Demand Planning Manager

Xylem is a Fortune 500 global water solutions company dedicated to advancing sustainable impact and empowering the people who make water work every day. As a leading water technology company with 23,000 employees operating in over 150 countries, Xylem is at the forefront of addressing the world's most critical water challenges. We invite passionate individuals to join our team, dedicated to exceeding customer expectations through innovative and sustainable solutions.

• Responsible to consolidate an 18-month rolling Demand & margin/mix plan for the Analytics segment in Americas and Europe
• Represent the Demand Planning function in the M&CS SIOP process.
• Lead monthly Pre-DRM and DRM.
• Coordinates the demand planning process, critiques & analyses, and provides integrated understanding.
• Partner with commercial and finance teams across segment divisions to gain consensus on demand plan and alignment between SIOP and financial planning processes.
• Maintain list of assumptions, collected via the multiple stakeholders in the process.
• Facilitates strategic decisions on issue resolution & gap closing.
• Provide summary of sensitivities, vulnerabilities, opportunities to relevant KPIs.
• Continuous improvement of Demand Planning process, actively searching for opportunities to streamline existing processes.
• Facilitates data collection and reporting.
• Ensures consistency with Xylem process standards for Demand Planning across the segment.
• Strategy Coordinate M&CS Demand Planning strategic reviews including systems and related processes.
• Benchmarks Xylem against competitors on Operational KPIs.
• Research market conditions and customer segmentation to support business case development.
• Project Management & Other functions.
• Lead supply chain projects in sales, manufacturing or distribution as assigned.
• Crosstrain, Backup and temporarily replace members of the SIOP group as required.

• Operating Income:
  Responsibility for sites with annual COGS of ~483M USD

Effectively communicate with commercial teams, manufacturing sites, sourcing, sales, distribution centers and finance functions at all staff levels to ensure goal fulfillment for Xylem. Can lead and direct a change process and be eager to make a difference. In a professional way represent Xylem to external suppliers / customers.

Actively search for new or more optimal processes to improve forecast accuracy, reduce logistic cost, optimize service and inventory. Understand the supply chain planning industry trends and effectively communicate to drive change, input to strategy.

Actively search information about potential planning and market issues.

As per DoA.

• Internal:
  Product Management, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance, Procurement, Executive
• External:
  Suppliers, Customers, Peer Companies, Consultants

• Has bachelors degree (e.g. supply chain, finance)
• Minimum 5+ years relevant supply chain experience for a Global international company
• Oliver Wight / APICS Certification (or comparable)
• Demonstrated Leadership & Strategic development
• Excellent English skills and other languages is a plus
• Knowledge and experience of lean manufacturing, CI, and/or six sigma tools & concepts
• Excellent analytical and presentation skills
• Highly proficient in Excel and ERP planning systems
• Ability to translate business and financial goals into action plans
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels from manufacturing floor to Executive
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize and work in a rapidly changing stressful environment
• Change agent and ability to think creatively and look forward

• Represent Xylem in a professional manner and maintain…