Demand Planner III

Overview

The Demand Planner III is responsible for the development and maintenance of the demand plan of assigned finished goods, considering product life cycle management, while balancing network demands with supply capabilities to maintain target stock levels and support on time shipments to customers. The position works closely with scheduling & planning functions, and distribution to align production plans with company goals connected to inventory management and maintaining low levels of obsolescence.

This position supports our US Air Division
, based in Lewisville, TX
.

• Proactively identify supply constraints and propose solutions
• Monitor inventory levels and coordinate inventory pre-builds with Manufacturing to compensate for periods of capacity limitations
• Generate plan on a regular basis and communicate potential inventory or customer service gaps or risks to cross functional partners
• Work with the Supply Chain to identify opportunities for improvement related to capacity planning, productivity and plan attainment metrics through Continuous Improvement efforts as well as planning system parameters
• Leads cross-functional product, customer, and project calls to communicate, align, and optimize capacity and inventory plans with operations execution
• Evaluates history, working with operations to establish opportunities to increase production on installed equipment to address growth and new business wins
• Leads the Portfolio Management and Demand Planning consensus process including taking into account inputs from statistical models, sales and marketing insights, and other analyses while collaborating with cross functional teams including commercial, product management and supply chain. This position will also be responsible for managing relevant measures (KPIs) to help drive better forecast accuracy and lower error rate
• Review, scrub and analyze the forecast through scrutiny of variances, historical sales trends including rolling averages, year over year data, research of demand drivers, and other customer and market related changes
• Ensure that the agreed consensus forecast is passed accurately and at the appropriate level of detail to the production planning systems, on a timely basis
• Escalate any demand and supply chain related issues for awareness and action using the correct sense of urgency
• Ability to work cross-functionally and adapt to evolving needs of Planning and Business
• Manage various ad-hoc reports from large, complex data sets using Excel
• Review and revise production and fulfillment plans as required by changes in the sales forecast or manufacturing schedules
• Leads and owns master data in support of efficiency and accuracy in plans
• Improvement and automation of supporting processes
• Product life cycle management
• Other duties as required

• B.S or B.A. preferably in Operations Management, Accounting or Finance
• 5+ years of experience in demand planning and sales forecasting
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and a high degree of comfort learning and working with networked computer systems.
• Excellent analytic skill
• Strong systematic problem-solving ability
• Superior written and verbal communication
• APICS certification a plus
• HVAC experience not necessary but a plus

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