Forecast To Schedule Supply Chain Lead - Remote

Update: Motion has partnered with a premier client to fill a long term contract fully remote opporutnity. This is a great opportunity for some extra work with a well known company.

Are you a Forecast To Schedule & Supply Chain Lead  looking for a long term contract opportunity? Are you experienced IBP and have a minimum of 2-3 IBP full life cycle deployments under your belt? Are you an experienced leader who has provided that leadership of all FTS and DevSecOps related matters across Supply, Demand and Response? Ever worked in the CPG space? Do you have at least 2 years SAP IBP Supply/Demand configuration and transactional experience? This position may be for you.
Required Skills & Experience

• 9+ years in supply chain with minimum 5+ years' experience with IBP (Integrated Business Planning)
• Minimum 2-3 fully life cycles of IBP deployment
• This is a command center lead to oversee all of the shared DSO activities including, but not limited to batch jobs run-time, SLA, quarterly releases, alignment and harmonization between both food and beverage, identify dependencies and work to resolve them.
• 2 years of SAP IBP Supply/Demand configuration - IBP (Integrated Business Planning)
• 2 years of IBP Supply/Demand Transactional Experience
• Good overall understanding of CPI-DS master data and key figure data interfaces
  • CPI-DS is a cloud-based data integration tool for batch & scheduled data integration between on-premise applications and the SAP cloud platform
• Expertise in creating and using IBP Supply Planning Views, Master Data Workbooks, S&OP profiles, Application Job Templates, Copy Operators
  • S&OP = Sales & Operations Planning: an integrated planning process that aligns demand, supply, and financial planning and is managed as part of a company's master planning. S&OP is designed and executed to support executive decision-making related to approving a feasible and profitable material and financial plan.
• Provide overall leadership and oversight of all FTS and DSO related matters across both Supply, Demand and Response
  • FTS = Forecast to Schedule - formerly referred to as SCM or Supply Chain Management or Planning
  • DSO = DevSecOps - formerly referred to as Sustain
• Performance Tuning Experience
• CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) experience is a plus

What You Will Be Doing

• This role will need to provide overall leadership and oversight of all forecast to schedule FTS (Forecast to Schedule – formerly SCM – Supply Chain management or planning) DSO (DevSecOps – used to be referred to as Sustain) related matters across both Supply, Demand and Response. This is a command center lead to oversee all of the shared DSO activities including, but not limited to batch jobs run-time, SLA, quarterly releases, alignment and harmonization between both food and beverage, identify dependencies and work to resolve them.
• 2 years of SAP IBP Supply/Demand configuration - IBP (Integrated Business Planning)
• 2 years of IBP Supply/Demand Transactional Experience
• Good overall understanding of CPI-DS master data and key figure data interfaces
  • CPI-DS is a cloud-based data integration tool for batch & scheduled data integration between on-premise applications and the SAP cloud platform
• Expertise in creating and using IBP Supply Planning Views, Master Data Workbooks, S&OP profiles, Application Job Templates, Copy Operators
  • S&OP = Sales & Operations Planning: an integrated planning process that aligns demand, supply, and financial planning and is managed as part of a company's master planning. S&OP is designed and executed to support executive decision-making related to approving a feasible and profitable material and financial plan.
• 9-12 years in the supply chain space and at least 5 years’ experience with IBP
• 2-3 fully life cycles of IBP deployment
• CPG Experience is a plus. (Consumer Packaged Goods)
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.
• Escalate appropriate decisions making requirements or process “choice point” to Global Process Owner
• Willing to challenge status quo and ask difficult questions to drive for optimum solutions and outcomes.
• Ability to influence and work through others.
• Open to new ways of working, adopting industry standards and best practices.
• Ability to articulate or demonstrate perspectives and experiences.
• Ability to deliver high quality outcomes particularly under tight timelines.
• Experience with planning and forecasting for large projects and programs.
• Provides outstanding customer service skills to direct and indirect customers, resolving very difficult and sensitive issues effectively.
• Prior experience in working matrix organization and managing multiple stakeholders would be added advantage.
• Solves highly complex problems within their work team.
• Strong influencing, facilitating, and consulting skills in working with stakeholders at all levels in the organization and across departments.
• Adaptability and flexibility including ability to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity and change.
• Experience in cross functional roles preferred.

You will receive the following benefits:

• Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family
• Dental & Orthodontia Benefits
• Vision Benefits
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• 401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options
• Paid Sick Time Leave
• Legal and Identity Protection Plans
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit
• 529 College Saver Plan

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Veterans/Disability/Women. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.