Demand Planning Senior Manager

We’re looking for people who put their innovation to work to advance our success – and their own. Join an organization that ensures a more secure world through connecting and protecting our customers with inventive electrical solutions.

• Lead the Data Solutions demand planning function and develop demand planners into business-facing analysts who challenge assumptions, quantify risk, and translate commercial inputs into an actionable plan.
• Lead the monthly Demand Review operating process, including prework, data readiness, assumption review, scenario development, consensus building, decision capture, and handoff into Supply Review and financial reconciliation.
• Create and maintain the approved unconstrained demand plan across product families, value streams, customers, programs, and time horizons, clearly separating firm backlog and orders from forecast and opportunity assumptions.
• Partner with Sales, Product Management, Program Management, Finance, SIOP, Supply Chain, and Operations to reconcile differing demand views and establish one agreed planning signal.
• Establish forecast governance, hierarchy, segmentation, and analytical methods appropriate for a rapidly growing make-to-order and configure-to-order portfolio, including standard-product demand where history is limited.
• Own demand assumptions, risks, and opportunities, including phase-in/phase-out, new-product ramps, customer timing changes, upside/downside scenarios, cancellations, and forecast-consumption and time-fence logic.
• Drive demand-change control so material or customer changes are visible, quantified, traceable, and communicated before they cascade into the master schedule, material plan, capacity plan, or customer commitments.
• Improve forecast accuracy and bias through root-cause analysis at the level where decisions are made, distinguishing structural forecast error from timing shifts, one-time program moves, and growth assumptions.
• Create demand analytics connecting units, mix, revenue, backlog, forecast, and opportunity pipeline so leadership understands both the base plan and plausible outcome range.
• Ensure new products, lifecycle transitions, site transfers, and end-of-life events are reflected in the demand plan with explicit timing and assumptions.
• Partner with Master Scheduling and Supply Planning to translate the demand signal into the MPS and constrained supply process without creating competing plans.
• Build standard work, role clarity, planning calendars, data definitions, scorecards, and continuous-improvement routines that mature demand planning as the business scales.

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Finance, Operations, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years experience in demand planning, forecasting, SIOP/IBP, supply chain planning, commercial planning, or related manufacturing-planning roles is highly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading a demand review or consensus forecasting process across Sales, Product, Finance, and Supply Chain.
• Strong analytical capability with forecast accuracy and bias, segmentation, scenario analysis, backlog and pipeline interpretation, and financial/unit reconciliation.
• Working knowledge of ERP/MRP and planning systems.
• Advanced degree and APICS CPIM/CSCP, IBF, or equivalent planning certification.
• Experience in high-growth, make-to-order, configure-to-order, engineered-product, or limited-history environments.
• Experience with JDE, Power BI, advanced Excel, or comparable planning and analytics tools.

WE HAVE:

• A dynamic global reach with diverse operations around the world that will stretch your abilities, provide plentiful career opportunities, and allow you to make an impact every day

  • nVent is a leading global provider of electrical connection and protection solutions. We believe our inventive electrical solutions enable safer systems and ensure a more secure world. We design, manufacture, market, install and service high performance products and solutions that connect and protect some of the world's most sensitive equipment, buildings and critical processes. We offer a comprehensive range of systems protection and electrical connections solutions across industry-leading brands that are recognized globally for quality, reliability and innovation.

  • Our principal office is in London and our management office in the United States is in Minneapolis. Our robust portfolio of leading electrical product brands dates back more than 100 years and includes nVent CADDY, ERICO, HOFFMAN, ILSCO, SCHROFF and TRACHTE. Learn more at www.nvent.com.

• Commitment to strengthen communities where our employees live and work

  • We encourage and support the philanthropic activities of our employees worldwide

  • Through our nVent in Action matching program, we provide funds to nonprofit and educational organizations where our employees volunteer or donate money

• Core values that shape our culture and drive us to deliver the best for our employees and our customers. We’re known for being:

  • Innovative & adaptable

  • Dedicated to absolute integrity

  • Focused on the customer first

  • Respectful and team oriented

  • Optimistic and energizing

  • Accountable for performance

• Benefits to support the lives of our employees

Pay Transparency
 
nVent’s pay scale is based on the expected range of base pay for this job and the employee’s work location. Employee pay within this range will be based on a combination of factors including knowledge, skills, abilities, experience, education, and performance. Where federal, state, or local minimum wage requirements exist, employee pay will comply.
 
Compensation Range:

Depending on the position offered, employee may be eligible for other forms of compensation, such as annual incentives.

Benefit Overview

At nVent, we value our people and their health and well-being.  We provide a broad benefits package with meaningful programs for eligible full-time employees that includes:

• Medical, dental, and vision plans along with flexible spending accounts, short-term and long-term disability benefits, critical illness, accident insurance and life insurance.

• A 401(k) retirement plan and an employee stock purchase plan — both include a company match.

• Other supplemental benefits may include tuition reimbursement, caregiver, personal and parental leave, back-up care services, paid time off including volunteer time, a well-being program, and/or legal & identity theft protection.

At nVent, we connect and protect our customers with inventive electrical solutions. People are our most valuable asset. Inclusion and diversity means that we celebrate and encourage each other’s authenticity because we understand that uniqueness sparks growth.