S&OP Planner - Support Functions
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 13, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 5, 2026. Thales Group scores A on the Alion truth index.
About the Team
A Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) department has been initiated who’s mission is to bridge the gap between strategic and operational planning. The S&OP department are part of the Thales Netherlands One Naval (TN-Naval) organization, principally based out of Hengelo, The Netherlands.
About your future job
In the role of S&OP Planner - Support Functions you are a key player helping contribute to the within the monthly S&OP demand and capacity cycle. You are responsible for the delivery of the S&OP demand and supply plan for the Support functions Segment of TN-Naval. Support functions include Bids & Proposals, Project Management, Project Management Office, QA, Legal & Contracts Management, Procurement and Configuration Management.
The S&OP demand & Supply plan aims to balance Support Functions workload demand across the various inputs streams (Bids, committed projects, Industry Products, Internal department activities) and compared with the versus available projected staffing capacity of the Support Functions department and its sub-disciplines.
You are to engagement the stakeholders of the S&OP department, the Support Functions and TN-Naval to ensure the process is followed, the input demand workload is secured and o provide summarized demand vs capacity data/ forecasts to the stakeholders for review, commitment and for the basis of subsequent decisions to be taken by Management.
Where required, you are expected to prepare scenarios for sharing amongst the stakeholders as mitigations to close any visible headcount or skills gaps and present these the S&OP Support Function Discipline Heads and the S&OP management team to take action.
Last but definitely not least, you initiate, lead or contribute to improvements of the S&OP process, data capture and reporting to stakeholders.
Main tasks and responsibilities
- Owner of the S&OP Demand and Supply plan - Support Functions;
- Delivery of the monthly supply plan for the S&OP Cycle consisting of the capacity graphs, resource plan and scenarios to balance demand and supply;
- Monitoring execution of chosen scenarios and/or actions as a result of the S&OP cycle;
- Organizing supply plan (review) meetings with the Support Functions Heads pf Department;
- Be a business partner of Support Functions in the resolution of their mid-term capacity issues;
- Driver of continuous improvement of the supply plan and process for Support Functions to drive to a higher maturity.
Experience
You would be a good match if you have the following education, expertise and skills
- Master or Bachelor level (HBO/WO), preferably Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, and/or Production;
- Engineering experience or qualification in an Engineering or Operations discipline highly desirable
- 5-10 years’ experience in an Engineering, Manufacturing or Technological Organization;
- Knowledge and experience with BI tooling and/ Anaplan;
- Proactive, driven and committed character
- Structured, process-oriented, Agile and self aware;
- Excellent communicator and ability to engage stakeholders at all levels of an organisation.
- Good combination of social, analytical and conceptual skills;
- Diligent, forward thinker, strategic thinker, collaborative, team player.
- You feel comfortable to work in a volatile and challenging environment where quality and format of source data, tooling, creating scenario’s and reporting is still in development.
- Ability to communicate in Dutch and English.
What's in it for you
- A challenging job in a great team within our high-tech, innovative work environment. Includes the freedom for initiative and good ideas
- Room for personal and professional growth within our organization, for example in regards to technical, commercial or international skills
- Valuable international collaboration with coworkers from 68 different countries around the globe.
- A comfortable work space in a modern environment, with a focus on flexibility and the right work life balance.
- You can usually work where and when you want to be able to do your work as well and efficiently as possible. Within Thales we implement hybrid working, where you can, for example, work from home two days a week if your role allows it.
- A good salary, fitting travel allowance, and the ability to personalize your employment conditions: for instance, you can trade days off for internet costs, our bicycle plan, company fitness and relocation costs.
- 40 days off per year (PTO). Yes, really.
Interested?
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