Dorman Products - Colmar, PA
posted 5 months ago
As a Demand Planner for Dayton Parts, you will play a crucial role in maintaining a product demand forecast for a portfolio of heavy-duty parts. This position requires you to partner closely with the Product Management and Sales teams to monitor demand trends effectively. You will also collaborate with Supply Planning and Procurement teams to develop and maintain demand planning strategies and monthly SKU-level forecasts. Your accountability will extend to planning deliverables and meeting facilitation, aligning with the monthly planning calendar and supporting the corporate Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SI&OP) process. This role is hybrid, requiring you to be present at our Corporate office in suburban Philadelphia (Colmar, PA) at least once per week. In this position, you will own a product category demand plan and maintain forecasts for a large subset of SKUs through exception management and analytics. This includes analyzing historical sales, market trends, seasonality, promotions, lifecycle, customer POS, and customer projections to maximize forecast accuracy. You will prepare demand planning deliverables in accordance with the monthly planning calendar, which includes sales versus forecast analysis, sales/market intelligence, product plans, and SKU/category forecast recommendations. A significant part of your role will involve conducting a monthly 'deep dive' of high-value and high-variance SKUs, collaborating with Product Management, Sales, and Supply Chain Management to prepare findings and recommendations for review at monthly Pre-SIOP meetings. Additionally, you will work with the Product Teams to ensure that new product launch plans and initial volumes are properly planned. Monitoring early-life sales and adjusting forecasts promptly, especially for high-value and high-variance SKUs, will be essential. You will also partner with Sales to load and analyze demand for new business opportunities and collaborate with Supply Chain Management functions to develop and deploy end-to-end supply chain initiatives that optimize serviceability while maximizing inventory turns. Managing product lifecycles effectively, particularly in planning for end-of-life inventory, will be part of your responsibilities. Promoting an environment of teamwork and cooperation, you will need to communicate effectively to ensure alignment on key issues and initiatives, drawing insights from cross-functional teams to enhance and improve business processes and performance.