S&OP Manager, Madrid

Job Description

If you are motivated about consumer goods related data and insights with a curious approach to identifying trends and have the commercial foresight and communication skills to want to make a meaningful impact on the success of our business across Iberia which impacts children around the world, we’d love to hear from you!

In return, we will provide a people led and development-focused environment with strong bonus potential and a benefits package that you would expect from a major international brand.

Please note: This is a permanent position located in our Madrid office. Our flexible working model allows employees to work 2 days/week from home (3 days in the office).

We are unable to offer relocation support for this role.

****Please apply with an English CV****

• Own the S&OP process in-market connecting with relevant colleagues, making recommendations to Leadership that drive development and trigger deployment aligned to Market Group processes.
• Coordinate preparation of documents for the Demand Review
• Coordinate the calendar of events as required to ensure all inputs are captured based on key S&OP decisions and directions to be communicated in a timely manner.
• Facilitate the monthly Demand Review meeting in support of the General Manager
• Be the guardian of the S&OP leadership behaviours.
• Drive both top and bottom down Market Group assumptions reporting into the regional team.
• Partner with the Demand Planners to forecast both sell in and consumer sales for Iberia ensuring the forecast is done at monthly level and updated.
• Collaborate with Sales, challenging them on the forecasts of push volume (bundles, promotions, launches) and bringing in Demand Planners in that process.
• Play a key role in ingesting the top down, regional assumptions whilst also ensuring Market Group Demand Planners are aware of any key specific assumptions that should be considered for the full demand planning horizon.
• Partner with regional Demand Planning to ensure the full horizon demand plan is taken into consideration key assumptions and the overall build of the BU demand plan looks right.

Play your part in our team succeeding!

We are a global family business with a rich history and a bright future. As a member of our Iberian Operations team and part of the wider Business Unit, you will be joining a strong and diverse bunch of caring, collaborative, and driven colleagues striving for success.

Collaborating closely with Demand Planning, Brand/Trade Marketing, Finance and Sales colleagues being right at the centre of the Business Unit with a strong focus on taking those findings from the data and delivering up to in-country Leadership Team level. You will drive delivery of demand plans in collaboration with rest of the team and ensures that this demand plan takes into account all aspects of the Business Unit. On top of it, the Operations team is also taking care of order management, inventory management, customer service and secures operational infrastructure for other market functions such as Sales and Marketing.

Do you have what it takes?

• In-depth data led Operations exposure working within an international consumer goods environment.
• Experience working in a supply chain and/or commercial environment with a focus on data/ insight that has a commercial impact.
• Previous Demand Planning experience would be preferable/ exposure either within or partnering with Commercial and the wider commercial Business Unit would be an advantage).
• Strong written and verbal skills with a proven track record of building and delivering a narrative that simplifies the message for commercial partners (up to Leadership level).
• Business proficiency in English both written and spoken as well as fluent in Spanish is essential.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

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