Senior Manager, Demand & Supply Planning

Gaming:

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Position Summary

Position Summary:

The Senior Manager, Demand & Supply Planning will be responsible for the implementation and oversight of core global planning processes in the ANZ (Australia New Zealand) and Asia regions; including demand and supply forecasting, inventory planning, scenario planning as well as the analysis and reporting of key metrics. This role will create and maintain analytical forecast models, incorporating business intelligence and forecast information gathered from sales, product management, finance, operations, and other sources. This individual will aggregate the demand and supply requirements for products across all phases of the life cycle, to include New Product Introduction (NPI) and End-of-Sale (EOS) / End-of-Life (EOL). She/He will be responsible for leading regional S&OP processes and participating in the global reconciliation and alignment processes.

As the business continues to evolve and grow, she/he will be responsible for developing tools and capabilities that support Light & Wonder’s strategic imperatives and transformation objectives that drive forecast accuracy as well as profitability and efficient cash flow.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Serve as the leader and functional owner of the development and refinement of short, medium and long-term demand and supply forecasts for the production of Electronic Gaming Machines (EGM), Tables, Utilities, and Electronic Table Games (TUETG), and Systems lines of business.
• Provide forward-looking service forecasts to meet contractual maintenance requirements.
• Develop, implement, and maintain an effective planning process that aligns with the existing Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) and Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) programs.
• Identify and communicate constraints that may impact the achievement of the business demand.
• Develops an inventory policy based on risks and opportunities and align with achievement of global inventory turns target.
• Utilize a collaborative and consensus approach with key business partners and stakeholders.
• Prepare and maintain relevant reports.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent management experience.

• 5-7 years of supply chain, forecasting, or planning experience.
• Integrated Business Planning (IBP), S&OP training
• Must be able to travel – up to one trip per quarter to international locations

Preferred Traits, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to collaborate with sales, finance, product management, and global supply chain partners.
• Experience in new product introduction, scenario planning, and end-of-life management.
• Knowledge of ERP systems and building/developing reports.
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills as well as the ability to manage large data sets.
• Operate with a high degree of connectedness, transparency, and clarity to ensure common understanding of requirements, issues, and actions; listen to stakeholders and distill information into pertinent and actionable content.
• Ability to adapt to the pace and dynamic nature of the business; process data, information and feedback with speed and communicate outcomes, alternatives and actions plans with appropriate urgency.
• Ability to maintain a strategic view while operating at a level of fine detail; correlate portfolio priorities and strategy to daily operations and decision making within the supply chain environment.

Physical Requirements:

• This position operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Work Conditions:

• The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Light & Wonder Corporation and its affiliates (collectively, “L&W”) are engaged in highly regulated gaming and lottery businesses. As a result, certain L&W employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts. In order to ensure L&W complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, L&W requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles. As a prerequisite to employment with L&W (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to L&W conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you.

This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above.

L&W is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, or on the basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. If you’d like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law, please click here: EEOC Poster.

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