Sr. Manager - Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning

Woodward is committed to creating a great workplace for all team members. Our company and its members are committed to acting with integrity, being respectful and accountable to one another, and staying humble and driven, while maintaining the highest professional and ethical standards.

We are steadfastly committed to attracting the best talent across our communities, creating a rewarding workplace. Together we are fulfilling our purpose to design and deliver energy control solutions our partners count on to power a clean future.
** Woodward supports our members’ wellbeing and regularly benchmarks with other companies in our industry to offer an extensive Total Reward package for this position.
** Salary will be determined by the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
** Sr. Manager - Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning
** Estimated annual base pay: $133,000 (minimum) - $166,000 (midpoint) - $200,000(maximum)
* All members included in annual cash bonus opportunity.  + 401(k) match (4.5%)  + Annual Woodward stock contribution (5%)  + Tuition reimbursement and Training/Professional Development opportunities for all members
* 12 paid holidays, including floating holidays.
* Industry leading medical, dental, and vision Insurance upon date of hir
* Vacation / Sick Time / Vacation Buy-up / Short Term Disability / Bereavement leave.
* Paid parental leave.
* Adoption Assistance
* Employee Assistance Program, including mental health benefits.
* Member Life & AD&D / Long Term Disability / Member Optional Life
* Member referral bonus
* Spouse / Child Optional Life / Optional AD&D / Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending
* Voluntary benefits, including:
* Home / Auto Insurance discounts
* Whole Life Insurance / Critical Illness Insurance / Legal Assistance / Military Leave The Senior Manager, SIOP, is responsible for leading the development and execution of the Sales and Operations Planning process to ensure alignment between supply, demand, operations and company objectives. This role collaborates across multiple departments, including sales, product management, operations, finance, and supply chain, to create accurate forecasts, optimize inventory levels, and improve overall operational efficiency.

The position requires strong leadership, analytical, and communication skills to drive results and support strategic decision-making.
** What You Will Be Doing**:
* Lead the design, development, and implementation of the SIOP process across the business unit(s).
* Responsible for alignment and agreement with consensus demand plan, supply commitment and financial plan.
* Responsible for overall IBP process – execute, sustain and continually improve with cross-functional stakeholders within and external to supply chain
* Lead the monthly Executive S&OP meeting, ensuring proper escalation of topics as needed, presenting scenario analyses with proposals, driving decisions, and driving actions/decisions to completion
* Key liaison between Supply Chain Planning team and the IBP transformation team, and will be an integral part of the S4 Hanna (SAP) implementation program
* As a component of the SIOP process, participates in other strategic meetings to ensure integration and synchronization of sales, marketing, R&D efforts with Supply Chain and Financial plans/activities
* Drive consensus between cross-functional groups and leaders
* Ensure alignment and cascade of information, decision and actions; responsible for driving completion of identified actions with responsible stakeholder
* Support Planning organization in what-if scenario analysis
* Validate and sign-off on scenario analysis and provide sufficient detail on cost / service / inventory tradeoffs behind each IBP decision; drive detailed and rigorous analysis to support decisions
* May manage short-term projects or detailed analyses (including the coordination of cross-functional teams) in support of IBP process and SAP implementation
* Participates and supports developing and materializing the company’s supply chain strategy
* Ability to create individualized development plans…