Senior Manager, Demand Planning
BIC · Shelton, CT · 1 wk ago
HybridFull-time
About the role
The Senior Manager, Demand Planning is a critical leader within BIC USA's Supply Chain organization, responsible for leading the demand planning function across a ~$1B U.S. business spanning three categories and more than 1,400 SKUs. This role owns the end-to-end demand planning process and is accountable for creating a single, forward-looking view of demand that enables the business to make better commercial, financial, supply, and inventory decisions.
Responsibilities
- Demand Planning Leadership:
- Lead the end-to-end monthly demand planning process across all U.S. categories, ensuring a robust and disciplined approach to forecasting and demand management.
- Own the demand plan across multiple planning horizons, including near-term execution, 0–24 month planning, Annual Operating Plan (AOP), Latest Estimate (LE), and Long-Range Planning (LRP).
- Establish and continuously improve demand planning methodologies, including statistical forecasting, historical analysis, market intelligence, commercial inputs, and scenario-based planning.
- Drive improvements in forecast accuracy, forecast bias, forecast value add, and overall demand plan quality.
- Establish clear planning governance, standards, roles, and accountability across the demand planning organization and broader business.
- Lead preparation, consolidation, and presentation of demand inputs for IBP/S&OP and executive planning forums.
- Ensure the demand plan provides a clear and actionable view of the most likely business outcome while appropriately reflecting upside, downside, and uncertainty.
- Identify opportunities to simplify and improve planning processes, eliminate non-value-added activities, and increase the speed and quality of decision-making.
- Ensure the demand plan provides a clear and actionable view of the most likely business outcome while appropriately reflecting upside, downside, and uncertainty.
- Lead preparation, consolidation, and presentation of demand inputs for IBP/S&OP and executive planning forums.
- Establish clear planning governance, standards, roles, and accountability across the demand planning organization and broader business.
- Drive improvements in forecast accuracy, forecast bias, forecast value add, and overall demand plan quality.
- Establish and continuously improve demand planning methodologies, including statistical forecasting, historical analysis, market intelligence, commercial inputs, and scenario-based planning.
- Own the demand plan across multiple planning horizons, including near-term execution, 0–24 month planning, Annual Operating Plan (AOP), Latest Estimate (LE), and Long-Range Planning (LRP).
- Lead the end-to-end monthly demand planning process across all U.S. categories, ensuring a robust and disciplined approach to forecasting and demand management.