Demand Planning Senior Manager

We’re looking for people who put their innovation to work to advance our success – and their own. Join an organization that ensures a more secure world through connecting and protecting our customers with inventive electrical solutions.

• Lead the Data Solutions demand planning function and develop demand planners into business-facing analysts who challenge assumptions, quantify risk, and translate commercial inputs into an actionable plan.
• Lead the monthly Demand Review operating process, including prework, data readiness, assumption review, scenario development, consensus building, decision capture, and handoff into Supply Review and financial reconciliation.
• Create and maintain the approved unconstrained demand plan across product families, value streams, customers, programs, and time horizons, clearly separating firm backlog and orders from forecast and opportunity assumptions.
• Partner with Sales, Product Management, Program Management, Finance, SIOP, Supply Chain, and Operations to reconcile differing demand views and establish one agreed planning signal.
• Establish forecast governance, hierarchy, segmentation, and analytical methods appropriate for a rapidly growing make-to-order and configure-to-order portfolio, including standard-product demand where history is limited.
• Own demand assumptions, risks, and opportunities, including phase-in/phase-out, new-product ramps, customer timing changes, upside/downside scenarios, cancellations, and forecast-consumption and time-fence logic.
• Drive demand-change control so material or customer changes are visible, quantified, traceable, and communicated before they cascade into the master schedule, material plan, capacity plan, or customer commitments.
• Improve forecast accuracy and bias through root-cause analysis at the level where decisions are made, distinguishing structural forecast error from timing shifts, one-time program moves, and growth assumptions.
• Create demand analytics connecting units, mix, revenue, backlog, forecast, and opportunity pipeline so leadership understands both the base plan and plausible outcome range.
• Ensure new products, lifecycle transitions, site transfers, and end-of-life events are reflected in the demand plan with explicit timing and assumptions.
• Partner with Master Scheduling and Supply Planning to translate the demand signal into the MPS and constrained supply process without creating competing plans.
• Build standard work, role clarity, planning calendars, data definitions, scorecards, and continuous-improvement routines that mature demand planning as the business scales.

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Finance, Operations, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years experience in demand planning, forecasting, SIOP/IBP, supply chain planning, commercial planning, or related manufacturing-planning roles is highly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading a demand review or consensus forecasting process across Sales, Product, Finance, and Supply Chain.
• Strong analytical capability with forecast accuracy and bias, segmentation, scenario analysis, backlog and pipeline interpretation, and financial/unit reconciliation.
• Working knowledge of ERP/MRP and planning systems.
• Advanced degree and APICS CPIM/CSCP, IBF, or equivalent planning certification.
• Experience in high-growth, make-to-order, configure-to-order, engineered-product, or limited-history environments.
• Experience with JDE, Power BI, advanced Excel, or comparable planning and analytics tools.

• A dynamic global reach with diverse operations around the world that will stretch your abilities, provide plentiful career opportunities, and allow you to make an impact every day
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