Demand Planning Manager

Regal Rexnord•Milwaukee, WI

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Demand Planning Manager is responsible for developing, maintaining, and communicating the demand forecast for Regal Rexnord industrial motor product lines across multiple regions, channels, and customer segments. This high-level individual contributor role owns the demand signal and partners closely with Sales, Product Management, Finance, Operations, Manufacturing, Procurement, and Supply Chain to translate market and customer inputs into an accurate, actionable demand plan. The role is critical to improving forecast accuracy, reducing forecast bias, supporting supply continuity, and enabling the business to balance customer service, production capacity, inventory investment, and working capital objectives.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Operations, Finance, or a related discipline.
Minimum 5 years of experience in demand planning, forecasting, supply chain planning, or S&OP / SIOP.
Experience in manufacturing, industrial products, motors, automation, power transmission, or engineered equipment industries.
Strong analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills with the ability to convert data into actionable recommendations.
Advanced Microsoft Excel capability and experience working with ERP / MRP systems such as SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, or equivalent systems.
Experience with forecasting and planning tools.
Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive alignment without direct authority.
Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States without requiring company sponsorship to obtain or keep U.S. work authorization.

Nice To Haves

APICS CPIM, CSCP, IBF, or equivalent supply chain certification.
Experience participating in or supporting a mature S&OP / SIOP process.
Knowledge of industrial motor markets, OEM channels, distribution networks, and aftermarket demand patterns.
Experience with Power BI, Tableau, Snowflake, or advanced analytics platforms.
Experience with demand sensing and scenario planning methods.
Exposure to multi-site manufacturing and global supply chain environments.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain monthly, quarterly, and annual demand forecasts for industrial motor product lines across regions, channels, and customers.
Analyze historical sales trends, market signals, customer demand patterns, seasonality, and business intelligence to improve forecast quality.
Build statistical forecasts and incorporate commercial, product, and operational inputs into a consensus demand plan.
Evaluate forecast assumptions, identify demand drivers, and communicate risks, opportunities, and changes to stakeholders.
Partner with Sales, Product Management, Finance, Operations, Manufacturing, Procurement, and Supply Chain to align demand plans with business objectives.
Facilitate demand review discussions and drive consensus forecasting without direct authority.
Communicate forecast changes, assumptions, and business impacts in a clear, actionable manner.
Serve as a key contributor to the monthly S&OP / SIOP process.
Prepare demand review materials, forecast performance summaries, and executive-level updates.
Collaborate with supply planning teams to understand constraints and reflect supply realities in planning assumptions.
Partner with production planning, procurement, and inventory teams to support supply continuity and inventory optimization.
Monitor demand-driven inventory requirements and recommend actions that balance service levels, inventory turns, and working capital.
Identify demand variability risks and recommend mitigation actions.
Support new product introductions, product transitions, promotions, and end-of-life planning.
Partner with Product Management to quantify demand impacts from launch, phase-in, phase-out, and customer conversion activity.
Monitor adoption rates, volume transitions, and demand shifts across product families, channels, and customer segments.
Develop and maintain forecasting models, reporting tools, dashboards, and executive readouts.
Prepare analysis on demand trends, forecast accuracy, forecast bias, inventory health, service performance, and capacity risk.
Perform root cause analysis of forecast misses and demand variability.
Identify opportunities to improve forecasting methods, planning cadence, data quality, and system utilization.