Senior Manager, Technical Demand Planning

Essential Functions:

Leadership:

• Build and lead the Demand Planning COE, and indirectly manage the brand demand planners
• Establish a clear vision and strategy enabling the brands to deliver on their goals
• Partner with key stakeholders to foster a collaborative working environment that embraces continuous improvement and ownership
• Support and mentor brand demand planners
• Engage in selling and influencing to build coalitions up, down, and across the organization in the pursuit of delivering business outcomes
• Promote and celebrate team wins!

• Create and standardize demand planning processes, tools, and methodologies
  • Enable scenario planning and risk management to provide leadership with options and trade-offs
• Automate processes and embrace manage by exception approach to enable planners to focus their time where it matters most
• ork closely with Asset, Maintenance Strategy, and Inventory Control teams to improve accuracy and visibilty to demand signals through the lifecycle
• Collaborate cross-functionally to identify and resolve data quality issues
• Evaluate new data sources and models and their value add to the forecast accuracy
• Identify opportunities to fully leverage planning tool capabiliteis, including statistical, AI and ML.

• Actively promote and champion the S&OP process, ensuring it aligns with organizational goals and is seen as a key driver of successful outcomes.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to foster a culture of ownership for the process and its outcomes.
• Establish disciplined processes to ensure the fundamental pillars of S&OP are in place, manage conflict, and empower ownership

• Develop and benchmark performance measures to track progress and drive continuous improvement (MAPE, WMAPE, Bias, Value Add, Etc)
• Establish Management reporting highlighting KPI tracking and metrix
• Facilitate brand Demand Review, S&OP, and cross-functional meetings

• Scope:
  This role directly enhances operational efficiency and service reliability by ensuring the right technical spare parts are available at the right time and location as efficiently as possible. Problem solving:
  The successful candidate will possess a broad range of technical competencies and problem solving methods to solve complex supply chain challenges, included but not limited to:
  Availability Challenges:
  Ensures critical spare parts are available when needed by improving demand visibility over an extended time horizon. Inventory Inefficiencies:
  Reduces excess and dead stock through successful execution of demand planning, improving working capital utilization. Cross-Functional Misalignment:
  Bridges gaps between departments (e.g., finance, procurement, logistics, technical operations) to enable coordinated planning and execution. Operational Disruptions:
  Facilitates the S&OP process to identify demand and supply gaps, model scenarios, present options to leadership, and guide stakeholders to make decisions. Process Gaps:
  Drives continuous improvement initiatives to streamline planning workflows, enhance forecasting accuracy, and improve responsiveness. Team Capability:
  Builds and transforms the planning team to elevate performance, foster innovation, and support scalable growth.
• Impact:
  Improved Service Reliability:
  Ensures timely availability of critical spare parts, reducing downtime and enhancing operational continuity. Operational Efficiency:
  Streamlines planning processes and drives alignment across departments, improving responsiveness and execution. Strategic Decision Support:
  Provides data-driven insights and scenario modeling to guide leadership in making informed supply chain decisions. Improved Budgeting &…