Arrowhead is assisting an industrial motion controls products manufacturing company in Richfield, OH fill a Demand Planner position.
Position Summary
In this role, you will have the responsibility to participate in the forecasting cycle and oversee the tactical forecasting process. As a member of a highly collaborative, cross-functional team, you will work to develop and implement focused supply chain strategies which support business growth and profitability objectives, including customer satisfaction. You will advance and implement strategies throughout each stage of the product lifecycle, including new product launch planning and execution, inventory and obsolescence management, product rationalization, and performance monitoring.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Develop demand forecasts (operational forecasts) at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizons as part of the demand planning function.
Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop statistical forecast models, and evaluate forecast accuracy.
Coordinate cross-functional research activities to reconcile significant variances and refine the forecast model to reflect updated sales and marketing assumptions.
Interact with sales, marketing, and commercial finance to understand demand forecast drivers.
Utilize a collaborative and consensus approach by working with Sales, Marketing and Customer Finance to obtain and ensure that current and accurate information is used for demand forecasts.
Use and maintain the Demand Planning software (SAP) as the primary forecasting system tool.
Provide input to the Supply Management team to develop inventory strategies on existing items, new products, and product phase-outs.
Closely coordinate and communicate customer action plans with supply planning
Active involvement on definition of annual operating plan sales forecast and asset loading.
Qualifications:
Korean Speaking
Strong written and verbal communication skills with a proven ability to understand key concepts and communicate with business stakeholders
Strong organizational skills with the ability to perform under pressure and manage multiple priorities with competing demands
Strong analytical, data processing and problem-solving skills
Data gathering and quantitative and qualitative data analysis, including business process metrics and measures linking to business KPIs
Proficient in Microsoft Office: Excel and PowerPoint
Demonstrated proficiency in statistics, forecasting and forecasting methods with an understanding of financial and operational impacts
Experience building relationships with key internal and external customers based on trust and confidence
Ability to report/communicate technical data to a non-technical audience
Ability to communicate, partner with, and influence team members
Collaborative work style; customer-focused
Assisting in the improvement of demand forecasting accuracy for internal and external customers, including determining the appropriate algorithm for statistical forecasts.
Analyzing internal demand stream information and categorizing according to demand patterns.
Supporting the monthly Integrated Business Planning cycle by facilitating monthly demand reviews for all assigned product families.