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.

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The Demand Planning Manager is responsible for developing, maintaining, and communicating the demand forecast for Regal Rexnord industrial motor product lines across multiple regions, channels, and customer segments. This high-level individual contributor role owns the demand signal and partners closely with Sales, Product Management, Finance, Operations, Manufacturing, Procurement, and Supply Chain to translate market and customer inputs into an accurate, actionable demand plan.

The role is critical to improving forecast accuracy, reducing forecast bias, supporting supply continuity, and enabling the business to balance customer service, production capacity, inventory investment, and working capital objectives.

Key Responsibilities

Demand Planning & Forecasting

• 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.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• 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.

S&OP / SIOP Support

• 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.

Inventory & Supply Chain Alignment

• 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.

Product Lifecycle Support

• 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.

Analytics, Reporting & Continuous Improvement

• 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.

Qualifications

Required

• 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.

Preferred

• 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.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Coverage
• Spending accounts (HSA, Health Care FSA and Dependent Care FSA)
• Paid Time Off and Holidays
• 401k Retirement Plan with Matching Employer Contributions
• Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
• Paid Leaves
• Tuition Assistance

About Regal Rexnord

Regal Rexnord is a publicly held global industrial manufacturer with 30,000 associates around the world who help create a better tomorrow by providing sustainable solutions that power, transmit and control motion. The Company’s electric motors and air moving subsystems provide the power to create motion. A portfolio of highly engineered power transmission components and subsystems efficiently transmits motion to power industrial applications. The Company’s automation offering, comprised of controls, actuators, drives, and precision motors, controls motion in applications ranging from factory automation to precision control in surgical tools.

The Company’s end markets benefit from meaningful secular demand tailwinds, and include factory automation, food & beverage, aerospace, medical, data center, warehouse, alternative energy, residential and commercial buildings, general industrial, construction, metals and mining, and agriculture.

Regal Rexnord is comprised of three operating segments: Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions, and Automation & Motion Control. Regal Rexnord has offices and manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide. For more information, including a copy of our Sustainability Report, visit RegalRexnord.com.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Regal Rexnord is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, ancestry, national origin, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status (unless required by the applicable law or government contract), disability or protected veteran status or any other status or characteristic protected by law. Regal Rexnord is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are committed to building a team that represents diverse and inclusive backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.  If you’d like to view a copy of the company’s affirmative action plan for protected veterans/individuals with disabilities or policy statement, please email [email protected]. If you have a disability and you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to submit an online application, please e-mail [email protected].

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