Global Demand Planner

Global Demand Planner

We are looking for a Global Demand Planer Materials for our Plymouth, MI facility. In this role you will Using analytical, marketing, and sales data, a demand planner is able to estimate future product demands with the goal of maximizing cash flow, sales levels, and service. In achieving these goals, a demand planner interacts with stakeholders in Sales, Marketing, Finance, Sourcing, and Manufacturing Operations

We offer:

Aside from a dynamic global culture and leading market position, we are proud to offer our employees development opportunities, competitive salary and a robust benefit program ALL available on first day of employment!

The perks and benefits of working at Oerlikon include the following:

• Comprehensive medical and prescription drug plan with low premiums, company sponsored HSA contributions and without cumbersome waiting periods to keep you going strong.

• Excellent Dental and Vision coverage.

• Employee Assistance, Financial and Wellness programs to help improve all aspects of your life journey.

• 401(k) retirement savings plan with significant company match and financial planning and education options to help you achieve your retirement goals

• Tuition reimbursement and internal education resources to satisfy your love of learning so you can continue to grow with us!

• Generous paid time off to support your physical and mental wellbeing.

• 12 paid company holidays to occasionally extend your weekends or time off.

• Flexible hours or remote work environment available for certain positions

• 100% company paid life insurance and disability insurance

• Employee Referral Bonus program because why not to bring your friends to work everyday!

Your Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the global forecast evaluation on product level, planning strategies and regional allocation* (Allocation DCs)

• Release orders from the DC's to the manufacturing site

• Volume allocation to regional DC's and drop-shipments within region in consultation with sales priorities

• Cooperative teamwork with other departments like production planning, Quality assurance (QA), Operations department, procurement department, sales planning department.

• Monitor and ensure regular MRP runs

• Inventory and Service Level KPI monitoring and reporting (broken down by location)

• In charge of the portfolio manufactured by the site, only finished goods

• Interface with Regional Sales Planners / customer service and local Production Planners

Your Profile:

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management or Business

• Minimum 5 years of Supply Chain, Planning or Forecast and/or related experience

• Understanding Demand and Distribution Planning principles, APICS/Forecast training and certification highly desirable

• Strong Analytical skills and ability to provide recommendations

• Ability to operate and structure large amount of data, very strong knowledge of Excel is required

• Ability to work with databases, Power BI is a plus

• Strong communication skills and ability to understand all collaborators' priorities and context, adapt communication to the counterpart

• Able to work independently and self-motivated

• Positive and open-minded in all interactions with counterparts, goodwill is a must

• Able to structure and synthesize data and processes

• Result oriented and dead line driven

Why Oerlikon:

Curiosity thrives at Oerlikon, and creates a dynamic, energetic and exciting environment that incubates innovation and passion to consistently improve what we do every day. This drives value for our customers and other stakeholders and helps us to enhance the performance of our products and services.

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