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Job Description
Responsible for executing demand planning processes, ensuring effective communication with stakeholders, leading S&OP meetings, and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives that impact KPIs (primary: forecast accuracy; secondary: on-time delivery/stock availability and inventory management/DIO).
Key Accountabilities
• Execute the daily, weekly and monthly demand planning processes (i.e. demand outlier adjustments, new parts, etc.) to fine tune the forecast to achieve forecast accuracy and customer delivery targets.
• Lead the Monthly Forecast Consensus S&OP meeting to reach a consensus with business partners on the sales demand forecast by facilitating a collaborative planning process.
• Collect data from internal and external sources such as customers forecast and data/market intelligence that are known to impact demand.
• Obtaining information and details on occurrences that could impact demand like promotions, new customers/parts.
• Developing demand forecasts at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizons (rolling forecast).
• Coordinating and seeking cross-functional enquiries activities to reconcile forecasts variances (outliers-items).
• Refining systems, process, and methods to improve demand forecasts to better anticipate customer needs and forecast accuracy.
• Provide reporting and analysis on the full breadth of Supply Chain Performance, including Backorders, Backlog, DIO, OTD, Forecast Accuracy KPI and forecast bias.
Education Qualification:
• Bachelor’s degree in business, Supply Chain Management, or a related field or equivalent
• Minimum of 1-3 years of experience in demand planning.
Technical Competence & Skills:
• Experience using a Demand Planning software and ERP systems (Oracle) is preferred.
• Solid understand of common industry-wide supply chain planning processes is preferred.
• Self-starter, able to work under minimum supervision.
• Self-motivated and result orientated.
• Strong analytical, quantitative, and qualitative skills, with the ability to interpret and translate data into actionable strategies.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, adapting to changing priorities.
Others (% of travel, language, etc.):
• We are seeking a candidate with excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. Other languages like Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin is preferred but not required.
• We are committed to diversity and inclusion and encourage individuals of all backgrounds to apply.
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What We Do
Donaldson Company helps solve some of the world's most complex filtration and contamination control challenges, and is one of the largest global providers of unique filtration technologies and high-quality filters and parts. Our filtration technologies and products are used every day, in a variety of industries and environments, including aerospace, agriculture, construction, food and beverage, manufacturing, mining, power generation, transportation and many more. Key to our success, our 14,000 employees support customers at sales, manufacturing and distribution centers from over 140 locations on six continents.
The filtration market continues to grow. Customers' needs for filtration solutions continue to evolve. And the opportunities for our products and our people continue to expand.
