Sr. Demand and S&OP Manager

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About this opportunity:

• Job Location s:
  Plano, TX or Boise,
• Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions Inc. does not sponsor U.S work authorizations for this job position including U.S. immigration filings for initial and/or change of employer paperwork for H-1’s, H-1B1’s, E-3’s, O-1’s, and TN’s. Ericsson also does not hire F-1’s working on CPT or EAD for this position.

Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions is a team of authentic, hard-working, and innovative people driven by a shared vision to Connect Beyond the limits of wired networks. We help customers —big and small, across industries and around the world — utilize LTE and 5G cellular technology toconnect people, places, and things, anywhere. We’re at the forefront of the Wireless WAN and 5G —the next big waves in networking — and we remain as hungry and humble as the day we started.

Ifyou’re hungry to be part of something big, come join us.

• Manage demand planning and forecasting for purchasing to ensure an uninterrupted supply of products for global customers
• Partner with Sales and Marketing to understand historical sales, market trends, seasonality,product mix, sales events, marketing promotions, and other factors which influence the forecast
• Manage key stakeholders by communicating realistic and accurate demand plans based on statistical modeling
• Drive consensus between cross-functional groups and leaders.
• Effectively identify demand patterns, changes in trend, and drivers of product demand
• Develop and drive continuous improvements to forecasting models, demand forecasting techniques, and methods by performing root-cause analysis
• Successfully identify risks and opportunities in the demand plan, escalates and communicates appropriately
• Work with Supply Planning and Sales stakeholders to shape demand and optimize business performance
• Provide quantitative analysis that drives forecast and volatility improvements across the business
• Facilitate regular reviews of forecast accuracy results across the business
• Effectively adapt communication of data, insights, statistical modeling, and market trends tovarious audiences
• Utilize best practices in technology and processes to enable an effective demand planning function

• Manage the global S&OP demand process for all products in collaboration with Sales, Finance &Supply Chain
• Collaborate across the organization to ensure that the appropriate data is available and accurate to be reviewed at the S&OP process meetings
• Prepare all data and metrics for demand-related S&OP meetings and reviews. Identify gapsand scenarios that will be presented. Guide final decision-making on open items including trade-offs and risk mitigation proposals
• Provide ad hoc analysis to support decision-making by Supply Chain, Operations, Finance,Sales, Marketing, and Executive leadership

• SKU level demand planning to incorporate weekly and monthly reporting of key performance indicators for the product transitions by collaborating with Product Management, Engineering,and Supply Planning leadership
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, and monitor progress of product milestones for on-time completion. Drive continuous improvement in processes
• Develop internal tools to make SKU transition demand planning models sustainable andscalable
• Manage the analysis of hardware lifecycle information to create a HW ramp up/ramp down planto optimize inventory & fulfill customer requirements
• Support the analysis for Excess & Obsolete inventory, root causes, and process improvements

• Will play a key role in identifying, implementing, and integrating systems, solutions, and processes to improve business and operational processes, reduce costs, improve businessKPIs, and achieve organizational targets
• Proficient…