Senior Regional Demand Manager

Job Description

At Cooper Vision, a business unit of Cooper Companies, we're driven by a unified purpose of helping people experience life's beautiful moments. We are connected through our shared values - dedicated, innovative, friendly, partners, and do the right thing. As a leading global manufacturer of contact lenses, we are committed to helping improve the way people see each day. Through our diverse lens portfolio, we tackle the toughest vision challenges – including astigmatism, presbyopia, and childhood myopia.

We offer the most complete collection of spherical, toric, and multifocal products available, enabling us to fit 99% of all contact wearers. Learn more at

This role is not eligible for employer-sponsored work authorization now or in the future. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a permanent and ongoing basis without the need for future sponsorship.

This position requires full-time onsite work (5 days per week) in Victor, NY and is not eligible for relocation assistance.

Job Summary:

The Senior Regional Demand Manager role is responsible for working collaboratively and in lockstep with the regional/product Commercial organization to understand the market dynamics, financial drivers, participation strategies and resulting demand forecast. This role drives the ongoing maturation of the S&OP processes with the Commercial teams in collaboration with the supply planning functions. This role should also participate in the product portfolio strategies with the Regional Commercial team.

• Owner of regional product demand forecasts in the planning system which drives the supply planning functions. Works in collaboration with the Marketing teams to understand demand drivers and marketing plans. Works closely with Finance teams to understand financial targets and interpret their influence on the demand plan. Partners with regional president and finance to understand gaps between latest demand plan and top-down financial commitments

• Effectively communicates demand trends, documents key assumptions as well as risks and opportunities. Influences Commercial and Finance teams to drive a more accurate demand plan

• Collaborates with the Commercial / Marketing team in development of the product participation strategies and resulting demand plan. Challenges commercial assumptions, promotions, and market intelligence to ensure unbiased, data-driven forecasts

• Leads demand planning for new product introduction through collaboration with cross-functional teams including but not limited to new product introduction teams, commercial teams, finance teams and supply planning teams.

• Leads alignment with the Marketing teams to understand the regional forecasts and ensures consistency in the demand forecasts. Ensures that the assumptions underlying the forecasts are understood and documented.

• Evaluates key performance indicators for demand actuals vs. plan (Forecast Accuracy MAPE at Lag-2, Bias and Forecast Value Add). Drive projects to improve regional forecast accuracy and bias by driving accuracy of the Statistical forecast in o9 Challenges commercial assumptions, promotions, and market intelligence to ensure unbiased, data-driven forecasts

• Owns the Regional S&OP Demand planning processes. Presents monthly output of regional demand process for significant changes in assumptions/demand plan.

• Identifies improvement opportunities across the Global Supply Chain and Commercial forecast generation process.

• Leads Global Supply Chain continuous improvement initiatives.

• Mentors Demand Planning Specialists to grow their capabilities and skills.

• Acts as a power user and thought leader in o9 demand planning, driving adoption, model improvements, and accuracy of statistical forecasting.

• Utilizes demand segmentation strategies to recommend appropriate forecasting methodologies for each forecast item

• Involvement at varying levels on systems changes globally impacting demand management (Oracle One Vision, o9 Demand Planning, COGNOS, Agile, EPM etc.)

Travel:

• International travel – 25%.
• Domestic travel – 20%

Experience:

• Minimum 10 years of experience within supply chain environment…