Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning Coordinator (SIOP)
Website: IRISS.com | YouTube: IRISS
Department: Operations and Business Planning
Role Summary
IRISS is seeking an experienced SIOP Coordinator to support our Operations and Business Planning activities in Bradenton, Florida.
The SIOP Coordinator builds and coordinates the Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning (SIOP) process at IRISS. The role brings Sales, Operations, Supply Chain, and Finance together to develop a rolling demand and supply outlook, assess financial implications, and present decisions for CEO and executive review.
This individual contributor owns the SIOP calendar, meeting preparation and facilitation, consolidated planning information, action tracking, and decision records. The coordinator ensures that forecasts, capacity constraints, recovery options, and financial impacts are visible, consistently documented, and followed through by accountable business owners.
Primary Responsibilities
SIOP Process Development and Governance
- Develop the SIOP playbook, including scope, roles, required inputs, planning calendars, data definitions, review templates, escalation rules, and decision authority.
- Run a four-week cycle of weekly reviews: Week 1 Demand Planning; Week 2 Supply Planning; Week 3 Financial Reconciliation; and Week 4 Executive Review with the CEO.
- Coordinate pre-reads, attendance, data readiness, meeting outputs, and follow-up. Maintain one controlled planning baseline with version history, assumptions, actions, and approved decisions.
- Track actions between meetings and elevate material demand, supply, and financial changes that require decisions before the next cycle.
Demand Planning with Sales
- Conduct demand reviews with Sales to understand customer forecasts and requirements over the next 3, 6, and 12 months, using weekly detail near term and monthly detail further out as appropriate.
- Consolidate demand by customer, product family, quantity, and expected shipment period. Reconcile booked orders, backlog, forecast, and sales opportunities to avoid double counting and identify assumptions.
- Work with Sales and Operations to define and document the firm window and planning windows, permitted quantity and timing variations, and the approval process for changes.
- Compare the latest forecast with the prior approved plan and actual demand; explain changes in volume, mix, timing, forecast accuracy, and bias, and identify upside and downside risks.
- Document the agreed demand outlook and unresolved assumptions for supply review. Keep unconstrained customer demand visible alongside the achievable supply plan.
Supply Planning with Operations and Supply Chain
- Build a supply plan with Operations and Supply Chain against the 3-, 6-, and 12-month demand outlook, assessing manpower, materials, machinery, and required lead times.
- Assess staffing and skills by shift, supplier commitments and material availability, and demonstrated machine and process capacity using inputs from the responsible functions.
- Maintain a constraint register showing the gap, affected demand and delivery dates, root cause, required action, owner, completion date, and expected capacity or supply recovery.
- Compare feasible options such as overtime, hiring, training, alternate supply, outsourcing, shift changes, process improvements, and capital investment; quantify timing, cost, and residual risks.
- Confirm the achievable supply plan and identify decisions needed to close remaining gaps. Track whether actions deliver the expected recovery and update the outlook when assumptions change.
Financial Reconciliation with Finance
- Conduct a financial reconciliation review with Finance to translate demand and supply scenarios into revenue, inventory, operating cost, margin, working capital, and cash implications.
- Separate forecast demand from expected shipments and revenue; use Finance-approved pricing, product mix, cost assumptions, and recognition treatment when evaluating financial outcomes.
- Compare the proposed plan with budget and the prior approved outlook. Explain changes from volume, mix, delivery timing, inventory, staffing, overtime, premium freight, outsourcing, and capital requirements.
- Validate the financial impact and expected benefit of constraint actions with Finance and functional owners; present trade-offs, funding requirements, and unresolved gaps for executive decision.
CEO and Executive Review
- Prepare and facilitate the final executive review with the CEO, presenting the reconciled demand, achievable supply, financial outlook, and changes from the prior plan.
- Provide a concise decision pack showing key constraints, customer and revenue exposure, options, recommendations, costs, benefits, required approvals, and consequences of delayed action.
- Record executive decisions, approved priorities, plan changes, action owners, and due dates; communicate the approved baseline to the responsible functions.
- Follow up on executive actions and report progress and exceptions in the next cycle; maintain visibility of unresolved risks and decisions.
Qualifications and Core Competencies
- Degree in supply chain, operations, business, finance, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent education and relevant experience.
- Typically, 5 or more years in SIOP or S&OP, demand planning, supply planning, or manufacturing business planning; experience building planning routines is preferred.
- Practical understanding of forecasting, production capacity, materials planning, inventory, and the financial effects of operational decisions.
- Strong Excel, ERP, data consolidation, scenario analysis, and presentation skills. Rootstock, NetSuite, or Power BI experience and APICS certification are preferred.
- Confident meeting facilitation, analytical judgment, communication with senior leaders, and disciplined follow-through; ability to influence across functions without direct authority.
Initial Performance Goals
During the first 90 to 180 days, the SIOP Coordinator will:
- Establish the SIOP playbook, weekly review calendar, input owners, standard templates, and escalation process.
- Build a rolling 3-, 6-, and 12-month demand and supply baseline, with agreed firm and planning window rules.
- Implement a consolidated constraint and action register linking recovery plans to capacity, delivery, and financial outcomes.
- Complete initial financial and executive reviews; maintain approved decisions, track action delivery, and agree process improvement targets with leadership.
Measures of Success
Process Execution:
Reviews completed on schedule; timely and complete inputs and pre-reads; clear outputs and decision records.
Demand Visibility:
Forecast coverage across 3, 6, and 12 months; accuracy and bias visibility; explained changes and window exceptions.
Supply Readiness:
Manpower, material, and machinery gaps identified early; credible supply commitments and recovery options.
Action Effectiveness:
On-time action closure; verified capacity or supply recovery; timely escalation of unresolved constraints.
Financial Alignment:
Finance-validated scenario impacts; explained revenue, inventory, and cost variances; clear investment requirements.
Business Outcomes:
Improved delivery, backlog, inventory, and cost performance, shared with accountable functional owners.
Accountability
This is an individual contributor role with no direct reports. The coordinator owns SIOP process administration, facilitation, consolidation, and follow-through. Sales owns demand inputs; Operations and Supply Chain own supply commitments and recovery execution; Finance validates financial assumptions; the CEO and authorized leaders approve business trade-offs and investments.