Sales & Operation Execution Manager

Key Skills

Data science techniques, Effective communication skills, Leadership Skill, Lean Six Sigma, Microsoft-Excel, Operations, Planning and organization, Project management, Sales, SQL, Supply Chain Management, Tableau

Job Description

The Role :

We are passionate about bringing the Logitech experience to people anywhere in LATAM and want to be the most reliable and trustworthy Customer Supply Chain Partner Logitech and Customers have ever experienced. Therefore we are looking for a talented and experienced Sales & Operations Execution Manager with a passion for data that uses analytical and quantitative methods to understand, predict, simplify and present complex supply chain data to enhance customer supply chain processes.

This is a critical role for the organization that will be developing an SO&E and Data Science capability in a lean but resilient team that reports into the Head of Customer Supply Chain LATAM. In a collaborative process with Region Commercial Organization and Strategic Partnership Accounts, you will actively build Top Accounts Forecasts, meeting customer expectation of in-stock, inventory, and events and promotional activities, communicate customer needs and requirements to supply chain partners to facilitate inventory planning and deployment. 

You will also participate in formulating and implementing distribution and logistics strategies, supply chain processes and systems, and order planning and execution at strategic level, to ensure the right products are supplied into markets at the right time.

You will optimize inventory in the short term horizon stemming from gaps between actual demand and supply and will be working directly with Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Customer Supply Chain and Regional Commercial & Marketing teams, across S&OE processes and methodologies.

The Key Success Factor :

Driving the strategic roadmap for continuous improvement and inspiring team members to work towards a common goal while assembling data, analyzing performance, identifying gaps, developing and presenting recommendations which support and optimize customer supply chain planning is what drives you. Passion for data is a must and your experienced eye will be able to quickly identify issues and areas of improvement, ranging from data definitions to the way to best calculate gaps between projected demand and supply.

You will need an ability to operate in a changing environment in an organization that is rapidly growing and maturing its ways of working to meet increasing expectations of our business partners and customers.

Be Yourself. Be Open. Stay Hungry and Humble. Collaborate. Challenge. Decide and just Do. These are the behaviors you’ll need for success at Logitech.

• Work with Global Planning teams Commercial Organization to identify potential stock shortages and optimize/ execute supply allocations to meet regional demand and revenue targets
• Work with Commercial Organization and potential Customers on Cross Collaboration to build Forecast Consensus and challenge the team on growth potential and Forecast Accuracy
• Prepare and manage weekly/monthly S&OE meetings with demand & category planning, supply planning, and customer teams to mitigate demand and supply gaps in the short term horizon
• Optimize supply through supply matching methodologies and expedite processes to meet regional revenue targets and service levels
• Have a continuous understanding of the outcome of forecasts, demand reviews and S&OP and translate these into short term S&OE expectations
• Inventory management including understanding and recommendations on excess and aging, inventory turn around times, rework and refurbishment activities
• Analyze customer demand signals, run dates, channel inventory, WOH, OSA and others to ensure the overall channel is balanced
• Drive collection of new data and refinement of existing data sources
• Develop, mature, report and generate actionable insights in Key Performance Indicators such as OTIF, OTD, Scorecards and others
• Support the Customer Supply Chain LATAM Leadership Team to enable high impact data driven decision making

Key Qualifications :

For consideration, you must bring the following minimum skills and behaviors to our team:

• 5-8 years of relevant working experience, preferable in the fields of Supply Chain, Operations, Demand Planning, Data Science or related fields
• Having worked in relevant industries with a strong focus on Retail and/or exposure to category/channel management
• An analytical mindset, able to analyze large amounts of data and make clear recommendations in high quality presentations
• You must have an ability to motivate, influence, drive and adjust to change in a complex matrix environment that is constantly adjusting to changing business circumstances
• Self-motivated and goal oriented, with a positive proactive attitude and a high degree of initiative
• You embrace continuous learning and process improvement
• A strong hands-on mentality and drive to get things done
• Good communications skills and judgment
• Growth mindset
• Standing for fact-based communication
• Advanced computing skills are essential, with significant advanced experience in analytical and database tools such as Excel, Tableau, Pentaho, OBIEE, PowerBI, and Basic MDX, VBA, R Script and/or SQL programming
• You have to be comfortable in a dynamic and international environment, with a proven ability to adjust easily to different cultures
• You understand business dynamics and context, and how your analysis and recommendations are impacting business decisions within all levels of the organization
• Certified SCM, project management or continuous improvement accreditation such as Lean Six Sigma, PMM, Prince2, Scrum, Agile and/or APICS is preferred.

Education :

• Master’s Degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics or similar discipline.
• Fluent English and Spanish, verbal and in writing.

Small Company. Big Products :

Logitech is the sweet spot for people who are passionate about products, making a mark, and having fun doing it. As a company, we’re small and flexible enough for every person to take initiative and make things happen. But we’re big enough in our portfolio, and reach for those actions to have a global impact. That’s a pretty sweet spot to be in and we’re always striving to keep it that way.