Demand Planning Leader

Novelis North America HQ•Atlanta, GA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Novelis is one of the world leaders in aluminum recycling and rolling and a leading sustainable aluminum solutions provider. Driven by our purpose of shaping a sustainable world together, we work alongside our customers to provide innovative solutions to the aerospace, automotive, beverage packaging and specialty markets. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Novelis has approximately 13,000 employees in 32 operating facilities on 4 continents. The Demand Planning Leader is responsible for ensuring the quality and consistency of customer sales demand. They lead the Demand Planning Analysts to validate customer forecasts and generate the regional value stream demand forecast. They work with leadership teams at the global, regional, and plant levels to generate consensus forecasts in alignment with Novelis sales and operations plans.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in business or similar subject area
5-7 years related experience in multinational manufacturing company
Demand planning work experience
Excellent communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills
Strong Excel skills (intermediate level)
Leadership skills to direct, lead and develop team members to accomplish objectives
Experience working with a forecasting system
Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship

Nice To Haves

SAP experience an asset

Responsibilities

Develop the rolling 24 month unconstrained demand forecast and review with the Commercial Team, adjust as appropriate, submit timely to the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) team
Collaborate with the Commercial and Account Management Teams to understand customer demand and industry trends
Validate disaggregated sales demand against regional, customer, product, and site capacity allocations to ensure alignment to S&OP, supervise constraining activities as needed
Ensure demand loaded in the planning system is aligned with the S&OP plan
Work closely with Master Planning team to ensure customer requirements are planning properly and in alignment with S&OP
Proactively communicate to the Master Planning team significant deviations between sales and forecast and of significant changes in the future demand plan
Establish allocation strategies and provide direction to the Commercial/AMS team to allocate orders to align with the constrained S&OP demand plan
Monitor inventory levels and create action plans to meet finished good inventory targets
Develop forecast accuracy metrics
Analyze sales order history and customer/market intelligence to improve forecast accuracy
Identify and track contributing factors to forecast errors to make recommendations and develop action plans to drive forecast accuracy improvements and reduce errors
Work with the Commercial team and Customer Service teams to monitor and improve forecast accuracy
Annually, work with the Commercial team to develop the demand plan for the 5-year Strategic plan

Benefits

Medical, dental and vision insurance
Health savings accounts – Company Funded Health Savings Account (HSA) and Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Company-paid basic life insurance and Additional voluntary life coverage
Paid vacation and competitive personal time off
401(k) savings plan with company match
Retiree Medical Plans – medical and prescription drug coverage through Novelis sponsored Retiree Health Access
Retirement Savings Account
Employee assistance programs – available 24/7 to you and your family
Wellness and Work Life Support - career development and educational assistance!