Demand Planner - Broadband Business Unit

Demand Planner – Broadband Business Unit

AFL manufactures industry-leading fiber optic cable, connectivity and accessories and provides engineering and installation services for some of the largest telecom customers in the world. Our company was founded in 1984 with a single fiber optic cable and today, we manufacture thousands of products, generate an excess of $3B in revenue, and employ approximately 12,000 associates worldwide. At AFL, we recognize that our employees are our greatest asset.

We hire and train each individual, investing in them to ensure success in their careers. With a commitment to professional development and growth, let us connect you to your next career opportunity.

What We Offer:

• Flexible time off policy
• 401K Company match (up to 4% - dollar for dollar)
• Professional development, training, and tuition reimbursement programs
• Excellent medical, dental, vision, and life insurance policy options
• Opportunities for career advancement with an industry leading company!

The Demand Planner – Broadband Business Unit is one of two dedicated demand planners focused exclusively on AFL Product Solutions' Broadband business, spanning its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH), access network, and service provider portfolio. The Broadband demand planning team is collectively responsible for producing a single, reconciled demand signal for the Broadband business that feeds AFL's Integrated Business Planning (IBP) cycle. The team operates within AFL's enterprise demand planning function and follows the standards, methodologies, hierarchies, and governance defined by the Director of Demand Planning.

Reporting to the Director of Demand Planning, each Demand Planner on the team owns the day-to-day generation, maintenance, and publication of unconstrained and consensus demand plans for an assigned slice of the Broadband portfolio (e.g., customer segment, product family, or region). Working in lockstep with peer planners, the team delivers one consistent, reconciled Broadband demand plan each cycle. Business Unit leadership retains accountability for the constrained, consensus demand plan;

the demand planning team is collectively accountable for the quality, consistency, transparency, and governance of the process that produces it.

Key Results (First 12–18 Months)

• Deliver a rolling 36-month unconstrained demand plan for the assigned Broadband portfolio each IBP cycle, on cadence and aligned to enterprise standards and team playbooks.
• Contribute to a single, reconciled Broadband demand signal — "one set of numbers" — used by Supply Review, Integrated Reconciliation Review (IRR), and Management Business Review (M ).
• Achieve measurable improvement in forecast accuracy, bias, and volatility within the assigned portfolio, with documented root-cause learning and corrective actions shared back to the team.
• Stand up and maintain Broadband demand planning dashboards, assumptions logs, and change control artifacts — jointly with peer planners — that enable management-by-exception.
• Embed override governance and Forecast Value Added (FVA) discipline within the Broadband BU planning routine.

Responsibilities:

Demand Plan Ownership & Execution

• Own the end-to-end execution of the assigned Broadband portfolio demand planning cycle in line with the enterprise IBP cadence.
• Generate, refine, and publish statistical and consensus demand plans at the Customer x SKU x Month level.
• Coordinate with peer demand planners on the team to ensure assigned portfolios roll up into a single, reconciled Broadband BU output without double-counting, gaps, or methodology drift.
• Maintain accurate planning hierarchies, segmentation, and master data attributes for the assigned portfolio in coordination with enterprise standards and team norms.
• Produce timely, decision-ready Demand Review pre-reads for the assigned portfolio, contributing to a unified Broadband BU view alongside team peers.

Forecasting & Forecast Quality

• Apply the enterprise statistical and consensus forecasting methodology to the assigned Broadband portfolio, including FTTH build cycles, service provider deployment programs, and channel/distribution demand patterns where applicable.
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