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Gates Corporation

Senior S&OP Manager, APAC

10-12 Years
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Job Description

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

  • Own and drive a disciplined, region-wide Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process, ensuring alignment across demand, supply, inventory, and capacity planning.
  • Identify, prioritize, and lead continuous improvement initiatives across forecasting accuracy, production scheduling, inventory optimization, and supplier supply planning.
  • Lead the exceptions management process, proactively identifying risks, gaps, and constraints, and enabling timely, fact-based trade-off decisions with key stakeholders.
  • Structure, facilitate, and lead regional S&OP governance and review meetings, ensuring strong process discipline, accountability, and compliance.
  • Establish, monitor and track key operational performance indicators (KPIs) including inventory health, service levels, forecast accuracy, and supply reliability.
  • Drive actions to identify, reduce, and eliminate excess and obsolete (E&O) inventory, improving working capital efficiency.
  • Champion and model Gates core values, continuous improvement mindset, and operational excellence culture across the region.

Keys to Success

  • Requires a comprehensive understanding of internal and industry standards and principles

Supervisory Responsibilities

Lead S&OP Team

Requirements And Preferred Skills

  • Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, or related discipline, with a minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in operations, engineering, or supply chain leadership, including direct ownership of S&OP.
  • Master's degree preferred.
  • Experience in automotive or complex manufacturing systems is highly desirable.
  • Strong hands-on experience in Lean Manufacturing, continuous improvement, and operational excellence methodologies.
  • Demonstrated project and program management expertise, including cross-functional coordination, communication, execution, governance, and post-implementation review.
  • Deep knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, statistical analysis, and structured problem-solving methodologies.
  • Strong analytical and systems-thinking capabilities, with the ability to translate data into actionable business decisions.
  • Highly results-oriented, with a track record of driving measurable business improvements and scalable process solutions.
  • Proven ability to influence, coach, and align stakeholders across multiple organizational levels, functions, and geographies.
  • Excellent executive-level communication, presentation, and facilitation skills, both verbal and written.
  • Strong change leadership skills with the ability to drive adoption of new processes, systems, and behaviors.

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