Demand Planner II

At BSH, People Matter. Bring your unique skills, capabilities, and experiences to our dynamic teams where your contributions will drive our innovation culture. We strive to be a workplace that values people and supports opportunities for continuous professional and personal growth. As a leading manufacturer of home appliance brands Bosch, Gaggenau, and Thermador, we prioritize having a consumer centric mindset and creating positive experiences for the consumer throughout all interactions with our products and services.

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Irvine, CA / Full-time

Responsible for coordination with a team of Demand Planners who are responsible for sales forecasting, bottom up and top down, collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment with key customers, forecast error, finished goods production planning, deployment and control of inventory management throughout our central and regional distribution network. This person ensures our finished goods inventory levels remain within business plan targets as well meeting or exceeding key SCM metrics such as customer order fulfillment rates.

• Forecasting:
  Analyze historical sales figures; work closely with Sales and Product Marketing to determine fluctuations in sales and promotional activity; make necessary adjustments as needed based on current sales trends.
• Regulate short-term factory production based on sales forecast; make adjustments based on any deviation or fluctuation in sales (i.e. independent requirements management).
• Coordinate with factory on scheduling and prioritizing production, expediting parts if needed, and increasing the production capacity when necessary.
• Create purchase orders to outside suppliers; monitors their production and shipping fulfillments.
• Adhere to a 92% customer order/delivery fulfillment rate; monitor incoming goods and oversee allocation to the customer
• Create and maintain daily and weekly reports (sales, back order, inventory availability, etc.) and situational reports to aid colleagues from factories, Sales and Product Marketing.
• Meet the expectations of major functional departments such as:
• Sales:
  High delivery fulfillment
• Supply Network Planning:
  Accuracy of forecast at each RDC for inventory deployment; ensure production plans are
• Product Marketing:
  Monthly forecast alignment; successful product phase in/out planning
• Controlling:
  Provide monthly invoice forecasts; ensure forecast is within an acceptable tolerance to business plan
• Sales Support:
  Effectively communicate product availability dates
• Logistics:
  Transmission of RDC inventory requirements via the forecast signal
• Responsible for the performance of the operational bottom up sales forecast at a SKU and regional distribution center level
• Track and maintain phase in and phase out activities
• Assists in the management of safety stock parameters for all regional distribution centers
• Effectively absorbs job activities of other Demand Planners to cover vacations, sick days, leave of absence, etc.
• Create/initiate business analytics and proposals/recommendations to various teams
• Drives process improvements
• Performs all other duties as assigned

$72K - $96K

Annual Bonus

3%

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At BSH, People Matter. Bring your unique skills, capabilities, and experiences to our dynamic teams where your contributions will drive our innovation culture. We strive to be a workplace that values people and supports opportunities for continuous professional and personal growth. As a leading manufacturer of home…