Senior Demand Planner

Acumed LLC

As a part of the global industrial organization Marmon Holdings—which is backed by Berkshire Hathaway—you’ll be doing things that matter, leading at every level, and winning a better way. We’re committed to making a positive impact on the world, providing you with diverse learning and working opportunities, and fostering a culture where everyone’s empowered to be their best.

Job Scope

The Sr Demand Planner will be responsible for the end-to-end monthly Consensus Demand Planning process including driving collaboration globally across multiple functions within the organization & with external partners.  Using KPI metrics, statistical models, and market analysis, the Senior Demand Planner will evaluate submitted forecasts and assess how proposed demand events may impact sales volume. 

 

Responsibilities

• Constructs the multi-tiered Demand Planning process and working cross-functionally within our Business Unit (BU) and Sales Geography structures.
• Develops and maintains a rolling 24-month baseline demand forecast leveraging statistical analysis and cross functional inputs.
• Documents and creates scenario planning for future initiatives (NPI) and state of the business including opportunity/risk assumptions, E&O, and cannibalization.
• Achieves consensus demand plan between sales, marketing, finance, and supply through a demand planning process monthly review.
• Collaborates with key Demand-side stakeholders for inputs in a manner that ensures their tasks are intuitive, so that little to no training is required for success, and streamlined, so that it takes little time.
• Manages Commercial, Sales and Financial stakeholders. Coaches and mentors BU Leaders, Sales, Marketing (Product Management) and key Customers (Distributors) in Demand Planning and Demand Control/Execution processes to drive accountability, accuracy and stability.
• Leads the Demand Planning discussions at multiple monthly Consensus Meetings and the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Demand Review.
• Own the formal handoff of the approved consensus demand plan to Supply Planning, ensuring planners understand significant forecast changes, demand assumptions, upside/downside scenarios, customer priorities, launch requirements, and risks requiring supply response.
• Proactively identify and manage Excess & Obsolete inventory risk by monitoring inventory exposure, months of supply, forecast consumption, demand deterioration, product lifecycle changes, discontinuations, and NPI-related cannibalization.
• Keep detailed records, generate reports, and develop presentations to support evaluation of Demand Plan performance, improvement efforts/problem solving and Demand shaping initiatives.
• Owns and manages KPIs including eliminating Demand Plan bias, reduce error and smooth Demand volatility while comparing forecast to financial budgets and explaining differences.

 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply and Logistics or related field required or 8 years of combined Demand Planning in a manufacturing environment with a track record of increasing responsibilities or equivalent combination of education and experience. 
• Experience within a monthly Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)/Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process. 
• Experience in regulated industry manufacturing, preferably med-device, to proactively anticipate and address potential issues and exceptions.
• APICS/ASCM/IBF certification or Operations/Industrial Management education/certification a plus.
• Proven proficiency with working with data from ERPs (SAP(IBP), Kinaxys, Logility, O9 or similar experience demand planning software preferred), Microsoft Office (proficient with Excel and Powerpoint), Forecast Models, and Inventory Strategies.
• Ability to work independently and manage complex problems and projects and collaborate on business intelligence (PowerBI, Tableau, Qlikview, SAP Analytics Cloud preferred) and data solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and strong time management skills needed to multi-task in a fast-paced environment. 
• Ability to read and speak English sufficiently to read, understand and complete all paperwork. 
• Strong analytical, organizational, decision making, presentation skills, and time management skills including statistics, forecasting and forecasting methods with an understanding of financial and operational implications.

 

Following receipt of a conditional offer of employment, candidates will be required to complete additional job-related screening processes as permitted or required by applicable law.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to their membership in any protected class. If you require any reasonable accommodation to complete your application or any part of the recruiting process, please email your request to [email protected], and please be sure to include the title and the location of the position for which you are applying.