Demand Planning Manager

Work Model:
Work Model:
You'll work in a hybrid model, onsite at your designated Regal Rexnord location at least 3 days per week (Monday-Thursday), with flexibility to work remotely up to 2 days, including Friday.

• Develop and maintain monthly, quarterly, and annual demand forecasts for industrial motor product lines across regions, channels, and customers.
• Analyze historical sales trends, market signals, customer demand patterns, seasonality, and business intelligence to improve forecast quality.
• Build statistical forecasts and incorporate commercial, product, and operational inputs into a consensus demand plan.
• Evaluate forecast assumptions, identify demand drivers, and communicate risks, opportunities, and changes to stakeholders.

• Partner with Sales, Product Management, Finance, Operations, Manufacturing, Procurement, and Supply Chain to align demand plans with business objectives.
• Facilitate demand review discussions and drive consensus forecasting without direct authority.
• Communicate forecast changes, assumptions, and business impacts in a clear, actionable manner.

• Serve as a key contributor to the monthly S&OP / SIOP process.
• Prepare demand review materials, forecast performance summaries, and executive-level updates.
• Collaborate with supply planning teams to understand constraints and reflect supply realities in planning assumptions.

• Partner with production planning, procurement, and inventory teams to support supply continuity and inventory optimization.
• Monitor demand-driven inventory requirements and recommend actions that balance service levels, inventory turns, and working capital.
• Identify demand variability risks and recommend mitigation actions.

• Support new product introductions, product transitions, promotions, and end-of-life planning.
• Partner with Product Management to quantify demand impacts from launch, phase-in, phase-out, and customer conversion activity.
• Monitor adoption rates, volume transitions, and demand shifts across product families, channels, and customer segments.

• Develop and maintain forecasting models, reporting tools, dashboards, and executive readouts.
• Prepare analysis on demand trends, forecast accuracy, forecast bias, inventory health, service performance, and capacity risk.
• Perform root cause analysis of forecast misses and demand variability.
• Identify opportunities to improve forecasting methods, planning cadence, data quality, and system utilization.

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Operations, Finance, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in demand planning, forecasting, supply chain planning, or S&OP / SIOP.
• Experience in manufacturing, industrial products, motors, automation, power transmission, or engineered equipment industries.
• Strong analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills with the ability to convert data into actionable recommendations.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel capability and experience working with ERP / MRP systems such as SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, or equivalent systems.
• Experience with forecasting and planning tools.
• Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive alignment without direct authority.

• APICS CPIM, CSCP, IBF, or equivalent supply chain certification.
• Experience participating in or supporting a mature S&OP / SIOP process.
• Knowledge of industrial motor markets, OEM channels, distribution networks, and aftermarket demand patterns.
• Experience with Power BI, Tableau, Snowflake, or advanced analytics platforms.
• Experience with demand sensing and scenario planning methods.
• Exposure to multi-site manufacturing and global supply chain environments.

Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States without requiring company sponsorship to obtain or keep U.S. work authorization.

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Coverage
• Spending accounts (HSA, Health Care FSA and Dependent Care FSA)
• Paid Time Off and Holidays
• 401k Reti