S&OP Implementation Lead

Kevin's Natural Foods; Northern (KY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Kevin’s Natural Foods is seeking an S&OP Implementation Lead to co-design the roadmap, engage senior leaders, and guide the organization through cultural and process transformation in a hybrid role. You will modernize tools, establish governance, and drive a data-driven planning cadence across demand, supply, and finance.

Responsibilities include roadmap development, capability readiness, stakeholder alignment, governance design, and coaching teams to embed disciplined planning practices.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of progressive experience in Supply Chain, S&OP, Integrated Business Planning, or related transformation roles within food, beverage, or CPG manufacturing.
• Experience with customer-centric organizational culture and short shelf-life products strongly preferred.
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and relationship-building skills.
• Demonstrated expertise in process design, change management, and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Working knowledge of planning tools (e.g. ERP, demand planning platforms) and core S&OP analytics.
• Coaching mentality with ability to translate complexity into simple, actionable concepts.
• A collaborative, low-ego approach with the ability to influence without authority.

Responsibilities

• Co-develop and maintain the multi-year S&OP implementation roadmap, including vision, milestones, capability readiness, and change adoption strategy.
• Translate business objectives into an actionable planning model connecting demand, supply, inventory, capacity, and financial processes.
• Partner with senior leaders to establish S&OP as a shared enterprise priority and top-down cultural expectation.
• Facilitate workshops, alignment sessions, and training for S&OP roles and decision rights.
• Serve as the primary change agent and communicator for S&OP transformation.
• Evaluate current processes, planning behaviors, and cross-functional readiness.
• Build education, coaching, and support models that strengthen planning discipline and collaboration.
• Shape a culture of transparency, data fluency, and operational excellence.
• Assess existing planning tools, data quality, and reporting workflows.
• Recommend future-state tool enhancements or investments to support more advanced S&OP maturity.
• Partner with IT, Supply Chain, Finance, and Commercial teams to ensure clear, aligned requirements.
• Develop governance, roles, decision-rights, escalation paths, and KPI structures.
• Define standard meetings cadence and ensure process discipline.
• Develop change-management plans addressing communication, training, stakeholder management, and adoption.
• Build playbooks, process docs, training materials, and readiness assessments.
• Identify adoption risks and proactively remove barriers.

Skills

S&OP

Integrated planning

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Planning tools

Demand planning

Tools

ERP systems

Demand planning platforms

Job description

Kevin’s Natural Foods is growing fast! We’re looking for an S&OP Implementation Lead with the strategic vision and operational know-how to help build the next evolution of our integrated planning capability. This hybrid role will shape the future of planning at one of the fastest‑growing clean‑label food brands in the heart of San Joaquin! As our S&OP Implementation Lead, you will co‑design the roadmap for S&OP implementation, engage senior leaders to create top‑down alignment, and guide the organization through cultural and process transformation. You’ll help modernize tools and systems, establish governance, and lead the change efforts needed to embed a disciplined, data‑driven planning cadence.

What You’ll Do:

• Co‑develop and maintain the multi‑year S&OP implementation roadmap, including vision, maturity milestones, capability readiness, and an organizational change adoption strategy.

• Translate business objectives into an actionable planning model connecting demand, supply, inventory, capacity, and financial processes.

Engage Leadership & Drive Alignment

• Partner directly with senior leaders to establish S&OP as a shared enterprise priority and a top-down cultural expectation.

• Facilitate worksops, alignment sessions, and training to prepare and guide senior leaders through S&OP roles, expectations, and decision‑rights necessary for an effective operating cadence.

• Serve as the primary change agent and communicator for S&OP transformation.

Assess & Prepare the Organization

• Evaluate current processes, planning behaviors, and cross‑functional readiness.

• Build education, coaching, and support models that strengthen planning discipline and collaboration.

• Shape a culture grounded in transparency, data fluency, and the operational excellence.

• Assess existing planning tools, system capabilities, data quality, and reporting workflows.

• Recommend future-state tool enhancements or potential investments to support more advanced S&OP maturity.

• Partner with IT, Supply Chain, Finance, and Commercial teams to ensure business requirements are clear and aligned.

Develop Governance & Lead Change Adoption

• Design and launch S&OP governance frameworks, including roles, responsibilities, decision‑rights, escalation paths, and KPI structures.

• Define the standard meeting cadence (Demand Review, Supply Review, Pre‑S&OP, Executive S&OP) and ensure process discipline.

• Develop and execute change‑management plans that address communication, training, stakeholder management, and sustained adoption.

• Build playbooks, process documentation, training materials, and readiness assessments.

• Identify risks to adoption and proactively remove barriers to progress.

• Other duties as assigned or necessary.

What You’ll Need:

• 5-8 years of progressive experience in Supply Chain, S&OP, Integrated Business Planning, or related transformation roles within food, beverage, or CPG manufacturing.

• Experience with customer-centric organizational culture and short shelf-life products strongly preferred.

• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and relationship-building skills.

• Demonstrated expertise in process design, change management, and continuous improvement methodologies.

• Working knowledge of planning tools (e.g. ERP, demand planning platforms) and core S&OP analytics.

• Coaching mentality with ability to translate complexity into simple, actionable concepts.

• A collaborative, low‑ego approach with the ability to influence without authority.

Healthy, Diverse Teams Breed Innovation:

Kevin’s Natural Foods is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We deeply believe that diverse backgrounds and experiences make better teams, and we seek to attract talent from all walks of life. The team at Kevin’s is smart, humble, and passionate and we value a work environment that fosters personal development and opportunities to move within our small, but quickly growing organization.

More About Kevin’s Natural Foods:

Kevin's Natural Foods is a line of refrigerated and frozen meals, sides, soups, and sauces on a mission to empower even the busiest people to eat clean without sacrificing flavor. Co-founded by Kevin McCray who battled an auto-immune disorder for years, Kevin's Natural Foods was born from his desire to make clean eating seamlessly fit into any lifestyle. Shockingly delicious and made with clean ingredients, Kevin’s products are ready in minutes and always free from gluten, soy, and refined sugar.

In 2023, Kevin’s Natural Foods joined the Mars Food & Nutrition family, allowing us to expand our reach, accelerate innovation, and bring our mission to even more households while staying true to the quality and integrity that define our brand. A true market disruptor, Kevin's is the first clean refrigerated entrée brand working to prove every day that proper nutrition can be as delicious as it is healthy.

Salary Range: $110,000.00 - $135,000.00 annually + benefits + bonus

Compensation within this salary range is dependent upon the candidate's experience, education, and relevant qualifications

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