
Senior Manager- Demand Planning
- Trumbull, CT
- $120,000-165,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Selects, leads and manages the team of demand planners across the company
- Ensures the appropriate process structure, inputs, outputs, reviews, and cadence of demand planning globally to deliver company demand plans on a monthly cycle
- Drives the appropriate metrics, KPI's, and exception management systems to ensure the next demand plan is more credible than the last
- Continuously optimizes the demand planning tools to provide robust statistical models, data integrity, and outputs at appropriate hierarchy levels (regions & products)
- Drives engagement and participation of consensus demand review and other S&OP meetings, including consolidation and distribution of presentation materials, key decisions, demand plan publish, meeting notes/action items
- Aligns product management and supply chain stakeholders to ensure successful new product introduction and phase-out of discontinued products
- Drives Financial partnership to ensure quality financial forecasts, including avg. selling price, mix and margin to ensure monthly financial realization
- Create and maintain documentation and Standard Operating Procedures for demand forecasting, planning processes, and systems. Ensure demand planning processes meet legal requirements and standards
- Domestic and international travel will be a part of this role, ranging from 10-20%
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, as well as the ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to interact effectively with senior management
- Strong business acumen and problem-solving capabilities, with direct, applied experience in supply chain
- Ability to successfully create clear actionable objectives and facilitate career planning for team members
- Understanding of end-to-end planning and supply chain management
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Prolonged sitting in front of a computer
- Mix of face to face and virtual meetings
- 10 years+ of relevant supply chain management experience. Specific experience in demand planning or in business forecasting area required, ideally in the Medical Device, Biotechnology, or Pharma industries
- 5 years+ of experience leading team(s)
- Advanced planning tool experience and/or implementation (e.g. O9/ Kinaxis Rapid Response/ APO)
- Minimum: Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain management or relevant field
- Preferred: Master's degree in business or supply chain management
- Preferred: APICS or similar professional accreditation