Sr. Manager, FSP NA Demand & Supply Planning

North America Demand & Supply Planning Manager

The North America Demand & Supply Planning Manager serves as the functional leader for demand planning, supply planning, finished goods inventory performance, and third‑party product supplier scheduling across the North America region. This role is responsible for meeting customer demand through manufacturing, supplier, and distribution network capabilities while ensuring optimal service levels, inventory performance, and working capital efficiency.

Lead North America‑based Demand Planning and Supply Planning teams to execute demand forecasting, supply, replenishment, inventory, and supplier scheduling strategies that support customer service, inventory, and financial objectives.

Facilitate the North America demand planning process, including statistical forecasting, demand review facilitation, forecast accuracy improvement, and alignment with Commercial, Product Management, and Finance teams.

Own the regional supply planning process, including supply balancing, constraint management, capacity planning, inventory deployment, replenishment planning, and supply risk mitigation.

Translate demand plans into executable supply plans by aligning manufacturing capacity, supplier capabilities, inventory strategies, and distribution requirements.

Lead monthly Supply Review processes within the IBP framework, ensuring alignment between demand, supply, inventory, financial plans, and operational capabilities.

Drive short‑term execution through active participation in Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE), resolving supply constraints, managing shortages, prioritizing customer requirements, and mitigating business risks.

Develop and implement inventory optimization strategies across manufacturing facilities, distribution centers, and supplier networks to improve service levels, inventory turns, and working capital performance.

Establish and maintain supply planning policies, planning parameters, safety stock methodologies, replenishment strategies, and inventory governance processes.

Partner with Procurement and Supplier Management teams to improve supplier reliability, reduce lead‑time variability, and strengthen continuity of supply.

Lead capacity planning and scenario modeling efforts to evaluate production, sourcing, and inventory alternatives that support growth initiatives and changing market conditions.

Develop action plans and lead teams through implementation of Lean and Continuous Improvement initiatives (Johnson Controls Business Systems) including inventory flow optimization, pull systems, Kanban methodologies, root cause problem solving, and process standardization.

Analyze supply chain performance metrics including inventory turns, days of supply, fill rates, plan attainment, supplier performance, forecast consumption, and customer service levels to drive continuous improvement.

Collaborate across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Procurement, Logistics, Commercial, Finance, and Product Management organizations to remove constraints and improve end‑to‑end supply chain performance.

Lead cross‑functional initiatives involving network optimization, inventory strategy, planning system improvements, supply resiliency, and operational transformation.

Mentor, coach, and develop planning professionals while demonstrating Johnson Controls Winning Behaviors:
We focus on what matters;
We win as one team;
We own the outcome;
We improve every day.

Required Bachelor's degree with majors in Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Logistics, Marketing, Business Administration, Economics, or related field preferred.

Eight (8)+ years of professional experience in Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Materials Management, Inventory Planning, and/or Supply Chain Planning within complex manufacturing environments.

Demonstrated experience leading end‑to‑end planning processes, including forecasting, demand planning, supply planning, inventory optimization, and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) or Integrated Business Planning (IBP).

Supervisory experience coaching, developing, and leading employees to continuously improve performance and build organizational…