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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, quick-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:
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)
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
Inventory Optimization & Working Capital

📌 S&op Manager Mumbai
🏢 Ingram Micro
📍 Mumbai