Sales & Operations Planning Specialist

Are you passionate about balancing demand, production, and supply in a make-to-order environment? Do you enjoy turning forecasts into actionable production plans and ensuring alignment across commercial and operational teams?

We are looking for a Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) Specialist to play a key role in connecting demand planning with production, procurement, and supply chain execution. In this role, you will ensure that our production sites are aligned with market demand, driving service levels, efficiency, and inventory performance.

Work closely with cross-functional teams across the business
As our S&OP Specialist, you will be responsible for coordinating and driving the S&OP process across our organization in Denmark, Poland and Lithuania, ensuring alignment between customer demand, commercial priorities, and operational capabilities. You will translate demand forecasts and customer requirements into feasible production, supply, and distribution plans, balancing service, capacity, inventory, and cost considerations. Working closely with sales, customers, production, procurement, logistics, and finance teams, you will ensure the right products are available at the right time while embedding customer priorities and key success factors into the planning process. You will play a key role in commercializing our supply chain, enabling data-driven decision-making and supporting sustainable growth through an integrated and responsive planning approach.

Your key responsibilities
Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)

• Lead and facilitate the end-to-end S&OP process.
• Align demand forecasts, production plans, inventory targets, and supply capabilities.
• Collaborate with sales to continuously update forecasts and review order intake.
• Integrate customer demand signals, priorities, and strategic initiatives into the S&OP process to ensure alignment between customer requirements, supply capabilities, and business objectives.
• Support scenario planning and evaluate trade-offs between service levels, inventory levels and production efficiency

Production, Capacity & Supply Planning

• Balance forecasted demand against available manufacturing capacity.
• Coordinate with procurement to ensure material availability.
• Manage finished goods inventory projections for selected customers to maintain customer service while controlling working capital.

Driving Cross-Functional Alignment

• Serve as a central link between sales, production, procurement, finance, and supply chain teams.
• Support supply chain commercialization by aligning operations with customer needs, delivering key success factors to drive growth, service excellence, and strategic objectives.
• Communicate risks, bottlenecks, and opportunities across the value chain.
• Translate production and volume plans into revenue forecasts for budgeting and financial planning.

Continuous Improvement

• Improve S&OP processes, governance, and planning tools.
• Standardize and implement best practices across manufacturing sites.
• Help build a more integrated, agile, and data-driven planning organization.

Who are you?
You have a degree in supply chain management, operations, or a related field. Experience within S&OP, production planning, or supply chain coordination is an advantage. You are analytical and structured, with a strong ability to connect commercial insights with operational realities.

You are willing to travel to our factories in Poland and Lithuania, with approximately 30-40 travel days per year.

You are a proactive and self-motivated individual with a strong drive, who also collaborates effectively within a team. At Actona Group, teamwork and shared success are key.

We imagine you are:

• Analytical and detail-oriented, with strong data interpretation skills
• A problem-solver who thrives in balancing competing priorities
• Collaborative and communicative, able to align diverse stakeholders
• Confident decision-maker, comfortable navigating trade-offs
• Structured and resilient, able to manage complexity and shifting priorities
• Having a strong understanding of production and supply chain dynamics

What you can expect

• End-to-End Impact: Influence how demand is translated into production and supply decisions
• Cross-Functional Role: Work closely with sales, production, procurement, and supply chain
• Professional Growth: Develop within S&OP, production planning, and supply chain strategy
• Dynamic Environment: Be part of a fast-paced organization with complex planning challenges
• Collaborative Culture: Work with skilled colleagues in a supportive and knowledge-sharing environment
• Flexibility & Ownership: Take ownership of key processes and drive meaningful improvements

R ecruitment process
Please submit your application and CV via our recruitment system. Interviews will be conducted on an ongoing basis.

For more information, visit actonagroup.com.

Due to the summer holiday period, our response time may be longer than usual. We will return to applicants as soon as possible from week 32 onwards.

Work location : Tvis, Holstebro

We encourage all qualified candidates to apply, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, or background.

About Actona Group
Actona Group is an international furniture company headquartered in Denmark, operating in more than 90 countries. We develop, source, and sell modern furniture solutions to some of the world’s leading retailers and private label customers.

We are on a continuous journey towards becoming a larger, stronger, and more sustainable company. We will create continued growth and value-adding services for the benefit of our customers and partners. With a sustainable focus, we also want to minimise our environmental impact.

Facts about Actona Group:

• 2,500 employees worldwide
• Headquarters, showroom, and European distribution centre in Tvis, Denmark
• Furniture production and local administration in Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine
• Trading company in China
• Part of Lars Larsen Group

If you have any questions, please contact Mathias Balle Mark
VP Supply Chain

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