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Job Description:
Role Overview:
The S&OP; COE Analyst is a critical role within the Planning Center of Excellence, responsible for elevating the company’s Sales & Operations Planning capabilities across a complex, multi-vendor technology portfolio.
Operating in a high-SKU, fast-moving distribution workplace, this role blends statistical planning, inventory optimization, and category performance analytics with structured S&OP; process governance. The analyst ensures demand, supply, inventory, and financial plans are fully integrated — enabling improved service levels, working capital efficiency, and executive decision-making.
This position supports a global business managing thousands of SKUs across multiple OEM partners, lifecycle stages, and regional markets.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Enterprise S&OP; Governance:
- Support global standardization of the monthly S&OP; cycle across regions and business units
- Ensure alignment between Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Category Management, Finance,



and Sales
- Drive meeting readiness, executive reporting, and structured decision support
- Maintain KPI governance including forecast accuracy, bias, service level, inventory turns, and working capital
- Identify process gaps and lead continuous improvement initiatives to mature S&OP; toward Integrated Business Planning (IBP)

2. Statistical Forecasting & Demand Segmentation:
- Develop and enhance statistical baseline forecasting models across high-SKU portfolios
- Segment SKUs by demand pattern (smooth, intermittent, erratic, lifecycle) to apply differentiated planning strategies
- Partner with Demand Planning to improve forecast accuracy at SKU, vendor, and category levels
- Conduct forecast error and bias root cause analysis
- Automate performance dashboards and exception reporting
- Support parameter optimization and model tuning in planning systems

3. Inventory Optimization & Working Capital

📌 S&OP Manager (Mumbai)
🏢 Ingram Micro
📍 Mumbai