WHO IS INFINIUM SPIRITS?

Founded in 2005, we are a family-owned spirits company. At Infinium Spirits, we specialize in sales, marketing, and logistics for a diverse and distinctive portfolio of award-winning spirits brands such as Templeton Rye, Zaya Rum, Seagram’s Vodka, Corralejo Tequila, and Crystal Head Vodka to name a few. In addition to our core powerhouse brands and portfolio, we are continually launching successful innovations and expanding our product portfolio. We are known for igniting brands and accelerating brand performance in North American and International markets.

COME WORK WITH US

Our business and corporate teams are both growing fast. We build brands and believe in bringing people and communities together to celebrate. As we scale, we’re looking for people who are ready to jump right in and help us build on our incredible momentum. We empower employees to make an impact and create the best work of their lives alongside some truly astounding colleagues. We have fun and love what we do!

Diversity. Equity. Inclusion. They’re more than just words for us. We are committed to creating an inclusive and fair workplace that promotes and values diversity. At Infinium, we believe that when people feel a sense of belonging, they are more creative, innovative, and successful. While we know we have more work to do to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion, we’re investing to move our company and industry forward. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, national origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.

ABOUT THE JOB

The Sales & Operations Planning Manager (S&OP) is a critical role reporting to the Director of Supply Chain and is based out of the Company’s headquarters in San Diego, CA. This position has responsibility for working with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure the right end to end Supply Chain Planning strategies, processes, and global Sales, Inventory, Operations, and Planning (SIOP) are in place to support business and customer needs. This position is also accountable to drive comprehensive Supply Chain business metrics and ensures alignment of Supply Chain strategies with global and regional business strategies. The S&OP Manager is accountable for end-to-end supply chain excellence, inventory and service levels and setting priorities & direction for Infinium.

A successful candidate in this role will need to establish foundational analytics and metrics to help implement planning and forecasting excellence to help drive growth and the execution of company-wide strategies. This role works closely with key stakeholders to resolve issues and strategize how to remove obstacles to success. Building and driving operational excellence and focusing on continuous improvement across the enterprise is also a key aspect of this role. The S&OP Manager will develop accurate and timely demand forecasts while reducing inventory/working capital and minimizing forecast variability. They partner with commercial planning teams (Sales, Commercial, Finance, and Supply Chain) to gather inputs to build the consensus demand plan through the Sales and Operations Commercial Planning (S&OP) process.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS/THE DAY-TO-DAY:

Develop accurate and timely demand forecast while reducing inventory/working capital and minimizing forecast variability.
Understand and resolve known supply constraints or excess inventory risks and communicate to commercial teams in the S&OP demand review.
Ensure consistency of forecast assumptions across international and domestic business units, including base business trends, promotional plans, cannibalization of new launches, seasonal volume.
Analyze historical sales data and future plans. Work cross-functionality to achieve continuous improvement in demand forecast accuracy. Improve overall demand plan.
Prepare written analyses, documentation, reports or other data.
Work with suppliers to resolve supply issues or develop alternate sourcing strategies.
Responsible for developing a Global Inventory Strategy Process, ensuring the establishment of target inventory levels by SKU and mix to achieve management objectives for service levels, backorder incidence/duration and inventory.
Work closely with distribution team to optimize inventory levels based on warehousing capacity and cost.
Oversee aging and hold inventory by working closely with the logistics and quality team. Management of Slow Moving and Obsolete (SLOB) inventory.
Lead the monthly S&OP process/meetings (Demand review, Supply Review, one S&OP) for US and International markets.
Develop and maintain S&OP KPIs, including forecast variance, forecast bias, Back Order, OTIF, Inventory, and Forecast Accuracy.
Proactively communicate potential supply issues with the product supply, while leading issue resolution.
Communicate new product introductions to business units as required.
Standardize the process for reporting information, such as dashboards, in the S&OP ensuring that the right level of information is available to key stakeholders.
Ensure business continuity for the projects that require planning preparation (e.g. seasonal build ups, contingencies associated to demand volatility and unforeseen conditions, etc.).
Participate, actively drive, and champion adoption of newly implemented systems, procedures and tools

AM I THE RIGHT FIT?

Not everyone can be a Forecast Planning Manager. To be seriously considered for the role here is what you’ll bring:

Education/Licenses/Certifications:

BA/BS degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business or related field preferred
APICS/CPIM certifications a plus

Experience:

Minimum 5 years of relevant business experience within Supply Chain Planning

Skills/Traits:

High level of proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, and MS Outlook.
Demonstrated success in Global Supply, Demand, and Inventory Planning as well as S&OP is required
Strong knowledge of ERP inventory, planning, purchasing and cost systems and implementation of such in a global environment - Microsoft Business Central preferred.
Experience developing a grassroots S&OP process in a startup environment.
High tolerance of ambiguity and comfortable working towards weekly deliverables in a highly complex and collaborative environment.
Knowledge and experience of managing transportation and logistics is a plus.
Strong demonstrated history of problem solving using analytical techniques.
Lean Six Sigma exposure is a plus.
Possess well-developed communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills to be able to build strong work relationships with all levels of the organization.
Have the ability to synthesize information and create a clear synopsis of key issues.
Possess strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize, handle multiple tasks, and work independently.
Ensure attention to detail.
Demonstrate professional judgment and sound decision-making skills.
Demonstrate success in persuasion, influence and negotiation skills.
Demonstrate success in leading and developing a team of individual contributors and leaders.
Ability to manage in complex situations often needing to deliver innovative results.
Demonstrated success in persuasion, influence, and negotiation skills.

Physical requirements:

Work is performed in an office environment and requires the ability to operate standard office equipment and keyboards.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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