Sales Inventory and Operations Planning Coordinator

AAF International offers the most comprehensive clean air solutions available across the globe. Selling under the American Air Filter and the AAF International brand names, AAF International has been an industry pioneer since 1921 and has grown to operations in over 22 countries with over 3000 employees. Our products are the industry benchmarks for quality and performance and deliver clean air solutions in residential, commercial, and industrial air pollution control, gas containment removal, power generation, and other stringent clean room environments.

We are a member of the Daikin Group, the world's largest air conditioning and clean air solutions provider with over $15 Billion in sales and 56,000 employees worldwide. Founded in 1924, Daikin has grown into a diversified industrial manufacturing company offering solutions in clean air, air conditioning, refrigeration, chemicals, oil hydraulics, defense systems, and electronics. AAF and Daikin are powered by our investment in people, products, and our processes.

Our culture of continuous improvement, safety, and world-class operations is powered by our people-centered management philosophy. This philosophy is built around mutual selection: while AAF seeks top-talent people to join and deliver on our team, we also want each team member to receive job satisfaction, growth & development, and continued happiness in being a long-term member of the AAF family. This is fueled by our belief in treating our people, our supply partners, our customers, and our environment with the trust and respect we each require and our passion to give back to our community for our success.

AAF International is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Disability/Veteran.

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, veteran status, uniform servicemember status, age, disability or any other legally recognized protected personal characteristics.

Position Objective:

The Branch SI&OP, is responsible for supporting the branch network to coordinate the logistics, inventory and operations planning of products. Works along with Regional Branch Managers to forecast levels of inventory and to create logistics plans to minimize freight costs. Support improvements in service and inventory management

Primary Responsibilities

• Manages USA Branch Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SIOP) activities for branch network in parallel with Corporate SIOP team's monthly calendar, communicates key priorities, and facilitates the best use of inventory in branches and an overall logistics plan to minimize freight costs.
• Provides analysis and recommendations to senior leadership team on sales forecast and demand planning, while driving process improvements to enable profitable growth.
• Ensures product forecasting meets sales demand, including purchase order management for timely inventory shipment and customer fulfillment.
• Works closely with regional and segment sales leaders on S&OP processes to ensure adequate sales pipeline interpretation and communication each month.
• Manages branch product distribution schedules to mitigate partial shipments and minimize LTL freight shipments- by looking at the entire branch network and organizing purchase RFQs accordingly
• Creates and maintains Branch-wide SIOP dashboard highlighting KPIs relating to demand/forecast accuracy, inventory levels / inventory turns, working capital, and other metrics determined by manager or Senior Leadership.
• Analyzes and discusses alternatives with multiple stakeholders; branch management, plant management, and freight carriers.
• Anticipates special issues and considerations for effective decision-making during a crisis and urgent customer need situations.
• Fosters strong internal customer relationships via delivery on commitments, open communication, and on-going feedback/improvement.
• Advises others on creating customer focused environments in various scenarios.
• Anticipates customer needs, focusing efforts to proactively meet needs and exceed customer expectations.
• Measures and observes customer satisfaction levels to ascertain and implement service improvement alternatives.
• Communicates and models the criticality of customer focus as an organizational strategy.
• Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
• Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
• Demonstrates empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.
• Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.
• Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.
• Builds rapport, understanding, and trust with Senior leadership through ongoing dialogue and delivering results. Continuously seeks feedback on the process, meeting effectiveness, metrics, and subsequent activities to identify issues to resolve.
• Due to the nature of this role, overnight domestic travel up to 25% is expected for collaboration across branch and manufacturing locations
• Other duties assigned.

• Minimum of 5 years of related experience
• Knowledge of successful negotiation concepts and techniques; ability to negotiate successfully across the organization and with external vendors and clients in a constructive and collaborative manner
• Experience in warehouse operations activities
• Proficiency with warehouse procedures and policies
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel is critical for the success of this role including data analysis, pivot tables, data cleansing / validation, and modeling for trends and/or changes over multiple periods of time.
• Strong proficiency in the ERP system of record for the Branch network which is SAP. The successful candidate must understand general SAP transactions for purchase order review, open orders, inventory on-hand, and demand management.
• This role will login daily in AAF's demand management software NETSTOCK for input and review of forecasts.
• This role will access reporting and data from Qlik View.
• Excellent communication skills (oral and written).
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills.
• Industrial Safety
• Excellent problem-solving skills and leadership qualities
• Ability to work collaboratively with all levels of company staff
• Ability to deliver effective feedback, both written and verbal
• Demonstrated leadership, influence and communication skills
• Must have strong interpersonal skills, maturity and good judgment and be capable of communicating with a diverse range of individuals
• Excellent, proven interpersonal, verbal / written communications and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to multi - task and work in a fast - paced setting.
• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Safety glasses are required at all times to protect against dust and particles.
• Protective clothing must be worn at all times to protect against injury which may include cut resistant gloves, sleeves, aprons and gowns.
• Closed toe shoes and long pants are required. Sleeveless shirts are prohibited in the warehouse and production areas.
• Must be able to work in a manufacturing environment with exposure to noise, fumes, dust particles, and temperature extremes.
• The physical demands 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.
• Must be able to lift up to approximately 50 pounds.
• Must be able to stand at work stations for long periods of time with periodic breaks.
• Must be able to travel throughout the facility to obtain information needed to perform job functions.