Sales and Operations Planning Specialist IV

We begin with dreams. Dreams drive our motivation. Dreams are our future. The world's dreams, people's dreams, our dreams. Our passion creates ideas that make dreams come alive. Technology and products that were only dreams become reality. All for dreams. Dreams challenge and the Nidec-Group will continue to meet the challenge. For the world's and people's tomorrows; the world's first, the world's best technologies and products; we will continue our part in creating a better society.Job SummaryThe Sales and Operations Planning Lead is accountable for translating demand into an executable supply and manufacturing plan across Syracuse and Monterrey. This role ensures demand, production capacity, material availability, and procurement plans are aligned through a disciplined S&OP cadence that drives decisions, resolves constraints, and prevents past due orders. The role serves as the single point of orchestration between Demand Planning, Manufacturing, Procurement, Supply Chain, and Plant Leadership. While demand signals are well understood, this position exists to ensure the organization can deliver against that demand through capacity balancing, material readiness, and corrective action execution at each plant. Core Purpose is to ensure the right product is built, at the right plant, at the right time, with the right materials and to surface, escalate, and resolve gaps when that is not possible.Job Description SPECIFIC JOB RESPONSIBILITIES * End-to-End S&OP ownership and decision leadership * Lead the monthly S&OP process, translating demand into a constrained and executable supply plan * Facilitate crossfunctional decision making when demand exceeds capacity or material availability * Document decisions, tradeoffs, and commitments and ensure followthrough across functions * Proven ability to partner with plant leadership to validate assumptions and surface bottlenecks early * Prevent local or siloed planning by enforcing enterpriselevel priorities * Align procurement plans to the approved S&OP supply plan and demand priorities * Identify supplier and material risks and lead mitigation actions before they impact production * Ensure material constraints are visible and addressed as part of S&OP, not as reactive expedites * Own corrective actions for past due orders, schedule misses, and material shortages * Identify root causes, assign ownership, and track actions to closure * Embed learnings into future planning cycles to prevent repeat issues * Establish a consistent S&OP operating rhythm and standard planning assumptions at both plants (Syracuse and Monterrey). * Drive collaboration between manufacturing, supply chain, and procurement at the site level * Ensure both plants are executing against the same plan, priorities, and metrics * Own S&OP KPIs including past due, schedule adherence, capacity utilization, and plan vs. actual variance * Provide clear visibility to leadership on risks, gaps, and required decisions * Strengthen S&OP maturity, standardization, and discipline over time * Seasoned professional; works under limited supervision * Works independently on a wide range of moderately complex projects and may be responsible for entire projects or processes within team * May contribute to the development of goals and planning efforts for the departmentAdditional Job DetailsREQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE * Communicates with senior leadership and employees within and outside of department and/or job family on matters that require explanation, interpretation and/or advising; may communicate with external clients or partners depending upon the job area * Influences employees within the business unit to agree and align on new concepts, practices and approaches * Responsible for moderate to significant improvements of processes, procedures, or systems to contribute to the performance of the team * Problems are moderately c