Supply Demand Planner II

We are looking for a dynamic, highly motivated Supply Demand Planner for our Americas Operations group. As a member of the Supply Demand Management (SDM) team, you will join a highly influential group, challenged to scale at the pace of the company’s overall growth. As a leader on this team, you will play a critical role in ensuring operational and financial success for the organization. You will develop, communicate, and execute end-to-end product demand and supply plans across all channels of distribution in over 80 countries for a current or future product line.

Description: 

• Forecast demand, inventory, and multi-channel sell-through.
• Generate weekly and quarterly.
• Supply plans that meet financial objectives.
• Evaluate risks.
• Plan and implement contingency plans to mitigate.
• Analyze product sales and find opportunities to drive partner groups to appropriate action.
• Partner closely with regional product planning teams to ensure supply plans meet sales requirements.
• Coordinate with Marketing and New Product Operations teams to set launch quantities of new product introductions and to ensure smooth product transitions.
• Collaborate with the global procurement teams to allocate constrained components, ensure raw material inventory targets are achieved, and minimize material obsolescence during product transition.
• Present product updates and recommended actions to the Operations executive management team on a weekly basis.
• Identify improvement opportunities in the product planning process, marshal resources, and drive projects to completion.
• Less than 10% required travel.

Key Qualifications: 

• Combination of extraordinary analytical capabilities, business savvy, and leadership skills.
• Influence in a matrixed organization, be a strong collaborator and communicator.
• Experience presenting to executive management.
• MBA, Master’s Degree in a related field, or equivalent work experience, is desired.
• Prior experience in fields that demand complex quantitative analysis such as finance or consulting is desired.
• Prior experience in product planning, production control, inventory management, or production/manufacturing operations is a plus.
• Ability to think strategically and execute tactically, persistent attention to detail, and a high level of proficiency in working with numbers.