Sales Inventory Operations Planning Manager

Excellence. Pride. Integrity. Compassion. Trust. Are you ready to plant your career in a place where words like these serve as the foundation for doing business every day? At Michigan Sugar, our purpose is Making Life Sweeter, and our mission is Creating Growth and Opportunity.

Michigan Sugar Company has an immediate full-time opportunity for a Sales and Operations Planning Manager, located at the Corporate Office, Bay City, MI 48708. Job Summary The SIOP Manager is responsible for overseeing the customer supply chain process. This includes order management, procurement, scheduling, planning, and forecasting of all products. They will lead the cross-functional process to align sales forecasts, inventory targets, and operational capacity into a single, unified cross campaign strategic plan. They optimize supply chain performance, ensuring profitability, high customer service levels, and reduced inventory costs by collaborating across Sales, Finance, Supply Chain, and Operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Monthly SIOP Cycle: Facilitate the end-to-end SIOP process (demand planning, supply review, and stakeholder consensus) facilitating weekly and bi-weekly production planning and execution meetings.
• Demand & Supply Alignment: Strategically analyze and reconcile sales demand with supply and inventory capacity to identify gaps, risks, and opportunities.
• Inventory Optimization: Manage inventory levels, minimizing stockouts and excess inventory to support service objectives and financial goals.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Lead meetings with Sales, Marketing, Manufacturing, and Finance to ensure a collaborative planning approach.
• Constraint Management: Identify strategic supply chain execution risks bringing them to bear with cross-functional team to identify options for resolution.
• Supply Chain Modeling: Leverage internal ERP system, databases and skills to create fully integrated long term strategic Supply Chain modeling capabilities.
• KPI Management & Reporting: Develop and manage metrics package for Supply Chain to include both leading and lagging metrics.
• Process Improvement: Drive continuous improvement in planning, forecasting tools, and ERP utilization to enhance efficiency.
• Reporting and Analytics: Utilize ERP, MRP, and planning systems to develop schedules, analyze data to support business decision-making, develop and maintain reporting tools, dashboards, and performance metrics, prepare executive-level summaries, analyze operational performance data identifying trends impacting service levels, inventory, and schedule adherence and recommendations regarding inventory, production performance, and supply chain risks.

Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve scheduling processes, planning accuracy, inventory management, and supply chain performance. Participate in continuous improvement initiatives focused on efficiency, cost reduction, and customer service enhancement.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Operations Management, or related field.
• Experience: Generally 5+ years in supply chain, production planning, or operations, with at least 3 years in a SIOP/Demand Planning leadership role.
• Skills: Strong data analysis skills (ERP/MRP systems), high proficiency in Excel, PowerBI, database management, cross-functional leadership, and strong communication abilities.

Key Competencies

• Demonstrated ability in supply chain optimization.
• ERP Software
• OEE implementation

NOTE: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by staff assigned to this position. The above statements are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills that may be required. All staff may be required to perform duties outside their normal responsibilities as needed. Michigan Sugar Company offers competitive salary, opportunity for professional growth, and provides excellent medical insurance 100% company paid. A comprehensive benefits package includes: dental and life insurances, 401k match, paid holidays, vacation, sick leave and more. To learn more visit www.michigansugar.com .

Michigan Sugar Company was founded in 1906 when six smaller sugar companies merged their operations. In 2002, Michigan Sugar Company became a grower-owned cooperative and in 2004, it merged with Monitor Sugar Company to form the company that exists today.

Michigan Sugar Company is headquartered in Bay City and has sugarbeet processing facilities in Bay City, Caro, Croswell and Sebewaing, Michigan. Its nearly 900 grower-owners plant and harvest up to 160,000 acres of sugarbeets each year in 20 Michigan counties, as well as Ontario, Canada. Those beets are sliced at the factories and turned into about 1.3 billion pounds of sugar annually.

That sugar is sold to industrial, commercial and retail customers under the Pioneer and Big Chief brands.

Michigan Sugar Company has 930 year-round employees and an additional 1,100 seasonal workers. It is the No. 1 employer in Huron County, the No. 2 employer in Bay and Sanilac counties and the No. 3 employer in Tuscola County. The company’s annual payroll is more than $65 million and its annual local economic impact is about $500 million.

Michigan Sugar Company is the third largest of eight sugarbeet processing companies in the United States and Michigan is one of 11 states where sugarbeets are grown in the country.

Michigan Sugar Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer