Senior Demand Planner

## Senior Demand Planner Apply:
Addison, TX:
Full time:
Posted Yesterday:
JRAcumed LLCAs a part of the global industrial organization Marmon Holdings—which is backed by Berkshire Hathaway—you’ll be doing things that matter, leading at every level, and winning a better way. We’re committed to making a positive impact on the world, providing you with diverse learning and working opportunities, and fostering a culture where everyone’s empowered to be their best.
** Job Scope
** The Sr Demand Planner will be responsible for the end-to-end monthly Consensus Demand Planning process including driving collaboration globally across multiple functions within the organization & with external partners.  Using KPI metrics, statistical models, and market analysis, the Senior Demand Planner will evaluate submitted forecasts and assess how proposed demand events may impact sales volume.
** Responsibilities
* ** Constructs the multi-tiered Demand Planning process and working cross-functionally within our Business Unit (BU) and Sales Geography structures.
* Develops and maintains a rolling 24-month baseline demand forecast leveraging statistical analysis and cross functional inputs.
* Documents and creates scenario planning for future initiatives (NPI) and state of the business including opportunity/risk assumptions, E&O, and cannibalization.
* Achieves consensus demand plan between sales, marketing, finance, and supply through a demand planning process monthly review.
* Collaborates with key Demand-side stakeholders for inputs in a manner that ensures their tasks are intuitive, so that little to no training is required for success, and streamlined, so that it takes little time.
* Manages Commercial, Sales and Financial stakeholders. Coaches and mentors BU Leaders, Sales, Marketing (Product Management) and key Customers (Distributors) in Demand Planning and Demand Control/Execution processes to drive accountability, accuracy and stability.
* Leads the Demand Planning discussions at multiple monthly Consensus Meetings and the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Demand Review.
* Own the formal handoff of the approved consensus demand plan to Supply Planning, ensuring planners understand significant forecast changes, demand assumptions, upside/downside scenarios, customer priorities, launch requirements, and risks requiring supply response.
* Proactively identify and manage Excess & Obsolete inventory risk by monitoring inventory exposure, months of supply, forecast consumption, demand deterioration, product lifecycle changes, discontinuations, and NPI-related cannibalization.
* Keep detailed records, generate reports, and develop presentations to support evaluation of Demand Plan performance, improvement efforts/problem solving and Demand shaping initiatives.
* Owns and manages KPIs including eliminating Demand Plan bias, reduce error and smooth Demand volatility while comparing forecast to financial budgets and explaining differences.
** Qualifications
* ** Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply and Logistics or related field required or 8 years of combined Demand Planning in a manufacturing environment with a track record of increasing responsibilities or equivalent combination of education and experience.
* Experience with in a monthly Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)/Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process.
* Experience in regulated industry manufacturing, preferably med-device, to proactively anticipate and address potential issues and exceptions.
* APICS/ASCM/IBF certification or Operations/Industrial Management education/certification a plus.
* Proven proficiency with working with data from ERPs (SAP(IBP), Kinaxys, Logility, O9 or similar experience demand planning software preferred), Microsoft Office (proficient…