Op Manager Jobs in Virginia (NOW HIRING)

Job Summary:
The Principal Omni Planner plays a key role in providing planning and supply chain operations analytics. Integrates into the business locally with key business partners to become a regional expert across the supply chain. Drives scenario planning and trend analysis and provides recommendations to senior leadership to support the company in focusing on the consumer, supporting brand growth, and achieving profitability.

Responsibilities:
Drives business results and outcomes focused on region, brand, and channel providing multi-disciplined analytics, business process changes, and recommendations for KPI improvement. Provides scenario planning and trend analysis to determine how key KPIs are tracking to goals.

Leverages and navigates needs between regional and global topics. Develops and manages financial updates for monthly and quarterly reporting deliverables.

Provides leadership in translating metrics and tools for key stakeholders across the organization. Creates dashboards to visually present metrics and key KPIs and uses storytelling to highlight key takeaways and action items across regions, brands, and channels.

Possesses a strong understanding of key Integrated Business Planning processes and data with ability to bridge and directly work with technical development teams to build long-term solutions and support strategic initiatives.

Leads cross-functional projects across the business to effectively drive change in service, cost, and inventory. Possesses a thorough understanding of the up-stream and the down-stream processes and high-level systems flow in order to determine the impact of process changes. Provides leadership in determining gaps and opportunities in the effectiveness of regional and/or global planning and operations systems and processes.

5% Performs other duties as assigned.

People Management Expectations:

Additional Requirements:
Bachelor's degree, applicable certification or equivalent experience.
Typically requires 8+ years of professional experience and mastery of relevant technical or business skills required to accomplish the job.
Superior analytical and problem solving skills
Proactive and assertive in follow-through with colleagues and business partners
Must demonstrate accuracy and thoroughness and monitoring of own work to ensure quality
Strong collaboration and influence skills
Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to write clear and concise business communication
Ability to handle highly confidential materials and information
Ability to apply experience and knowledge to provide creative solutions to problems
Ability to understand and translate moderately technical concepts verbally and in writing
Ability to prioritize tasks and respond to urgent requests/inquiries with minimal supervisory involvement
Significant experience using Microsoft Excel to create spreadsheets, charts and pivot tables; using of functions such as sumif, vlookup, and similar
Experience using Microsoft Access and Cognos including running preformatted reports and creating simple queries
Travel: Occasional - 10%
Work Schedule: Standard Hours
Career Band: Professional
Jobs on this career band have a knowledge management focus and are primarily responsible for results achieved through their own work. Requires the application of theoretical knowledge, typically gained through formal education or equivalent work experience that provides knowledge of and exposure to fundamental theories, principles and concepts of a defined profession. Jobs at higher career levels may guide small teams in their area of subject matter expertise. Jobs at the at the most senior levels of this career band set disciplinary strategy within their areas of expertise.

Criteria & Management Requirements:
Problem Solving: Identifies and solves complex problems that impact multiple areas. Applies independent analysis based on in-depth research and critical thinking to recommend solutions.
Decisions: Routinely analyzes unique issues or problems and functions with a high degree of autonomy.
Knowledge: Requires specialized knowledge and expertise in own job discipline and deep experience in integrating related disciplinary knowledge. Applies specialized knowledge of industry standards/practices on key projects and initiatives.
Business Acumen: Interprets internal/external business challenges. Recommends best practices to improve products, processes, or services to distinguish from the competition.
Communication & Influence: Communicates difficult concepts and negotiates with others to adopt a different point of view. Converts technical information to compelling business context and advice.
Impact: Decisions will have significant impact to multiple departments or disciplines.
Leadership: Manages projects and end to end programs with moderate resource requirements, risk and/or complexity. Provides training and leadership for other team members. Key role in planning and coordinating with others for projects or tasks. May contribute input to the performance review of other team members. Primary role is an individual contributor however may also manage one lower level employee.

Work Environment: Typical Office

Other Work Environment Requirements:
Typical Office: Operates in a typical office environment, routinely uses computer and other standard office equipment.

Other Physical Requirements:
Typical Office: Generally sedentary for prolonged periods, may occasionally require ability to move about or adjust/move items weighing up to 10 lbs. in all directions; Constantly requires collaboration and the ability to communicate with others to exchange information while in a typical office setting. Collaboration is generally conducted in person unless the role has been pre-approved for remote work.

This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.