Founded in 1986 in Queens, our Dipping Company is a leader in the refrigerated dips and spreads category and producer of America’s top-selling hummus. Award-winning products offer consumers fresh new ways of eating and connecting and include a variety of flavors of hummus and guacamole.  Our people are driven by our purpose to unite and delight the world around planet positive food and are committed to supporting individuals ‘being at their best’ by bringing fresh ideas to the table and turning their passion for food into results that matter.

Come join the our team as the Associate Director, Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP). In this newly created role, you’ll be responsible for the successful application of the S&OP process inclusive of ensuring balance of demand and supply while optimizing company profitability, and leading and enhancing our  S&OP capabilities by driving alignment between various business functions. This role will report into the Sr. Director of Logistics, ensuring team adherence to commitments made through the S&OP Process.  Please note this role is not being offered fully remote at this time and will require on-site presence to our VA office.

Dip into this role

• Ensure that the S&OP process is sustained and effectively yields desired results.
• Manage designated team of Demand, Supply and 3PL Replenishment planners including the hiring of new talent, ensuring they are trained and proficient in company tools and systems, conducting performance reviews/conversations, creating development and succession plans, and providing regular feedback against company goals
• Provide inputs to annual operating plan (AOP) discussions and long-range planning. Monitor and adjust plan as required as business needs change.
• Provide proactive and regular updates on issues related to out-of-stock items, service issues, supplier issues, production schedule adherence, order issues, inventory metrics, and other related issues
• Ensure that new product introduction NPI and discontinuation plans have been properly communicated and are included as input to the demand planning process.
• Oversee demand planning function to assure correct generation of unconstrained demand forecast and to implement/adopt tools to streamline and increase automation of demand forecast generation including continuous improvement processes to improve forecast accuracy at aggregated and SKU levels. Ensures the demand review process happens routinely and on time.
• Execution of the supply review processes, ensure supply constraints are clearly defined with potential trade-offs. Oversee supply planning weekly cadence to optimize production and inventory plans based on customer orders and demand plan
• Work with Plant Operations team to identify opportunities for improvement related to capacity planning, production scheduling, productivity, plan attainment and target inventory levels
• Develop and maintain models and analytics as enabling tools for tactical and strategic use in the S&OP cycle. Generates what-if scenarios based on captured risks, opportunities, and inputs from the S&OP cycle to guide decision making. Periodically analyze long term capacity needs in advance of required internal and copacker lead times to add capacity
• Improve and execute capacity planning process to align and balance supply with demand to provide input for labor and equipment requirements for short and midterm planning
• Ensure cross-functional business plans (Customer Service, Logistics, Procurement, Operations, Sales, Marketing and Finance) are synchronized in future periods and key disconnects are highlighted and resolved.
• Develop SKU segmentation based on business rules and historical sales performance to build supply models (make to order, finish to order, make to stock) to deliver inventory and service level targets
• Responsible for projecting and maintaining inventory levels per corporate commitments through collaboration with Supply Chain team to optimize network inventory.
• Accountable for key metrics of Forecast Accuracy, Inventory (DIO) and days on hand, Fill Rate, E&O, and supply chain costs. Implement actions to improve these KPI’s
• Ensure all data generated via S&OP is timely and accurate and shared with the appropriate personnel
• Review the S&OP process to ensure its alignment with contemporary best practices and is suitable for our dynamic business needs. Drives continuous improvement to streamline the process and bring best practices to Sabra’s S&OP process. Leverage automation and technology including using existing tools (SAP) and developing additional dashboards and analytical tools.
• Hold contributing personnel, including leadership, to account for agreed actions, mitigation of risk and realization of opportunities as identified in the S&OP process. Escalate as appropriate
• Model Sabra’s key behaviors: Accountable, Trustworthy, Driven, See the Big Picture, Curious, Courageous, Teamwork, Authentic, Inclusive

Recipe for Success

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Logistics or Engineering. MBA or Master’s degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Finance, Engineering or equivalent preferred
• Minimum of 10+ years of experience in a highly analytical supply/demand planning (S&OP) environment, demand planning, supply planning, new products introduction, material planning and S&OP process, or Integrated Business Planning, CPG and perishable food background preferred
• Proven business management experience working across organization and varying levels of leadership with minimum five years in a managerial role
• Knowledge and experience in SAP, Integrated Business Planning (IBP) highly sought and/or MRP and ERP systems inventory control, materials required planning, demand planning, and advanced supply chain planning and analytics
• Highly skilled communicator with proven ability to communicate complex analytical conclusions simply and succinctly; influence or persuade others through oral and written presentations in positive or negative circumstances; listen well
• Proven ability to communicate with stakeholders across the organization, including listening to understand multiple viewpoints and their relevance to the success of S&OP outcomes
• Skilled at working with teams of people with disparate opinions and agendas to develop common outcomes, strategies, and plans. Builds a sense of team goals, focusing team while balancing trade-offs in each stakeholder community
• Strong skills as a meeting facilitator with the ability to keep a meeting on track while engaging all stakeholders and driving to a set of decisions that can be executed in the business
• A change agent and not satisfied with the status quo and works proactively to continually improve.
• Focused on ensuring that all data and activities are managed at an appropriate level of detail to ensure an accurate demand and supply plan
• Focuses on most important and relevant topics through identification of impact on business results

MUST HAVE:

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Logistics or Engineering.

10+ years of experience in a supply/demand planning (S&OP) environment.

Knowledge and experience in SAP and Integrated Business Planning (IBP), MRP and ERP systems inventory control.

NICE TO HAVE:

MBA or Master’s degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Finance, Engineering or related field.

CPG and perishable food background.

Company has applied an anti-COVID mindset in alignment with our business imperative of keeping employee safety and wellbeing first. All U.S.-based Sabra employees must provide proof of a fully completed COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment. On or before the first day of employment, new joiners must provide a copy of his/her COVID-19 vaccination record from the dispensing doctor, clinic or pharmacy. We provide reasonable accommodation(s) in accordance with federal, state, and local law.

We celebrate an inclusive environment and provide equal opportunity for development and advancement. As an equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, status as a covered veteran or uniform service member, or any other protected characteristic under applicable federal, state and/or local law.