S&OP Strategy Architect: Elevate Cross-Functional Planning

Maker's Pride; Carol Stream (IL); On-site; USD 125,000 - 187,000; Full time

Job summary

Maker's Pride is seeking a Senior Manager S&OP Strategy to lead governance, cadence, and continuous improvement of the company’s S&OP process. You will partner across Supply Chain, Operations, Commercial, Finance, and Customer teams to turn planning inputs into clear risks, tradeoffs, actions, and leadership decisions.

This role does not own day-to-day demand, supply, capacity, or production planning. Instead, it ensures the S&OP process is structured, decision-focused, and connected to business

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field is required.
• 7+ years of progressive supply chain, S&OP, or operations experience.
• Proven experience leading or supporting S&OP processes, governance, or cross-functional planning routines.
• Experience across Demand, Supply, Finance, and Commercial functions in a matrixed environment.
• Experience driving process design, standardization, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Experience preparing executive-level materials and facilitating senior leadership discussions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the overall design and continuous improvement of the S&OP process, including meeting cadence, governance, decision rights, standard work, and escalation routines.
• Own the S&OP calendar, meeting structure, pre-read requirements, executive agenda, and action tracking for key S&OP forums.
• Coordinate inputs from Demand Planning, Collaborative Planning, Supply Planning, Capacity Planning, Finance, Commercial, Operations, and Customer teams to support integrated business decisions.
• Translate planning outputs into clear insights, risks, tradeoffs, and recommended decisions for the VP of Supply Chain and cross-functional leadership.
• Develop and maintain S&OP performance scorecards, including service, forecast accuracy, forecast bias, supply attainment, inventory, working capital, capacity utilization, and action closure.
• Partner with Finance to connect S&OP outputs to AOP, latest estimate, margin, EBITDA, and working capital impacts.
• Support scenario planning and tradeoff analysis for major business decisions, including demand changes, capacity constraints, customer prioritization, inventory policy, and network impacts.
• Identify recurring gaps in planning inputs, decision quality, escalation discipline, and cross-functional alignment; work with functional owners to improve the process.
• Maintain S&OP playbooks, templates, standard work, and maturity roadmap across platforms and sites.
• Ensure S&OP forums stay focused on enterprise-level decisions, risks, tradeoffs, and escalations rather than routine planning updates.

Skills

S&OP knowledge

Financial acumen

Data synthesis

Facilitation

Executive communication

Problem solving

Prioritization

Cross-functional collaboration

Data tools

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Finance, Operations, or a related field

Job description

Maker's Pride is seeking a Senior Manager S&OP Strategy to lead governance, cadence, and continuous improvement of the company’s S&OP process. You will partner across Supply Chain, Operations, Commercial, Finance, and Customer teams to turn planning inputs into clear risks, tradeoffs, actions, and leadership decisions.

This role does not own day-to-day demand, supply, capacity, or production planning. Instead, it ensures the S&OP process is structured, decision-focused, and connected to business