Sales & Operations Planning Manager (Aftermarket) – Trent XWB Value Stream

Sales & Operations Planning Manager (Aftermarket) – Trent XWB Value Stream

Flexible working patterns considered

Derby / Hybrid 3 days on-site

Do you thrive on solving complex logistics challenges? Are you excited by the idea of optimizing Operations and driving efficiency? If Planning & Control or Supply Chain is more than just a job to you – it's your passion – then we want to hear from you!

At Rolls-Royce in our Trent XWB Commercial Aviation Value Stream team, you would lead as our Sales & Operations Planning Manager (Aftermarket).

With over 600 aircraft in service and a growing order book of 1300 aircraft, the Trent XWB Value Stream covers the full scope of activity for both engines in service and development. This provides a unique opportunity to develop business breadth, lead a team, and play a pivotal role in delivering Rolls-Royce’s financial commitments.

This position, reporting to the Senior Vice President - Fleet Management, will be the Value Stream lead for all activity related to maintaining and forecasting all parts demands in support of overhaul shop visits and engine on-wing requirements. Working as the primary interface with Aftermarket Operations, Portfolio Planning, Customer-facing teams, Value Stream, Procurement, and Manufacturing, this role will integrate a range of internal and external information to create a demand scenario that satisfies operational and financial requirements.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build, and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting, and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that have shaped our history continue into our future, and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

What we offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance, and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum, we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What you will be doing:

• Collaborate with the Sales & Operations Planning Manager (OE)
• Lead and develop a team of Service Parts Planners
• Lead the Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning process (SIOP) on behalf of the Trent XWB Value Stream to determine actual and forecast demands for new parts to support sales to Airline Operators and Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) facilities in the execution of Rolls-Royce aftermarket services
• Secure and reconcile multiple stakeholder inputs to create demand scenarios, understanding implications for operational and financial commitments and securing buy-off with CEO-2/ CEO-3 stakeholders
• Work with the Portfolio Planning, Procurement, and Manufacturing teams to ensure that all approved demand signals can be scheduled, risks understood, and demand/supply balancing activities successfully resolved
• Lead the inventory budgeting and management activity of Aftermarket (1203) to ensure the delivery of year-on-year improvement in stock turns
• Evaluate and provide guidance/feedback to internal stakeholders and external customers on the impact of aftermarket overhaul build rate and service support changes
• Support the end-to-end Trent XWB supply chain in understanding longer-term forecasts for strategic decision-making and rate assessments for Aftermarket.
• Working closely with the Planning community, support SIOP transformation with identification and implementation of process improvement

Who we’re looking for:

At Rolls-Royce, we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple, and make a difference. These principles form the behaviors that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles, and for this role, we are looking for someone with:

• Degree or APICs/ASCM qualified or relevant strong Planning & Control/Supply Chain Management experience
• Personal drive and motivation to reconcile different business objectives through excellent collaboration and innovative problem-solving skills
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and apply logical thinking to support the creation of recommendations to achieve business goals
• Ability to communicate succinctly & influence senior stakeholder groups
• Strong data manipulation & analysis skills combined with proficiency in Excel
• Experience of personally delivering and engaging diverse teams in performance improvement with pace

For this role, we are open to discussing flexibility on geographical location and exploring what’s possible for the role.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realize their full potential.

We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

Job Category: Supply Chain Planning & Control Posting Date: 25 Feb 2025; 00:02 Posting End Date: 10 Mar 2025