The Senior Demand Planner is responsible for the consensus demand plan for their assigned responsibility and accountable for the UWI Global consensus demand plan. The consensus demand plan requires collaboration and alignment with Sales, Marketing, and Product Management Key Stakeholders, including senior leaders. The consensus demand plan is measured based on quality: accuracy, bias, and change frequency. Metric targets will be established as a team considering past performance and process maturity. Demand Planning is a young process, so balancing process and systems maturity improvement and plan quality will be important to this role's success. Accurate and timely plans are critical for our internal cross functional partners, suppliers, B2B customers, and riders. This position reports to the SIOP Leader currently but will move to a vertical structure for promotional opportunity and skillset growth as the process maturity baseline is set and the company grows.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
Creates the monthly consensus demand plan for their assigned parts.
Review plan quality metrics and gather error root cause and lessons learned to apply to plan.
Ensures product life cycle master data is accurate.
Ensures other key planning master data is created and accurate.
Review history and apply a basic statistical model for organic baseline.
Run your Customer Demand Planning meetings to review demand plan and gain consensus from Sales, Marketing, and Product Management
Create necessary business intelligence to communicate the Consensus Demand Plan to all key stakeholders.
Demand Consensus Meeting
Prepare data, metrics, and other materials for the meeting.
Lead the monthly meeting.
Ensure the demand planner executes the meeting document control: agenda, minutes, and actions on time.
Sales and Operations Execution Meeting
Participate in the Sales and Operations Execution Meetings for the regions and led by the supply planning team.
Provide analytics and demand intelligence to support purchasing commitments.
Partner with supply planning team for any large change needed urgently in lead time to obtain agreement prior to system change.
Continuous Improvement Projects
Key thought leader to Plan for Every Part Master Data Standardization and Governance
Business leader for system improvements, including a Demand Planning system selection.
Participate in kaizen events, focused on process improvements.
Supervisory Responsibilities
There are no supervisory responsibilities with this position.
Education and/or Experience
degree or 5+ years as a Demand Planner required.
of Business Administration (MBA) or 3+ years as a Demand Planner required.
in outdoor wheeled or battery-operated products is preferred but not required.
Interpersonal and Professional Skills:
Strategic and tactical communication and problem solving with a hands-on approach.
Excellent listening skills to understand problem statements from our internal key stakeholders.
Basic problem-solving skills to identify the root cause of a problem.
Change management and emotional intelligence skills to work through process and system changes in an organization.
Language Skills
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret standard supply chain reports and dashboards. Ability to respond effectively to sensitive inquiries or complaints. Ability to make effective and persuasive speeches and presentations on controversial or complex topics to senior leadership.
Computer Skills
Microsoft Office intermediate skills in Excel- Pivot tables, vlookups, intermediate formulas like standard deviation and forecasting
Microsoft Office basic skills - PowerPoint
Previous experience in an ERP environment - JDE Enterprise One ideal
Previous experience in Business Intelligence Tools - Reports and Dashboards
Previous experience in an Advanced Planning and/or a Demand Planning System a plus
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.