Demand Planning Senior Manager

nVent•Anoka, MN

1d•$123,500 - $229,500•Hybrid

About The Position

The Demand Planning Senior Manager leads the Data Solutions demand planning function, developing demand planners into business-facing analysts who challenge assumptions, quantify risk, and translate commercial inputs into actionable plans. The role leads the monthly Demand Review process, from preparation and data readiness through scenario development, consensus building, decision capture, and handoff to Supply Review and financial reconciliation. The position owns the approved unconstrained demand plan across product families, value streams, customers, programs, and time horizons. It partners with Sales, Product Management, Program Management, Finance, SIOP, Supply Chain, Operations, Master Scheduling, and Supply Planning to reconcile demand perspectives and establish a single planning signal. The role also establishes forecast governance, analytical methods, demand-change control, and standard work suitable for a rapidly growing make-to-order and configure-to-order portfolio. The Senior Manager improves forecast accuracy and bias, develops demand analytics connecting units, mix, revenue, backlog, forecast, and opportunity pipeline, and ensures product launches, lifecycle transitions, site transfers, and end-of-life events are represented with explicit assumptions. The role builds the processes, calendars, definitions, scorecards, and continuous-improvement routines needed to mature demand planning as the business scales.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Finance, Operations, Engineering, or a related field.
8+ years of experience in demand planning, forecasting, SIOP/IBP, supply chain planning, commercial planning, or related manufacturing-planning roles is highly preferred.
Demonstrated experience leading a demand review or consensus forecasting process across Sales, Product, Finance, and Supply Chain.
Strong analytical capability in forecast accuracy and bias, segmentation, scenario analysis, backlog and pipeline interpretation, and financial/unit reconciliation.
Working knowledge of ERP/MRP and planning systems.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree.
APICS CPIM/CSCP, IBF, or equivalent planning certification.
Experience in high-growth, make-to-order, configure-to-order, engineered-product, or limited-history environments.
Experience with JDE, Power BI, advanced Excel, or comparable planning and analytics tools.

Responsibilities

Lead the Data Solutions demand planning function and develop demand planners into business-facing analysts.
Lead the monthly Demand Review process, including prework, data readiness, assumption review, scenario development, consensus building, decision capture, and handoff into Supply Review and financial reconciliation.
Create and maintain the approved unconstrained demand plan across product families, value streams, customers, programs, and time horizons, distinguishing firm backlog and orders from forecast and opportunity assumptions.
Partner with Sales, Product Management, Program Management, Finance, SIOP, Supply Chain, and Operations to reconcile differing demand views and establish one agreed planning signal.
Establish forecast governance, hierarchy, segmentation, and analytical methods for a growing make-to-order and configure-to-order portfolio, including standard-product demand where history is limited.
Own demand assumptions, risks, and opportunities, including phase-in/phase-out, new-product ramps, customer timing changes, upside/downside scenarios, cancellations, forecast-consumption logic, and time fences.
Drive demand-change control so material or customer changes are visible, quantified, traceable, and communicated before affecting the master schedule, material plan, capacity plan, or customer commitments.
Improve forecast accuracy and bias through root-cause analysis, distinguishing structural forecast error from timing shifts, one-time program moves, and growth assumptions.
Create demand analytics connecting units, mix, revenue, backlog, forecast, and opportunity pipeline so leadership can understand the base plan and plausible outcome range.
Ensure new products, lifecycle transitions, site transfers, and end-of-life events are reflected in the demand plan with explicit timing and assumptions.
Partner with Master Scheduling and Supply Planning to translate the demand signal into the MPS and constrained supply process without creating competing plans.
Build standard work, role clarity, planning calendars, data definitions, scorecards, and continuous-improvement routines.