**IBP Lead/Manager** **Panama** **Come make the world and accelerate your success.** **It takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better For Those Who Make the World™. Sound like you. Join our top-notch team of more than 50,000 diverse and high-performing professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the world’s most beloved brands, including DEWALT®, BLACK+DECKER®, CRAFTSMAN®, STANLEY®, CUB CADET®, and HUSTLER®.** **The Job:** **The S&OP Lead/Manager is responsible for leading and driving a collaborative and efficient IBP monthly process to align a consensus forecast with Sales, Marketing and Finance. He/she is also responsible for managing any overlays to the baseline volume driven by new product introductions, promotions, price increases and any other commercial activity that may affect demand.** **Responsible for the end-to-end cross-functional business planning to ensure that commercial and operational strategies are aligned to support the successful execution of SBD business objectives. Responsible for managing and leading teams focused on portfolio optimization. It is also accountable with the market for the forecast accuracy and bias performance to achieve agreed upon targets.** **Facilitate IBP meetings (process steps) with cross functional leaders.** **Set targeted, high impact agenda, and compile inputs from stakeholders across the business.** **Ensure Activity Grid (building blocks) delivery and follow up with Commercial Teams to the Demand Planning process to guarantee quality plans are received.** **Facilitate Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) process bi-weekly meetings for quicker decision making in the short term.** **Ensure that all relevant financial elements of the demand plan (GS, NSV, SGM) are properly identified, discussed and agreed, guaranteeing a single volume-value conversation.** **Challenge activity plans, volume assumptions based on historical trends, robust analytics and business market knowledge where necessary to drive an unbiased forecast.** **Document forecast main assumptions for volume/value construction in Demand Review Meeting.** **Generate demand walk variances compared to last month’s S&OP (ideally by SBU and Channel)** **Lead demand and supply integration.** **Conduct root cause analysis along with commercial teams to identify drivers of forecast error and work to take the necessary corrective action to drive continuous improvement in forecast accuracy and bias performance.** **Ensure scenario planning for significant events in the market (customer activities, economic conditions, etc.).** **The Person:** **You love to learn and grow and be acknowledged for your valuable contributions. You’re not intimidated by innovation. Wouldn’t it be great if you could do your job and do a world of good? In fact, you embrace it. You also have** **End to end business comprehension.** **Good knowledge, management and coordination of IBP/S&OP process.** **Excellent analytical, organizational and decision-making skills.** **Good business commercial acumen and financial knowledge.** **Strong influencing and stakeholder engagement skills.** **Ability to challenge senior stakeholders and manage tension in IBP conversations.** **Exceptional communication skills.** **Detailed understanding of end-to-end supply chain operational processes: IBP/S&OP, DRP, MPS, inventory optimization, logistics and customer service.** **Proficient in MS applications e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint.** **Previous experience working with Planning ERPs.** **+5 years in Supply Chain planning experience (Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Production Planning), including significant experience managing IBP/S&OP process.** **Prior experience leading and embedding IBP/S&OP best practice ways of working** **High degree of quantitative and analytical skills.** **The Details:** **You’ll receive a competitive salary and a great benefits plan.** \#LI-JT1 \#LI-Hybrid **_We Don’t Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too._** Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 58,000 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you’ll get the unique chance to impact some of the world’s most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights. **Who We Are** We’re the World’s largest tool company. We’re industry visionaries. We’re solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art “smart factory” products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company. **Global Benefits & Perks** You’ll be rewarded with a competitive salary plus receive entitlements and benefits unique to your country of hire. **What You’ll Also Get** Career Opportunity: Career paths aren’t linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths. **Learning & Development:** Our lifelong learning philosophy means you’ll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities). **Diverse & Inclusive Culture:** We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too. **Purpose-Driven Company:** You’ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.