Senior Demand Planner

Mini-Circuits•Melville, NY

11d•$99,000 - $115,000

About The Position

Mini-Circuits designs, manufactures and distributes integrated circuits, modules, and sub-systems for high-performance radio frequency (RF) and microwave applications. With design, sales and manufacturing locations in over 30 countries, Mini-Circuits’ products are used in a range of wired and wireless communications applications. Our products are also used in detection, measurement and imaging applications, including military communication, guidance and electronic countermeasure systems, commercial, scientific, military land, sea and aircraft; automotive systems, medical systems, and industrial test equipment. Mini-Circuits’ sells its products to over 20,000 customers globally through our direct sales force, applications engineering staff, sales representatives, as well as through our extensive website. Position Summary: The Senior Demand Planner will focus on forecasting demand and aggregating insights based on trends and patterns, using historical data and cross functional inputs from Sales and Marketing to maximize fulfillment rates that drive shipments. The Senior Demand Planner will assist the Manager of Demand Planning in building and structuring weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting to monitor performance and identify risks and opportunities. In partnership with the Manager of Demand Planning, the Senior Demand Planner will communicate risks and opportunities during the monthly S&OP cycle to ensure stakeholders remain aligned. This role will take the lead in supporting the Product Life Cycle process to ensure model rationalization in keeping the assortment relevant and profitable.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Logistics, Materials Management, Supply Chain Management or related field
10 years’ experience in Demand Forecasting
Exceptional planning, time management and organizational skills are a must
Proficient in mathematics
Advanced proficiency in MS Excel with proficiency in MS Office and related Suite programs

Nice To Haves

Functional experience with one or more data visualization tools (i.e., Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Qlik, Sisense, etc.) strongly preferred
Experience in an MRP environment strongly preferred
SAP experience preferred
APICS certification strongly preferred
Previous experience in a formal or informal leadership capacity
Comply, understand, and support corporate safety initiatives to ensure a safe work environment
Ability and willingness to abide by Company’s Code of Conduct
Occasional travel, some overnight, as required

Responsibilities

Address demand related constraints in a timely manner.
High level of competency to monitor/report significant changes in the forecasts and inventory estimations to manager and in an S&OP environment.
Adhere to monthly forecasting cycle
Review and analyze current demand and forecast data
Collaborate with the NPI team and establish appropriate forecasts
Initiates continuous and effective communication across all necessary departments to understand demands, trends and challenges.
Works with the Demand Planning Manager to develop risk mitigation and contingency planning strategies.
Identify areas of process improvement.
Work towards improving model configuration to fine tune the forecast
Perform other duties as necessary and as assigned
Comfortable presenting to executive leadership and communicating insights clearly to stakeholders.