Head of Strategic Planning
Skills
About the role
A Snapshot of Your Day
As Head of Strategic Planning, you will lead the development and execution of our Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) strategy, ensuring business demand, operational capability, and long-term growth plans remain aligned. Working closely with senior leaders across Sales, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, and Manufacturing, you'll translate business strategy into actionable plans that drive performance, improve forecasting, and support informed decision-making.
Leading a specialist planning team, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring our business has the capacity, resources, and operational readiness to meet customer demand while supporting sustainable growth.
How You'll Make an Impact
Lead the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process, ensuring business plans align with operational capability and long-term strategic objectives.
Develop demand, capacity, and resource planning strategies that support business growth and improve forecasting accuracy.
Partner with Sales, Operations, Supply Chain, and senior leadership teams to optimise planning processes and drive informed decision-making.
Develop and maintain capacity models that ensure the business can successfully deliver current and future customer demand.
Monitor and report key planning and operational performance metrics, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and business performance.
Lead, develop, and inspire a high-performing strategic planning team focused on collaboration, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
What You Bring
Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Operations, Engineering, or a related discipline. A Master's degree would be advantageous.
Significant experience in Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), strategic planning, supply chain, or operations management within a manufacturing or industrial environment.
Strong leadership experience with the ability to develop teams and influence stakeholders across multiple business functions.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with experience developing forecasting, capacity planning, and business performance models.
Experience using SAP and planning systems to support operational and strategic decision-making.
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to present strategic recommendations to senior leadership.
About the Team
Our Gas Services division offers low-emission power generation through service and decarbonization. We bring together gas turbines, steam turbines, generators, and digital service solutions under one roof. Through modernization, digitalization, and innovative service offerings, we support customers worldwide in improving reliability, efficiency, and sustainability.
The Strategic Planning team plays a vital role in aligning customer demand with operational capability, ensuring the business is positioned to deliver safely, efficiently, and sustainably. By working closely with teams across the organisation, the function enables informed decision-making that supports both short-term execution and long-term business success.
Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably.
The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.
Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.
Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy:
Our Commitment to Diversity
Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character, no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.
Rewards/Benefits
26 days holiday, increasing to 29 days with time served
Access to a flexible benefits portal including private medical cover, cycle-to-work schemes, and more
A class-leading adjustable pension scheme
Opportunities for career development and continuous learning
The opportunity to influence strategic business planning within a global energy organisation
Exposure to senior leadership and key business decisions that shape the future of Siemens Energy
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