S&OP Transformation Lead

About the role

As an S&OP Lead, you'll help clients design and improve their Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) capabilities. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you'll guide organizations through planning transformations that improve collaboration, decision-making and business performance across the supply chain.

You'll combine your planning expertise with strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills to turn business challenges into practical, sustainable solutions.

In this role, you will:

• Design and implement Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) processes for international clients.

• Assess existing planning processes and identify opportunities for improvement.

• Facilitate workshops and align stakeholders across supply chain, operations, commercial and finance.

• Design future S&OP operating models and help senior stakeholders define new ways of working.

• Build business cases and support clients in driving organizational change.

• Partner with senior stakeholders to establish effective planning capabilities across the organization.

• Support business development through proposals and client discussions.

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About you

• You have experience designing or improving Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) or Integrated Business Planning (IBP) processes.

• You have a good understanding of end-to-end planning processes, including demand planning, supply planning and S&OP.

• You're comfortable facilitating workshops and collaborating with stakeholders across different business functions.

• You enjoy solving complex business challenges and translating them into practical solutions.

• Experience in consulting is a plus, but we also welcome candidates with a strong industry background.

• Experience with planning solutions such as Kinaxis, SAP IBP, OMP or similar platforms is considered an asset.

• You have a Master’s degree.

• You feel connected with and are ready to represent our company values: dig deep, own it, come together, move fast and be kind!

• You show a willingness to travel globally and to work in a hybrid working model.

• You have a valid driver’s license or will obtain this in the next 6 months.

Why join us?

• Build S&OP capabilities that have a lasting impact across the entire organization.

• Work on planning transformations for global industry leaders.

• Partner with senior business stakeholders to solve complex planning challenges.

• Take ownership and contribute to the growth of our Planning practice.

• Learn from and collaborate with an experienced team of planning experts.

• Enjoy a flexible & hybrid work environment, combining remote work, office presence and onsite client visits.

• Enjoy benefits such as a competitive salary including a bonus and an electric company car with convenient charging options.

About us

At Bluecrux, we transform supply chains into smart, efficient value chains through a blend of expert consulting and cutting-edge technology. We collaborate closely with industry leaders like Johnson & Johnson, GSK, Bridgestone, AkzoNobel, Beiersdorf, Oatly, and many more – creating partnerships that drive meaningful impact. With a global presence in Europe, the US and APAC, we’re committed to shaping the future of value chains, one success story at a time.

Within the Supply Chain Planning business unit, we have built up specific expertise in four main areas: Life sciences, Consumer Goods, Chemicals & Industrials. In these industries, we support a range of global leaders in their E2E planning transformation journey such as Bayer, Johnson&Johnson, BASF and Bridgestone.

During these E2E supply chain planning transformations, our experts support our customers in every step of their journey. We partner up to define a vision and review the operating model to create a strong and agile basis for the future.

The Supply Chain Planning business unit designs & implements our customers’ business transformation by defining the future organizational operating model, designing new ways of working & advanced planning systems (APS), feeding their data factory, accelerating their setup towards agile S&OP or guiding them through their end-to-end supply chain planning. We do not work for them but rather with them, and we stand by their side the entire time. That is the only way to make changes stick and flourish.