Club Car boasts a 60+ year history of industry-leading innovation and design, initially focused on golf cars and then expanding to commercial utility vehicles and personal-use transportation.
GENERAL JOB DESCRIPTION
The Senior Demand Planning Manager will have oversight of the consensus demand plan that is a critical piece to the overall SIOP process. You will implement and maintain a SIOP demand planning cadence that involves working cross-functionally with sales, finance and operations. This is a highly visible role with key inputs into the future growth of the business.
PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES
- Collaborate with leaders across the different business units to develop an 18-month consensus demand plan.
- Partner with stakeholders across teams to capture all inputs to the demand plan and to ensure adjustments and improvements to forecasting models and methodologies are implemented.
- Integrate firm backlog, order pipeline, bookings forecast, statistical forecasting, portfolio management, NPI, market intelligence and other product demand signals to create a consensus demand forecast.
- Coordinate cross-functional discussions to document and challenge Demand Plan assumptions and refine the forecast.
- Collaborate with senior management to align demand planning initiatives with overall business strategies and goals. Ensure alignment between revenue and demand plans.
- Understand the drivers of demand changes, customers, and revenue impacts and potential effects on the downstream processes.
- Lead the SIOP Demand Reviews; prepare all data and metrics for review, identify gaps and scenarios that must be presented; guide final decision making on open items and trade-offs, and prepare escalations for executive review where appropriate.
- Translate demand plans to a 3- to 18-month supply horizon as part of an input to the monthly Executive SIOP while optimizing customer delivery and inventory levels
- Collaborate with Material Managers to generate recommendations to solve capacity issues and support long term sales demand
- Measure, analyze and build reporting for key SIOP supply metrics, while monitoring adherence to key performance indicators (KPIs)
- Manage long-term capacity views with scenario planning, being able to identify constraints and escalate exceptions for business consideration with the suggestion of possible scenarios and solutions.
- Provide regular updates on supply status, risks and opportunities to all key internal partners
OTHER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Will be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE JOB
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree; MBA or master’s degree in business, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Finance or equivalent preferred.
Experience:
- 8+ years of experience in Supply Chain, Finance, Sales Operations, or Program/Project Management
- Experience with demand and supply planning tools
- Strong Working knowledge of S&OE and S&OP with implementation experience
- Ability to build cross-functional relationships through strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience in demand and supply planning
- Advanced capability in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
KEY COMPETENCIES
- Demonstrated strong analytical skills
- Strong business acumen and business partnering skills
- Strong collaboration and influencing skills across multiple disciplines
- Demonstrated excellent oral, written, presentation, and interpersonal skills to all levels of the organization
- Strong and demonstrated drive for results
- Demonstrated people development skills
- High degree of initiative, creativity, and problem solving ability required
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or listen.
- This position may be required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to feel; reach with hand and arms, and stoop, kneel or crouch as needed.
- Specific vision requirements include the ability to see at close range, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Club Car is a diverse and inclusive environment. We are an equal employment opportunity employer, dedicated to hiring a diverse workforce including individuals with disabilities and United States qualified protected veterans.
Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated at Club Car.