Job Details
- Contract Type:
- Unlimited / Full-Time
- Country / City:
- United States / Stamford, CT
- Company:
- Beiersdorf Inc.
- Job Function:
- Supply Chain Management
Your Tasks
- Lead and govern the monthly S&OP cycle, including Account Prep, Brand Health, and Consensus , ensuring connectivity and consistency across the different forums.
- Serve as an active member of the S&OP Core Team , supporting the Core Team Lead and Co-Lead in driving the S&OP agenda, priorities, governance, and ways of working.
- Coordinate the operating rhythm of the S&OP Core Team, including scheduling meetings, preparing agendas and materials, documenting key decisions and action items, tracking follow-ups, and ensuring topics progress between meetings .
- Plan, prepare, and facilitate S&OP workshops and working sessions ,
- Bring structure, clarity, and forward momentum to S&OP topics by proactively identifying required next steps, owners, dependencies, and decisions.
- Operate with a high degree of independence, proactively driving topics forward and engaging the appropriate stakeholders without requiring continuous direction from the Core Team Lead or Co-Lead.
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of the assumptions behind each component of the business plan, including KAP, SISO, and OMP , and their impact on the consensus plan.
- Serve as the central point connecting assumptions across functions, proactively identifying, challenging, and resolving conflicting assumptions.
- Ensure S&OP discussions are timely, structured, fact-based, and focused on the key decisions required from the organization.
- Facilitate trade-off discussions with clear articulation of risks, opportunities, financial implications, service impacts, and planning considerations .
- Identify topics requiring Executive S&OP visibility and partner with the Senior Demand Planning Manager to determine appropriate escalation and decision requirements.
- Prepare and deliver executive-level S&OP materials, translating complex data and assumptions into concise, actionable business insights.
- Provide the Director of Planning and Senior Manager of Demand Planning with clear fact-based assumptions, business context, risks, and decision points to enable effective leadership of Executive S&OP.
- Proactively drive continuous improvement of S&OP processes, tools, governance, and ways of working.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, transparency, and proactive problem-solving across the S&OP process.
- Lead strategic and operational planning projects based on evolving business requirements and organizational priorities .
- Manage cross-functional initiatives involving partners across Planning, COE, Controlling, Finance, Supply Chain, Sales, Marketing, and other relevant functions , depending on project scope.
- Establish clear project objectives, scope, deliverables, milestones, ownership, and governance to ensure successful execution.
- Develop and manage project plans, proactively identifying dependencies, risks, resource constraints, and potential roadblocks.
- Coordinate activities across multiple stakeholders and functions, ensuring alignment on expectations, timing, responsibilities, and intended outcomes.
- Facilitate cross-functional working sessions and decision-making forums, ensuring discussions translate into clear actions, owners, and next steps.
- Monitor project progress and proactively escalate risks, decisions, or resource requirements when necessary.
- Translate complex business needs into structured planning solutions, processes, tools, and ways of working .
- Support implementation and change management for new planning processes, capabilities, tools, or organizational ways of working.
Your Profile
- 5–10+ years of experience in Supply Chain, Demand Planning, S&OP, Business Planning, Project Management, or related functions .
- Demonstrated experience leading complex cross-functional processes or projects.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across functions without direct authority.
- Experience managing projects from problem definition through implementation and transition into business-as-usual processes.
- Experience in FMCG / Consumer Goods preferred.
- Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and priorities.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to connect detailed planning assumptions with broader business and financial implications.
- Ability to challenge assumptions constructively and facilitate fact-based decision-making.
- Ability to translate complex data and business issues into clear executive-level insights and recommendations.
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, cross-functional, and ambiguous environment.
- Proficiency in planning systems and analytical tools such as SAP, APO/IBP, Excel, and Power BI.
- Ability to lead through influence and create alignment across functions.
- Strong ownership, accountability, and bias for action.
- Ability to bring structure and clarity to complex or ambiguous business challenges.
- Strong decision-making and prioritization skills.
- Confident facilitator who can constructively challenge assumptions while maintaining collaborative relationships.
- Ability to move between strategic thinking and detailed execution .
- Collaborative, solution-oriented, and continuous-improvement mindset.
Base Salary Range: $118,900.00 - $149,100.00 base salary
Actual placement within the compensation range may vary depending on experience, skills and other factors.
Additional information
At Beiersdorf, we value diversity and aim to provide equal opportunities to all of our applicants – regardless of e.g. gender, sexual identity, nationality, ethnicity, religion or ideology, disability or age. We would therefore ask you to include only information and data in your documents which are relevant for the assessment of your application (e.g. curriculum vitae with relevant references and certificates). For instance, please feel free to upload your CV without a picture.
Beiersdorf North America - Recent Awards
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company Outlook (2021, 2024, 2025)• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company Work Life Balance (2025)
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company Culture (2023, 2024)
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company Compensation (2020, 2022-2024)
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company Perks and Benefits (2024, 2025)
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company for Happiness (2022,2023, 2024, 2025)
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best CEO / General Manager (2020, 2024)
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Sales Team (2023, 2024, 2025)
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Leadership Teams (2020, 2021, 2023, 2025)
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company for Diversity (2022)
Check us out on Comparably: https://www.comparably.com/companies/beiersdorf
Having trouble applying? Go to www.BeiersdorfUSA.com to search our careers page. Beiersdorf is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
