Director, Sales and Operations Planning

JOB SUMMARY

CORE JOB DUTIES

• Challenges and inspires all stakeholders to achieve business results
• Monitors sales and operational benchmark variances and takes appropriate actions to close gaps and understand opportunities
• Works with Business Intelligence team and others to create tools, processes and analytics to enhance the S&OP process
• Orchestrate S&OP meetings with all levels of the business to ensure strategic alignment and transparency to risks and opportunities
• Develop a playbook for S&OP to achieve best in class results
• Collaborate with commercial team to shape demand to operational constraints. Help build "core item" structure to focus on the best strategy to grow the business
• Work with Cultivation and Operational teams to shape operational plans to meet commercial expectations and reasonable safety stocks to cover upside expectations. Learn operational constraints that affect current and future planning
• Create item level inventory targets for facility Master Schedulers to adhere to. Have regular communication with the facility to understand gaps and opportunities to the near-term schedule that will affect the strategic goals of the company
• Use the S&OP process to supplement and improve on the budget setting process.
• Oversee inventory planning: optimize cultivation planning, production planning and commercial planning to ensure optimal stock levels while still minimizing obsolete risk.
• Develop contingency plans to ensure the business is still aligned to the consensus strategy

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE, EDUCATION AND SKILLS

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Statistics, Mathematics, Supply Chain, Finance, Agriculture, or related field preferred
• 5+ years of relevant experience in sales and operations planning within a manufacturing environment, including production planning and scheduling, replenishment planning, demand planning, materials management, commercial planning required. Able to understand how all areas of planning link together
• Experience with using supply planning software, both operationally and understanding the concepts behind the tool. Able to help build off of internal tools with minimal external tools.
• Strong analytical skills with intermediate to advanced excel skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. Capable of presenting data metrics and financial information in an easy-to-understand format and the executive presence to present to leadership.
• Ability to multi-task and meet critical deadlines

BENEFITS

Cresco Labs is one of the largest public, vertically integrated, multistate operators in the cannabis industry. Our portfolio of in-house cultivated and manufactured brands features some of the highest quality, most awarded and most popular cannabis products in America. With dozens of locations nationwide, our owned and operated Sunnyside® dispensaries provide a welcoming, positive, judgement-free place to shop for anyone at any point on their cannabis journey. Founded in 2013, Cresco Labs’ mission is to normalize and professionalize cannabis through our passionate employees. As stewards of the cannabis industry, our teams are constantly focused on supporting the needs of our fellow colleagues, consumers, customers, and communities alike. With a focus on Social Equity and Educational Development, our SEED initiative ensures that our company reflects the communities in which we serve, ensuring equal opportunity for all in cannabis. At Cresco Labs, we aim to revolutionize and lead the nation’s cannabis industry with a focus on quality and consistency of product, and to bring legitimacy to the industry with the highest level of integrity and professionalism.