Demand Planner

Electrolux Professional - Charlotte, NC

Full-time

Charlotte, NC

Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing

About the position

As a Demand Planner at Electrolux, you will play a crucial role in managing and developing the organizational demand plan at both the product and channel levels. Your primary responsibility will be to lead cross-functional interactions, analyze historical data, customer data, market trends, and statistical projections to create the most accurate and up-to-date demand plan. This position emphasizes a continuous improvement focus to ensure that planning accuracy is maintained at optimal levels while effectively communicating changes to relevant functions. The demand plan you develop will establish the service levels required by our customers while maximizing inventory turns in alignment with the organization's objectives. In addition to the core responsibilities, the Demand Planner will have exposure to leadership priorities and strategic initiatives that drive continuous improvement across all business functions. You will lead the development of a forward-looking aggregated demand plan at a SKU location level for specific product lines, acting as a Product Line Captain while maintaining a channel-level forecast. Your role will involve leading the Demand Planning Process for all Demand Cycle processes, collaborating with internal Sales and Marketing teams, and engaging with customers to ensure that all promotions and new initiatives are accurately captured in the demand plan. You will also facilitate the monthly consensus forecast alignment process, acting as an internal advocate for the Sales Channels you represent. Evaluating and incorporating market trends into demand plan analysis will be essential, as will facilitating cross-functional connectivity during the monthly Sales and Operation Planning (S&OP) meetings. Your responsibilities will include performing monthly root cause analysis to identify sources of controllable forecast error and publishing monthly channel forecasts and organizational demand plan metrics. Ultimately, your goal will be to continuously improve demand plan accuracy and connectivity across the supply chain to meet customer order service levels and inventory turn objectives.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and manage a forward-looking (24 Months) aggregated demand plan at a SKU location level for specific Product Lines as a Product Line Captain and maintain a channel level forecast.
• Lead the Demand Planning Process for all Demand Cycle processes with internal Sales and Marketing teams as well as our customers to ensure that all promotions and new initiatives (events) are captured in the demand plan.
• Collaborate with customers on promotions and inventory management and communicate risk & opportunities to the internal organization as needed.
• Lead monthly consensus forecast alignment process while acting as an internal advocate for the Sales Channel(s) you represent.
• Evaluate and incorporate market trends in demand plan analysis where appropriate.
• Facilitate the cross-functional connectivity required within the monthly Sales and Operation Planning (S&OP) process meetings to gain alignment to the consensus forecast, documenting and publishing forecast rationale and identification of risks and opportunities.
• Perform monthly root cause analysis to identify sources of controllable forecast error and mitigate in future forecasts.
• Review and publish monthly channel forecast and organizational demand plan metrics.
• Continuously improve demand plan accuracy and connectivity across the supply chain to ensure customer order service levels and inventory turns objectives are met.

Requirements

• BA/BS degree required with preferred emphasis on Supply Chain Management, Business, or related field
• 4+ Years of experience with supply chain planning and/or demand & inventory planning
• Understanding of how supply/demand planning impacts other functions of the business
• Advanced computer software skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Pivot tables)
• Ability to maintain complete confidentiality and discretion in business relationships and exercise sound business judgment
• Capability to work independently in a fast-paced lean organization and be extremely organized and detail oriented
• Ability to establish and maintain effective interpersonal working relationships with internal customers

Nice-to-haves

• Prior forecasting, modeling, and demand planning experience
• Experience in creating and giving presentations at various levels of management
• Experience with statistical forecasting (SaS FAW/DDPO solution)
• Forecasting certification (IIF, IBF etc...)