Regional Demand Fulfillment Manager
About The Position
As a member of the Demand Fulfillment Team, the Regional Demand Fulfillment Manager ensures end-to-end demand fulfillment for a product segment in alignment with relevant functions within and across business areas. The role supports agreed service-level, inventory (WoC), and cost targets, contributing to the business area’s sales and EBIT targets. The position owns the SIOP process, with a focus on customer requirements and optimizing capacity utilization, inventory, and supply-chain costs. It leads demand and inventory planning and demand-supply balancing, including finished-goods demand allocation and escalation. The manager reviews and reports monthly SIOP results, monitors product-segment performance against standard KPIs, drives alignment across functions, and identifies and implements process improvements. The role also supports product phase-in and phase-out, collaborates with the SCM Processes & Projects team to define, train, and implement standard supply-chain processes, and functionally leads plant supply-chain managers and teams in the cluster. It supports SCM staff recruitment, performance and potential reviews, training, and development.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business Administration, or a related field.
- At least 7 years of experience managing end-to-end SIOP processes in a multi-plant environment.
- Management or leadership responsibility in Supply Chain and/or Manufacturing Operations.
- Experience designing, implementing, and operating supply-chain processes and related systems.
- Project management experience in an international or global context.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Hands-on approach to working across all parts of the organization.
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S.; the company will not sponsor employment visas for this job now or in the future.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with SAP.
Responsibilities
- Own the SIOP process, focusing on customer requirements while optimizing capacity utilization, inventory, and supply-chain cost structures.
- Lead demand planning, inventory planning, and demand-supply balancing, including finished-goods demand allocation and escalation within and across business areas.
- Review and report monthly SIOP results for the product segment in line with business-area and supply-chain strategic direction.
- Drive alignment with Sales/Segments, Plant Operations, DC Operations, Customer Logistics, and Controlling, and participate in cross-business-area capacity-alignment governance.
- Monitor product-segment performance using standard KPIs, including OTIF, inventory, capacity utilization, supply-chain cost, and forecast accuracy.
- Identify and implement opportunities for continuous improvement and process excellence.
- Maintain a strong focus on meeting or exceeding customer requirements.
- Support product phase-in and phase-out.
- Collaborate with the SCM Processes & Projects team to define, train, and implement standard supply-chain processes.
- Functionally lead plant supply-chain managers and teams in the cluster.
- Support SCM staff recruitment, performance and potential reviews, training, and development.
Benefits
- Immediate benefits
- Paid time off
- Tuition assistance
- Employee discounts
- Employer 401(k) match
- Competitive bonus programs
- Employee Assistance Program
- Future growth opportunities, including personal and professional development
- Other benefits associated with working for a global industry leader
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
