Director of Business Planning
Position Information
Company Samsung Telecommunications America (STA)
Location Dallas, Texas
Position
Summary The Director of Business Planning's main responsibilities will be to lead demand management and SCM/CPFR activities across STA.
Common Essential
Duties & Resp. • Lead weekly SCM/PSI meetings with multiple carrier account teams
o Completely understand market conditions, including inventory, sell-thru, completion, promotion plans, etc.
o Be the focal point and expert for demand related questions and insight
o Work with account teams to manage weekly demand forecasts and production requests
• Develop weekly operations summaries and status reports
• Set vision and direction for demand management across STA
• Manage CPFR/SCM processes and systems group
o Ensure STA is top-rated subsidiary in internal Samsung metrics
o Establish vision and direction for carrier CPFR activities
o Create system/process infrastructure for effective SCM/CPFR activities
o Ensure supply chain logic effectively supports STA sales activities
• Manage US Market Intelligence and Forecasting group
o Monthly and quarterly reporting on market sell-thru, competition, and segmentation
o STA’s primary interface for 3P industry analysts
o Market/carrier forecasting
• Manage Business Planning group
o Quarterly business planning and reporting
o Price/positioning meeting
o STA profitability
o CDE management
• Ensure STA meets internal metrics such as aged inventory, overall inventory levels, etc.
• Ensure STA meets quarterly volume objectives, work with all STA functional organizations in order to meet goals
• Implement HQ SCM/CPFR requests across STA
• Coordinate supply signals with counterpart in Business Planning organization
• Develop/present executive level presentations
• Work with Sales organization and carrier account teams to set quarterly volume objectives
Background /
Experience 10+ years of related industry experience, including supply chain
MBA Preferred.
Necessary Skills
/ Attributes • highly motivated and self-driven
• very detailed, goal driven, and achievement oriented
• comfortable with assuming responsibility for performance of STA
• able to critically evaluate and question data
• able to think quickly
• comfortable with a highly dynamic and changing work environment
• an expert in US handset market
• competitive, strong desire to “win”