S&OP Lead (Hardware Manufacturing)

Location: Auckland HQ; office-first, with flexibility when needed

Company

hirify.global develops technology that helps farmers and graziers run more productive and sustainable cattle operations.

What you will do

• Design and own the end-to-end S&OP cadence, from demand review and supply review through executive S&OP.
• Facilitate the monthly planning cycle and bring commercial, forecasting, supply planning, and operations stakeholders to a consensus plan.
• Identify demand and supply mismatches, quantify their impact, and drive cross-functional resolution.
• Maintain visibility into inventory and product availability across international markets.
• Prepare executive S&OP meetings with clear data, trade-offs, recommendations, and tracked actions.
• Build reporting and continuously improve planning processes, supply-health visibility, and forecast accuracy as the business scales.

Requirements

• Solid experience running S&OP or integrated business planning processes in a hardware or manufacturing environment.
• Experience building or significantly improving an S&OP process from the ground up.
• Exceptional facilitation and meeting-design skills, with the ability to align stakeholders with competing priorities.
• Strong analytical skills and experience working with complex datasets, planning models, and assumption stress testing.
• Commercial and operational fluency across demand risk, supply planning, and lead-time exposure.
• A bias for action, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to address unresolved planning issues directly.

Culture & Benefits

• Office-first culture focused on in-person connection, collaboration, learning, and high performance.
• Flexible, high-trust working environment when working from the office is not required.
• Southern Cross Health Insurance support.
• Six months of fully paid parental leave for primary caregivers and four weeks for secondary caregivers.
• Annual $1,000 personal development budget, wellness leave, and unlimited paid annual leave.
• Remuneration package includes salary, benefits, and an employee stock ownership plan.

Hiring process

• Submit a cover letter explaining interest in the role and hirify.global, together with a CV.
• Shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further discussion.