Director of Planning and Materials, FPD - Flowserve Corporation

Company Overview: If a culture of excellence, innovation and ownership is what you’re searching for, consider putting your experience in motion at Flowserve. As an individual contributor, or as a leader of people, your enterprise mindset will ensure Flowserve’s position as the global standard in comprehensive flow control solutions. Here, your opportunity for professional development and industry leading rewards will be supported by our foundational commitments to the values of people first, integrity and safety. Thinking beyond opportunity and reward, at Flowserve, we are inspired by working together to create extraordinary flow control solutions to make the world better for everyone! Role Summary: Leads analysis of demand developments, the forecasting and planning of production, the control of progress, and the initiation of action when necessary. Responsibilities: + Production Planning: Lead on design and development of the overall production planning framework and systems in a complex manufacturing business, including dependencies with other processes/units. Develop key strategic insights based on external and internal information sources and develop and analyze product planning scenarios to enable the development of the strategic production planning and control of progress. + Business Planning: Develop and gain agreement to annual business plans for a function or substantial business area, ensuring alignment with strategy; quantify business outcomes (i.e. revenues or other key performance indicators); detail expense and headcount budgets; and develop business cases for key projects, ensuring cross-functional integration. + Budgeting: Take responsibility for setting and managing area budgets so they align with organizational strategy. + Data Collection and Analysis: Make authoritative recommendations that have a significant impact on the business over the short and long term. Recommendations could be technical or professional in nature. + Operations Management: Support the overall organizational strategy by developing and delivering operational plans and outcomes for a large portion of the business. + Strategic Planning: Take responsibility for developing and delivering the strategic planning approach for a key part of the organization. + Leadership and Direction: Communicate the function's strategy and its relationship to the organization's mission, vision and values; clarify the actions needed to implement it within the area of responsibility; motivate people to commit to these and to doing extraordinary things to achieve the organization's business goals. + Internal Client Relationship Management: Lead the development of partnering relationships with senior executives throughout the organization, building high levels of professional credibility and mutual trust, and ensuring that internal clients have access to high-quality advice and guidance to support in delivering business strategy and plans. + Stakeholder Engagement: Identify and manage stakeholders up to top management level, finding out their needs/issues/concerns and reacting to these by leading and coordinating the development of stakeholder engagement plans to support the communication of business information and decisions. + Performance Management: Manage and report on the performance of the function / business area; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports and hold them accountable for achieving these; take appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of annual business objectives. + Organizational Capability Building: Identify the capabilities needed to meet the current and emerging business needs of a significant business area. Evaluate current capabilities, identify gaps, and prioritize development activities. Motivate others to develop their capabilities and fulfill their personal potential. Build capabilities elsewhere in the organization through mentoring and other informal methods. + Plans and Aligns: Plans and prioritizes work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals. For example, takes steps to coordinate and align plans across workgroups; supports strategic objectives with aggressive yet realistic time frames; shares some critical objectives to help with prioritizing and planning. + Strategic Mindset: Sees ahead to future possibilities and translates them into breakthrough strategies. For example, keeps up to date on current and future industry trends and market forces and considers these when making decisions. Clearly identifies and prioritizes efforts and initiatives to have the greatest strategic impact on the organization. + Ensures Accountability: Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments. For example, measures and tracks team's and own performance, and helps the team learn from success, failure, and feedback. Adheres to, and enforces, goals, policies, and procedures. + Business Insight: Applies knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals. For example, leverages insights to shape and drive critical initiatives. Shares industry developments with the team; helps them grasp business and industry fundamentals and understand how they contribute. + Financial Acumen: Interprets and applies key financial indicators to make better business decisions. For example, provides rich and rigorous forecasts of the financial implications of ideas and opportunities. Makes well-balanced decisions regarding expenditures that take into account multiple considerations. + Balances Stakeholders: Anticipates and balances the needs of multiple stakeholders. For example, shows a strong commitment to identifying all relevant issues and making decisions that maximize outcomes for all key stakeholders. Engages effectively with multiple stakeholders and responds with well-balanced, win-win solutions. + Manages Complexity: Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems. For example, sees the systematic elements of issues' the major connections, linkages, and interdependencies. Ensures the organization has reliable ways to gather needed information. + Collaborates: Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. For example, encourages coworkers and external partners to work together as a team, and makes sure they get credit for doing so. Encourages people to share their honest views, responds in a non-defensive way when they do. + Instills Trust: Gains the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity. For example, demonstrates integrity, upholding professional codes of conduct. Instills trust by following through on agreements and commitments despite competing priorities and by being honest and straightforward. + Resourcefulness: Secures and deploys resources effectively and efficiently. For example, coaches others on how to determine the resources needed and how to obtain them in order for objectives to successfully complete their objectives and how to conserve resources. Optimizes team resources across multiple objectives to maximize their value. + Decision Quality: Makes good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward. For example, ensures that people's decisions comply with policies and standards. Integrates analysis, experience, and other inputs to make effective decisions. Accepts workable decisions and also seeks better alternatives. + Drives Vision and Purpose: Paints a compelling picture of the vision and strategy that motivates others to action. For example, makes the vision real for others and encourages people to buy in; paints an engaging and illuminating picture of future possibilities for the team. Gives people an understanding of how their efforts and contributions make a positive difference. + Builds Effective Teams: Builds strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals. For example, mentors others on how to build effective teams; takes actions to correct dysfunctional teams. Ensures that the team has the right mix of skills; leverages individual strengths effectively. + Customer Focus: Builds strong customer relationships and delivers customer-centric solutions. For example, solicits customer feedback and data; conveys a clear understanding of the level of service the team is providing; takes action when standards are not met by team; aligns business process with customer needs. + Other duties as assigned Requirements: + BS or BA Degree in relevant field and/or 10+ years relevant experience + Experience with SAP + Ability to travel up to 50% + 10+ years of relevant experience at a global level Preferred Experience / Skills: + Action Planning: Applies expertise to act as the organizational authority on developing appropriate plans or performing necessary actions based on recommendations and requirements. + Planning and Organizing: Uses expertise to act as organizational authority on planning, organizing, prioritizing and overseeing activities to efficiently meet business objectives. + Data Collection and Analysis: Acts as the organizational authority and established expert on analyzing data trends for use in reports to help guide decision making. + Policy and procedures: Uses expertise to act as the organizational authority on developing, monitoring, interpreting and understanding policies and procedures, while making sure they match organizational strategies and objectives. + Costing and Budgeting: Acts as the organizational authority and established expert on costing, budgeting and finance tasks. + Review and Reporting: Uses expertise to acts as the organizational authority on reviewing and creating relevant, lucid and effective reports. + Verbal Communication: Acts with expertise as the organization's authority on using clear and effective verbal communications skills to express ideas, request actions and formulate plans or policies. + Computer Skills: Acts as the organization's authority and established expert on understanding and using standard office equipment and standard software packages to support business processes. + Data Control: Acts as the organizational authority and established expert on acquiring, organizing, protecting and processing data to fulfill business objectives. + Production Resource Management: Applies expertise to act as the organizational authority on managing and deploying material, people and financial resources efficiently and effectively to produce desired results. **Req ID** : R-8353 **Job Family Group** : Finance & Accounting **Job Family** : FA Financial Planning & Analysis EOE including Disability/Protected Veterans. 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