FD North America Demand & Supply Planning Manager

About the role

The FD North America Demand & Supply Planning Manager serves as the functional leader for demand planning, supply planning, finished goods inventory performance, and third-party product supplier scheduling across the North America region. This role is responsible for meeting customer demand through manufacturing, supplier, and distribution network capabilities while ensuring optimal service levels, inventory performance, and working capital efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Lead North America-based Demand Planning and Supply Planning teams to execute demand forecasting, supply, replenishment, inventory, and supplier scheduling strategies that support customer service, inventory, and financial objectives.
• Facilitate the North America demand planning process, including statistical forecasting, demand review facilitation, forecast accuracy improvement, and alignment with Commercial, Product Management, and Finance teams.
• Own the regional supply planning process, including supply balancing, constraint management, capacity planning, inventory deployment, replenishment planning, and supply risk mitigation.
• Translate demand plans into executable supply plans by aligning manufacturing capacity, supplier capabilities, inventory strategies, and distribution requirements.
• Lead monthly Supply Review processes within the IBP framework, ensuring alignment between demand, supply, inventory, financial plans, and operational capabilities.
• Drive short-term execution through active participation in Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE), resolving supply constraints, managing shortages, prioritizing customer requirements, and mitigating business risks.
• Develop and implement inventory optimization strategies across manufacturing facilities, distribution centers, and supplier networks to improve service levels, inventory turns, and working capital performance.
• Establish and maintain supply planning policies, planning parameters, safety stock methodologies, replenishment strategies, and inventory governance processes.
• Partner with Procurement and Supplier Management teams to improve supplier reliability, reduce lead-time variability, and strengthen continuity of supply.
• Lead capacity planning and scenario modeling efforts to evaluate production, sourcing, and inventory alternatives that support growth initiatives and changing market conditions.
• Develop action plans and lead teams through implementation of Lean and Continuous Improvement initiatives (Johnson Controls Business Systems) including inventory flow optimization, pull systems, Kanban methodologies, root cause problem solving, and process standardization.
• Analyze supply chain performance metrics including inventory turns, days of supply, fill rates, plan attainment, supplier performance, forecast consumption, and customer service levels to drive continuous improvement.
• Collaborate across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Procurement, Logistics, Commercial, Finance, and Product Management organizations to remove constraints and improve end-to-end supply chain performance.
• Mentor, coach, and develop planning professionals while demonstrating Johnson Controls Winning Behaviors: We focus on what matters; We win as one team; We own the outcome; We Improve every day.

Requirements

• Required Bachelor's degree required, with majors in Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Logistics, Marketing, Business Administration, Economics, or related field preferred.
• Eight (8)+ years of professional experience in Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Materials Management, Inventory Planning, and/or Supply Chain Planning within complex manufacturing environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading end-to-end planning processes, including forecasting, demand planning, supply planning, inventory optimization, and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) or Integrated Business Planning (IBP).
• Supervisory experience coaching, developing, and leading employees to continuously improve performance and build organizational capability.
• Extensive knowledge of Supply Chain processes, including Integrated Business Planning (IBP), Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), S&OE, Forecasting, Demand Planning, Supply Planning, MRP, Inventory Management, Procurement, Materials Management, and Logistics.
• Proven experience improving forecast accuracy, inventory performance, customer service levels, and working capital metrics through process and system improvements.
• Experience using planning and ERP systems such as Oracle, SAP, APO, Kinaxis, SAS, and Microsoft Office applications.
• Experience with SAP IBP (Integrated Business Planning) Demand and Supply Response.
• Experience with Lean methodologies and leading continuous improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Location: On Site: Phoenix, AZ, Atlanta, GA, Milwaukee, WI. Reynosa, MX, Remote: Dallas, TX ability to travel 35-40%.
• Ability to travel international at times.
• Hiring Salary Range: $100,000-$150,000 (Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.)
• This role offers a competitive Bonus plan that will take into account individual, group, and corporate performance.
• This position includes a competitive benefits package.
• The posted salary range reflects the target compensation for this role. However, we recognize that exceptional candidates may bring unique skills and experiences that exceed the typical profile. If you believe your background warrants consideration beyond the stated range, we encourage you to apply.

Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with experience leveraging data to drive business decisions and performance improvements.
• Experience with planning and ERP systems such as Oracle, SAP, APO, Kinaxis, SAS, and Microsoft Office applications.
• Experience with SAP IBP (Integrated Business Planning) Demand and Supply Response.
• Experience with Lean methodologies and leading continuous improvement initiatives.

Benefits

Competitive benefits package including health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and other perks.