Logistics and Supply Chain Manager

Join us at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin): Where purpose comes to life.

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose ‘to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you?

At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The places we live in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments!

We are currently looking for a Manager BU Andean S&OP Consolidation B&I to join us at Andean. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

Main Purpose (Briefly state the job’s overall objective)

To lead the development and execution of the BU S&OP Process in line with Global strategy and S&OP ambitions.

Role focus is to transform demand, supply and inventory plans into sustainable S&OP processes and execution on a monthly basis. In this role you are required to be able to overseeing the monthly S&OP process and ensuring that every month a well-balanced review including scenario and risk/opportunities analysis is being created to drive decision making. This means you need to be able to drive transparency on how our demand and supply is balanced by BU, thereby being in control and anticipating on long term events vs. ad hoc changes. Next to that you are required to give a monthly update on your BU S&OP KPIs and share BU updates in the Executive S&OP.

To be successful in the role you must not only be an expert in S&OP process but very analytically minded and excellent in communicating concepts and information in a way that enables others to easily understand and effectively support the further development and execution. Hence you have an important connector role within the S&OP process and the BUs.

Dimensions of Job (i.e. Sales Turnover; dept. operating budget; material and/or labor costs; value added; sales responsibility)

To support S&OP development in line with defined strategy and goals (road map, tools, processes, and materials)
To support strong S&OP execution, hence balancing and risk mitigation per BU
Team player as we work in a matrix organization. Key stakeholders are BU SC, BU VP, BU Finance and MPL teams (Supply planning, excellence, mfg. directors)
Facilitator role steering various elements of the BU S&OP process.
Engage with S&OE lead, demand manager and supply planning managers to ensure we have and E2E process and drive improvements during process.

Scope of the Job (Regional, Global, Local).

BU focus with regional and global stakeholders

Complexity of the Job (i.e. The occupant manages vendors from different geographical regions with various financial and legal conditions, level and impact of decisions the occupant needs to make.)

The role covers collaboration with internal stakeholders across full of BU and is therefore complex in itself next to supporting BU demand mgt. Establish scenarios to ensure objective and fact-based decision making and risk management on the 0-18 months horizon (orchestrate needed input and quality).
The role requires strong communication and collaboration skills across E2E organization (Finance, Sales, Marketing, Product Development, Manufacturing and Supply Chain) from Specialist to VP level.
Supporting all aspects of the S&OP Process using Global frameworks as well as Global / Local best practice to drive needed development in monthly process execution.
As this role also is required to work with external parties the S&OP process should not only look within B&I but also involve external stakeholders.

Organizational chart (reports relationship)

Main responsibilities:
Play a key role in the S&OP Process driving continuous improvement in line with Strategy and goals (tools, processes, and materials) Lead creation of demand, supply and inventory planning and lead monthly BU S&OP meetings Consolidate S&OP findings and report into Executive commmittee Build, maintain and develop relationships with all major stakeholders and input providers. Facilitator role and hence drive strong forum behavior and execution of purpose and mandate. Ensure clear decision making and deployment. Engage with S&OE lead, BU SC, demand manager and supply planning managers to ensure we have and E2E process and drive improvements during process. Ensure proper information management to at all times have your most important stakeholders be held informed and in case required request for decision making. Strong demand mgt and forecasting responsibilities including focus on inventory mgt.
Internal and external relationships
Describe the internal relations required by the position (functional areas)
This is a role with demanding a High-Level collaboration with several function and stakeholders to collaborate with within and outside BU
Who?	What for?
BU Commercial	To understand our market and business. Collaborate and ensure robust assumption driven input from the Commercial side of the business linked to scenario planning.
BU VP	Be close to BU VP in sharing frequent updates on S&OP related topics (Demand, Supply and Inventory)
Supply Planners & Manufacturing (MPL)	Collaborate and ensure robust assumption driven input linked to scenario planning (e.g. capacity expansion).
Strategic Procurement	Collaborate and ensure robust assumption driven input linked to scenario planning.
Finance	Build solid understanding of the Finance area and processes. Collaborate and onboard Finance into Financial Reconciliation process and ensure robust assessment of scenarios including financial impact of decisions.
Logistics management	Collaborate and ensure robust assumption driven input linked to scenario planning (e.g. pallet positions and truck capacities).
Demand management	Collaborate and ensure robust assumption driven input linked to scenario planning.
Global S&OP Consolidation	Engage actively in cross collaboration to support further development of the Wavin IBP process. Explore best practice from other regions/OCs and share own learnings and input.
Describe the external relations required by the position (customers, providers, associations)
Who?	What for?
NA	NA
Education
Minimum: Bachelor’s degree
Desirable: Degree in relevant business discipline ie: supply chain, finance, engineering
Knowledge required (To perform satisfactorily in this job what types of experience is required?)
Good communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills. Analytical and problem solving skills Team builder, ability to interact cross functional within the BU to drive IBP cycle and drive decisions Experience on S&OP / IBP process as well as on end to end supply chain Tactical & Operational planning skills Ability to prioritize, manage complexity and be able to escalate issues when needed Experience on APO or other advanced planning tool (IBP, SAC, etc)
Languages required
Language: Native language	Level of proficiency: Native
Language: English	Level of proficiency: Advanced

What Orbia Building & Infrastructure offers

Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin)! Here we take responsibility for each other and our company. We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world. Above all we encourage all our employees to develop their talents and to become the best version of themselves. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day. Orbia B&I is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

Organization

Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens. Whether it’s to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Orbia B&I collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers, contractors, and installers to help future-proof communities, buildings and homes. Orbia B&I has 11,000+ employees and 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network. Our key commercial brands are: Wavin, Amanco Wavin, Pavco Wavin, Plastigama Wavin, and Bow Wavin.

Orbia Building & Infrastructure is part of Orbia – a company driven by a shared purpose: to advance life around the world. Orbia operates in several sectors including: Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluor and Energy Materials (Koura). These five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions. Orbia has a global team of over 24,000 employees, commercial activities in more than 100 countries and operations in over 50, with headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. The company generated $8.2 billion in revenue in 2023.

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Time Zone: Pacific Standard Time

Business Unit: BU S&OP Consolidation (BU_B&I_141)

Functional Area: FA Supply Chain (FA_SCH_01)