Demand Planner

For more than 80 years, our client’s engineers and product specialists have partnered with customers to produce highly engineered connectivity and sensing solutions that make a connected world possible. Their focus on reliability, durability, and sustainability exemplifies their commitment to progress. The unmatched range of their product portfolio enables companies, large and small, to turn ideas into technology that can transform how the world works and lives tomorrow.

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of the monthly demand planning execution drumbeat which includes the enhancement of statistical forecast and facilitate monthly demand review calls with marketing team for project-driven demand.
• Adjust and validate the forecasts based on the collaborative information from key stakeholders and hold a handshake meeting with commercial office to ensure market and finance alignment.
• Review final output with supply planning prior to forecast upload in preparation of any ramp-up and ramp-down activities to enhance supply readiness and inventory management.
• Be up to date with NPI (New Product Introduction) offers and activities in order to align market expectations and timeline with forecast in the system.
• Coordinate product life cycle changes such as obsolescence, replacements, new offers, projects, or promotions of the business across both commercial and supply chain team.
• Measure and analyze forecast accuracy at multi-levels (material, product line, business) and work with the necessary stakeholders to drive improvement.
• Participate in S&OP activities to monitor demand planning performance and highlight critical product lines or projects that will need support from supply chain team.
• Act as the mediator between supply chain and commercial office on pushing forecast realization, as well as, ensuring supply availability for critical orders/projects.
• Take ownership of the demand planning function and drive actions that are aligned with business goals and KPIs.

Requirements:

• Degree /Diploma in Business, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering or equivalent 
• SAP (or other ERP software) – 1-2 years
• SAP Integrated Business Planning software (or other demand planning software) – 1-2 years
• Understanding of MRP – 1-2 years
• Planning and experience in Demand Forecasting – 1-2 years
• Understanding of S&OP – 1-2 years
• Experience with data management, reporting, and analysis using tools at least using Excel VLOOKUP, Pivot, IF, and mathematical functions
• Experience in statistical forecasting
• Experience with SAP Integrated Business Planning Demand software
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen attention to detail. Needs to be detailoriented with given importance to accuracy
• Strong verbal communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively and confidently with cross-functional global teams and stakeholders
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, managing multiple priorities and following drumbeats and deadlines effectively.
• Able and willing to work necessary hours to meet all project deadlines, travel when necessary.
• Able to modify working hours to accommodate global time zones. 
• Develop mutually beneficial, respectful, and effective relationships with peers to ensure seamless coordination between departments, maximize synergy, and maintain a shared vision, strategy, and focus.
• Must be detail oriented and able to communicate to cross functional teams.
• Able and willing to work necessary hours to meet all project deadlines, travel when necessary