This is a newly created role reflecting the importance and interaction with senior management. Our client is a manufacturer for medical and consumer products . Their continued growth and shortened NPI lead times have radically raised SKU’s, capacity planning issues and altered world wide manufacturing capabilities. In this role you will:
Lead Global Demand Consensus Meetings and ensure effective monthly Demand Consensus Review process in place across all regions.
Drive functional process excellence across all markets
Work with all worldwide business regions to aggregate customer and statistical forecasts
Represent the summary outputs of the Demand Consensus process at the monthly Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning Demand Management Review (SIOP/DMR)
Support and work closely with key stakeholders (Sales/Marketing/Development, Finance, Supply Planning, etc.) to ensure alignment with
business strategies.
Directly supervise assigned Demand Planners to drive forecast accuracy improvement.
Establish performance expectations and training/development plans for Demand Planners, providing periodic feedback and supervisory direction. Appraise performance and provides input to annual compensation and development planning reviews.
Establish strategies, key performance metrics, target objectives/guidelines and improvement initiatives to meet demand management objectives
Work with the commercial team to maintain accurate product forecasts, capture new requirements, communicate demand spikes, large orders and work with supply planning team to allocate products when required.
Work closely with new Product Development Teams to support successful new product launch planning and execution
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