Sales & Operations Planning Specialist

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The opportunity:

Sales & Operations Planning Specialist plays a critical role in aligning demand and supply planning across the value chain, ensuring operational efficiency, and supporting strategic business goals.

How you’ll make an impact:

• You will coordinate demand input from Sales & Marketing, lead the Demand Review and Supply Review processes, align with Product Marketing and BU-level planning.

• You will conduct long-term customer delivery analysis (up to 3 years ahead), perform market analysis to compare demand with factory capacity over a 5-year horizon, monitor machine and workforce capacity, utilization, and recovery slots.

• You will generate financial forecasts based on S&OP outcomes, explain and minimize gaps between financial plans and budgets, collaborate with finance teams for monthly updates.

• You will translate S&OP outputs into Master Production Schedules (MPS), manage the slushy horizon (1–3 months) and balance work center capacities, ensure accurate data in SAP and master files to minimize inventory and overtime.

• You will maintain on-time delivery (OTD) by tracking milestones across departments, identify bottlenecks and develop action plans to address them, ensure meeting agendas, participant roles, and yearly calendar reservations are in place.

• You will be responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.

• Living Hitachi Energy's core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background:

• You hold a degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Industrial Management, Planning Economics or a related field.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Planning and Fulfillment, SCM or Operation management.

• Proficiency in using SAP system (or ERP) and planning software.

• Strong analytical skills to assess production capacity, inventory levels, and forecast accuracy, exceptional attention to detail to ensure the precision and accuracy of schedules.

• Excellent communication skills to engage effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

More about us:

At Hitachi Energy Vietnam, we offer a suite of employee benefits to complement our pay offering, supporting employees’ financial, physical and mental wellbeing:

• 16 days annual leave, flexible working policy.

• Benefit according to local standards: Heath-care insurance benefits to employees and their family dependents (spouse & children), annual vaccination, summer outing.

• Growth possibility: Learning and development platform, career movement opportunity within organization.

• Possibility to gain experience in international environment.

• Possibility to work for industry leader for green energy solutions.

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