Head of S&OP

The Company is seeking a Head of S&OP to lead its end-to-end Sales and Operations Planning process across international markets and distribution locations. The role will align demand forecasts with supply execution, working closely with commercial, merchandising, buying, operations, and finance teams to account for launches and promotions. Responsibilities include setting inventory policies and safety stock levels, overseeing stock deployment and replenishment, optimizing shipment strategies, and planning warehouse and logistics capacity. The successful candidate will identify supply chain risks, provide KPI-based performance insights, improve planning processes and data quality, and build a high-performing planning function. Candidates should bring significant S&OP leadership experience, ideally in a multi-site international supply chain and a product-led consumer business. They should understand planning measures and concepts such as OTB, WSSI, stock cover, safety stock, inventory turns, forecast accuracy, service levels, and OTIF. Strong analytical skills, commercial judgment, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders are essential. Experience across wholesale and e-commerce, building planning processes in a growing business, and implementing ERP or planning systems would be advantageous.