Sr Demand Planning Manager

Club Car LLC

About The Position

The Senior Demand Planning Manager will have oversight of the consensus demand plan that is a critical piece to the overall SIOP process. You will implement and maintain a SIOP demand planning cadence that involves working cross-functionally with sales, finance and operations. This is a highly visible role with key inputs into the future growth of the business.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree; MBA or master’s degree in business, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Finance or equivalent preferred.
8+ years of experience in Supply Chain, Finance, Sales Operations, or Program/Project Management
Experience with demand and supply planning tools
Strong Working knowledge of S&OE and S&OP with implementation experience
Ability to build cross-functional relationships through strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Experience in demand and supply planning
Advanced capability in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
Demonstrated strong analytical skills
Strong business acumen and business partnering skills
Strong collaboration and influencing skills across multiple disciplines
Demonstrated excellent oral, written, presentation, and interpersonal skills to all levels of the organization
Strong and demonstrated drive for results
Demonstrated people development skills
High degree of initiative, creativity, and problem solving ability required

Responsibilities

Collaborate with leaders across the different business units to develop an 18-month consensus demand plan.
Partner with stakeholders across teams to capture all inputs to the demand plan and to ensure adjustments and improvements to forecasting models and methodologies are implemented.
Integrate firm backlog, order pipeline, bookings forecast, statistical forecasting, portfolio management, NPI, market intelligence and other product demand signals to create a consensus demand forecast.
Coordinate cross-functional discussions to document and challenge Demand Plan assumptions and refine the forecast.
Collaborate with senior management to align demand planning initiatives with overall business strategies and goals. Ensure alignment between revenue and demand plans.
Understand the drivers of demand changes, customers, and revenue impacts and potential effects on the downstream processes.
Lead the SIOP Demand Reviews; prepare all data and metrics for review, identify gaps and scenarios that must be presented; guide final decision making on open items and trade-offs, and prepare escalations for executive review where appropriate.
Translate demand plans to a 3- to 18-month supply horizon as part of an input to the monthly Executive SIOP while optimizing customer delivery and inventory levels
Collaborate with Material Managers to generate recommendations to solve capacity issues and support long term sales demand
Measure, analyze and build reporting for key SIOP supply metrics, while monitoring adherence to key performance indicators (KPIs)
Manage long-term capacity views with scenario planning, being able to identify constraints and escalate exceptions for business consideration with the suggestion of possible scenarios and solutions.
Provide regular updates on supply status, risks and opportunities to all key internal partners
Will be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned.