Demand Planning Manager

In this role you will manage team of ~3 Demand Planning Analysts - Responsible for hiring, managing, training, developing and evaluating the team. Oversees team to ensure they are appropriately utilizing systems, following standard work processes, completing required tasks accurately and within established deadlines. Monitors progress to goals and supports resolution of issues.

Responsibilities:

• Forecast Accuracy - create and implement processes to achieve best in class performance
• Demand Stability - identify practices that cause gyration to the supply base and systematically resolve
• Inventory - Collaborate with Supply Planning to achieve inventory targets
• Excess & Obsolescence - Collaborate with Supply Planning to mitigate opportunities
• Sales & Operations Planning - Drive alignment with Sales, Finance, Supply, Product and Engineering teams on demand plan over 2-year planning horizon
• Cost - Drive efficiency in all areas of work and allocate resources to best achieve expected outcomes
• Organizational and talent development - develop and retain a highly productive and efficient team while driving a succession pipeline
• Coordinate across demand and supply teams in other regions - Participate in strategy development and lead programs to drive global adoption of best practices, innovations in planning while allowing for regional flexibility
• Other duties as assigned

Critical Success Factors

• Proven leader who is action oriented and driven to create value and make an impact
• Passionate about driving improvements and deploying best practices with an evolving, performance-based environment
• A self starter requiring little oversight or direction
• Thrives in an environment that requires influence of others through a combination of analytics and relationship building
• Ability to work globally and navigate cultural sensitivity and awareness of the appropriate leadership style for a given geography
• Entrepreneurial and able to work with limited resources. Possesses the ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
• Works collaboratively across a complex organization considering end to end impacts, can scale leadership to work effectively with Senior management and line-level employees
• Maintains the highest levels of personal and professional integrity, ethics and unquestioned integrity in each of his/her initiatives
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including effective use of presentations
• Ability to summarize complex topics into simple and relevant factors for leadership
• Analytical acumen; obtain, organize, and draw insights from multiple data sources

Qualifications:

• Experience driving cross-functional alignment through S&OP or consensus planning processes
• Strong change management skills with proven success in delivering complex projects
• Oracle or other ERP/APS software experience and strong knowledge of Microsoft Office suite required.
• 2+ years of management experience and/or other people leadership experience preferred