes in process and pollution control equipment and digital technologies to help industries reduce emissions, save energy and get the most from their resources. From pollution control to advanced filtration, we’re focused on providing customers with products and solutions to help them optimize, transform and succeed. Industries we serve include refineries, chemical.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Job description:

The Equipment, Technology, and Services group of KES is building a Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) capability. We need an experienced, driven, creative thinker, who is skilled in facilitating the S&OP process that can be a part of the design, build, and standup of a global S&OP.  Our Sales & Operating Plans are critical to how we manage our business – how we predict and plan for demand, how we run and optimize our production assets, how much inventory we hold around the world, and how we collaborate and drive the most critical strategies in our business.

You will be working as part of a dynamic team Sales and Operations Planning team. This team has a broad range of knowledge and experience from different backgrounds. This role supports Europe, Middle East, Africa, and India. The successful candidate will report to the Global S&OP Director and be based or in Vimercate(Italy) or Dudelange (Luxembourg).

What you will do

• Work with regional commercial teams and global product owners to build demand forecast
• Work with regional operations, engineering and design, finance, and key stakeholders to develop optimized supply plans with a range of outcomes to meet global demand
• Framing decisions with recommended courses of action and economics on capacity optimization
• Conduct scenario analysis, opportunity framing and decision support in supply strategies, market demand, asset planning and supply chain network design
• Use, maintain, upgrade current planning systems/knowledge system and profitable implementation of technology to improve speed and effectiveness of decision making
• Input into long term capacity investment
• Coordinate and influence key activities in sales, finance, logistics, operations, sourcing, and commercial leadership to arrive at a viable business plan for the product lines within a region

Required profile:

• Proven experience within S&OP, supply chain or similar roles
• Bachelor's degree or higher in finance, supply chain, management, business or related area
• Demonstrated analytical capability, managing, and organizing multiple inputs and outputs
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships with others to gain trust
• Fluent in English and any other language such as French or Italian is a plus
• Experience working with diverse teams and holding others accountable
• Availability to travel up to 25% of work time, mostly in Europe

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience in critical chain theory, ERP systems, and supply chain planning/optimization systems
• Understanding and experience in using advanced analytics in driving better decisions

What we offer:

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

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