Demand Planner II
Austin, TX
Contracted
Experienced
As a leader on this team, you will play a critical role in ensuring operational and financial success for the organization.
You will develop, communicate, and execute end-to- end product demand and supply plans across all channels of distribution in over 80 countries for a current or future product line.
Job Description:
- Forecast demand, inventory, and multi-channel sell through.
- Generate weekly and quarterly supply plans that meet financial objectives. Evaluate risks.
- Plan and implement contingency plans to mitigate.
- Analyze product sales and find opportunities to drive partner groups to appropriate action.
- Partner closely with regional product planning teams to ensure supply plans meet sales requirements.
- Coordinate with Marketing and New Product Operations teams to set launch quantities of new product introductions and to ensure smooth product transitions.
- Collaborate with the global procurement teams to allocate constrained components, ensure raw material inventory targets are achieved, and minimize material obsolescence during product transition.
- Present product updates and recommended actions to the Operations executive management team on a weekly basis.
- Identify improvement opportunities in the product planning process, marshal resources, and drive projects to completion.
- Less than 10% required travel.
- Combine extraordinary analytical capabilities, business savvy, and leadership skills.
- Bring thoughtful influence in a matrixed organization, and be a strong collaborator and communicator.
Key Qualifications:
- Experience presenting to executive management.
- MBA, Masters Degree in a related field, or equivalent work experience, is desired
- Prior experience in fields that demand complex quantitative analysis such as finance or consulting is desired.
- Prior experience in product planning, production control, inventory management, or production/manufacturing operations is a plus.
- Ability to think strategically and execute tactically, persistent attention to detail, and a high level of proficiency in working with numbers.
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