Manager Market Operations Northern Region

Job opportunity - Vertiv is looking for a new Manager Market Operations Northern Region to join our dynamic team in Southampton, United Kingdom!, The Product Operations manager is a key senior management role of the Northern Region with reporting responsibility over sales, revenue recognition and forecast, material planning & procurement, inventory, S&OP, and perfect execution as well as performing SOX controls. Reporting to Market Operations Director, this role has significant exposure to the Vertiv EMEA senior management team.,

• Manage all aspects of the Northern Region sales revenue targets including reporting to facilitate departmental and regional decision making, forecasting and forward planning.
• Manage all aspects of the Northern Region limited procurement function including related suppliers management; focused on controlling business costs and meeting delivery SLA and integration with EMEA central procurement.
• Manage all aspects of the Northern Region orders, ensuring accurate presentation and dissemination of customer orders and prompt issuing to the appropriate teams. Manage all associated KPI's.
• Manage all aspects of the Northern Region sales backlog, ensuring accuracy is maintained at all times and is proactively managed to meet monthly revenue targets.
• Interface with various EMEA management for all Northern Region inventory and material planning, such as reporting, refinements to inventory levels, replenishment performance and strategy.
• Coordinate the implementation of agreed Northern Region / EMEA material planning strategy for Northern Region, include conducting regular reviews (involving financial, service operation / delivery management and product / service sales management) to ensure Northern Region inventory can meet sales forecasts and response levels.
• Proactively manage the Northern Region suppliers in cooperation with the market unit procurement teams, contractors and subcontractors list to ensure we are always receiving best value through negotiation or rebates.
• Manage internal and external Northern Region product warehouse locations, ensuring stock management (including stock takes) and delivery KPI's are met.
• Regularly analyse and coordinate the inspection of all warehouse locations to ensure all stocks are useable (i.e. not obsolete, not exceeded recommended shelf life and are in a good saleable condition after repair/refurbish, etc).
• Overall responsibility to improve inventory turns in the Region and accountability for inventory results.
• Overall control of the Northern Region operations related works.
• Overall coverage of SOX control activities as well as internal and external audits related to operational area.
  
  Excellent personnel management experience in an operations environment.
• +5 years of experience in Project Management or Operations Management.
• Understanding of the component parts and overall costs.
• Excellent negotiating and management skills.
• Excellent process, organisation and time management skills.
• Ability to successfully interface with various departments and personnel at all levels in potentially stressful situations.
The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv's Core Principals & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities. OUR CORE PRINCIPALS: Safety. Integrity. Respect. Teamwork. Diversity & Inclusion.

At Vertiv, we're on a mission to empower the people that will power the future. From a simple swipe to life-changing medicines, from push notifications to generative AI. We design, manufacture, and service the products and solutions that keep the world connected. With $5 billion in sales, a strong customer base and global reach spanning nearly 70 countries, we are uniquely positioned to deliver greater value to our customers and create new opportunities for our people.