Demand Planner

Schneider Electric - Nashville, TN

Full-time

Nashville, TN

10,001+ employees

Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing

About the position

As a Demand Planner at Schneider Electric, you will be accountable for leading the Offer and Demand review process for the business unit. This role involves managing the Collaborative Sales forecast process and delivering a consistent and aligned demand plan for the next 24 months. The Demand Planning process is fully embedded in the Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SIOP) framework. A key aspect of this position is to understand the impact and consequences of any given demand plan on the subsequent supply chain delivery through collaborative end-to-end simulations. Your responsibilities will include preparing and cleaning sales order history to establish a statistical forecast baseline. You will analyze and validate this baseline and trends in collaboration with data scientists, ensuring the integration of macroeconomic indicators into the forecast. Collaboration is essential, as you will interact with marketing, finance, and lines of business (LoB) to understand demand forecast drivers and achieve consensus for forecasts at the product family level. You will also need to understand strategic growth initiatives and integrate any relevant events into the demand plan, such as customer projects, product launches, or phase-out projects. In addition, you will coordinate demand plan alignment with marketing, finance, and LoB, preparing and leading the Offer and Demand Review meetings. Effective communication is crucial, as you will need to convey forecasts and assumptions, highlight new products and product phase-outs that are at risk, and define actions to mitigate these risks. You will provide input to the Supply & Inventory Planners to assess the impact on inventory and capacity, working closely with them on simulations and their effects on the overall supply chain. Continuous improvement will be a focus, as you monitor and drive enhancements in forecast value add and accuracy, follow up on order intake versus forecast, conduct root cause analysis for deviations, and manage corrective actions.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and clean sales order history to establish a statistical forecast baseline.
• Analyze and validate the statistical forecast baseline and trends with data scientists.
• Integrate macroeconomic indicators into the statistical forecast baseline.
• Interact with marketing, finance, and LoB to understand demand forecast drivers.
• Achieve consensus for forecasts at the product family level.
• Understand strategic growth initiatives and integrate relevant events into the demand plan.
• Coordinate demand plan alignment with Marketing, Finance & LoB.
• Prepare and lead the Offer and Demand Review meetings.
• Communicate the forecast and assumptions effectively.
• Highlight new products and product phase-outs that are at risk and define actions to mitigate these risks.
• Provide input to the Supply & Inventory Planners to assess the impact on inventory and capacity.
• Work closely with Supply & Inventory planners on simulations and their impact on the supply chain.
• Monitor and drive improvement in forecast value add and accuracy.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree OR 7+ years of experience in Supply Planning.
• Experience in Supply & Inventory Planning, Production Planning, and Vendor Forecasting is appreciated.
• Demonstrated proficiency in statistics, forecasting, and forecasting methods with an understanding of their financial and operational impacts.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with attention to detail.
• Proven ability to work in a team environment across Sales, Marketing, Finance, Manufacturing plants, and Supply Chain Planning.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Kinaxis and SAP is a plus.