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What We Offer

• Competitive salary and bonus
• Paid vacation/holidays/sick time
• Comprehensive benefits package including 401K, medical, dental, and vision care starting day one!
• Developmental opportunities
• Encouraging and collaborative team environment
• Dedication to safety through our Zero Harm policy

What you will do

The Demand & Supply Planning Lead will be responsible for overseeing the Demand & Supply Planning processes to support S&OE and S&OP processes for our Residential HVAC business. The Lead will provide guidance and support to the current Demand and Supply Planners on their day to day / monthly tasks and deliverables, but also have the ability to step in any of their functions to do the work when necessary. The lead will also support the Director of S&OP in summarizing insights and preparing executive presentations, as well as being a part of and leading presentations in certain reviews.

How you will do it

Demand Planning: You will work with the team to…

• Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop statistical forecast models, and evaluate forecast results
• Interact with sales, marketing, and finance to develop a consensus and forecast event drivers across categories and customers in order to align to and support financial targets (AOP)
• Utilize both top down / bottoms up forecasting strategies to align cross-functional planning across the business unit
• Documents and retains history of demand planning assumptions in order to hold cross functional teams accountable for decisions made and resulting impacts
• Use and maintain forecast models within Logility Demand Optimization module
• Understand how environmental factors, market dynamics, competitors and internal programs or overrides generate the need to adjust the statistical forecast
• Maintain metrics/scorecards on KPI’s, including forecast accuracy, forecast bias, etc
• Track demand consumption and utilizes insights to improve forward looking forecasts
• Drive root cause analysis to understand demand plan error in prior periods and implement continuous improvement initiatives
• Work with PMO and PLM in developing analysis/timeline/for demand forecast phase-in for new product launches, and phase-out for EOL products, execute in the demand forecast, and monitor/react regularly due to changes in the program schedule and other launch assumptions

Supply Planning: You will work with the team to…

• Analyze and utilize business data for the creation of a comprehensive supply plan evaluating multiple scenarios & factors to determine the best fit based on the organization’s long-term strategy & financial targets
• Work with the manufacturing plant to define rough-cut capacity plans, level load, & identify constraints in order to support the demand forecast
• Track execution, identify demand and supply gaps to S&OP plan, and drive balanced demand / supply resolution, in coordination with impacted functions.
• Define inventory entitlement and safety stock levels for your products based on product segmentation strategies (ABC) in order to support the customer, market, and business needs
• Maintain accurate replenishment signals to assure a smooth flow of materials to the manufacturing floor and enable operational efficiency
• Monitor, publish, and work cross functionally to reduce product LTs
• Support Demand planning and Product management in NPI & phase in/phase out processes

S&OE: You will work with the team to…

• Support near term planning process across 1–3-month time horizon by monitoring production attainment & optimization in order to hit revenue targets
• Proactively identify and escalate risks in missed commitments, forecast consumption, service levels, and inventory gap-to-target to deliver against the consensus demand plan and opportunities to improve delivery
• Coordinate with Manufacturing, Production Schedulers, Quality and Engineering to assure Supply can meet customer demands as planned

Other responsibilities:

• Define and incorporate new process and best practices as the business needs evolve
• Maintains effective working relationship and communication with all departments

What we look for

• 4 year degree in Supply Chain Management or Business, + 8-10 years of supply chain experience, including at least 4 years of direct SIOP experience
• Extremely comfortable with manipulating data in excel, strong analytical skills, and ability to apply basic statistical concepts
• Ability to recognize trends within data and translate that back into a demand & supply plan narrative
• Familiar with a variety of the manufacturing concepts, practices, procedures
• Strong understanding of E2E supply chain, potential tradeoffs, and impact on short term execution soft skills
• Has a mindset of continuous improvement and always looks for more optimal and efficient ways to execute and improve on workload
• Ability to lead through influence and communicate across diverse group of stakeholders
• Experience with end-to-end supply chain planning tools and forecasting systems (ERP (SAP/Oracle), Planning Tools (Logility preferred, Kinaxis, etc)
• HVAC Industry experience preferred

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