Supply Demand Planner (Demand Planner II) Contract

Job Title: Demand Planner

Job Type: 12 Months Contract

Location: Austin, TX

Pay rate range: $44 – $46 per hour

Job Summary:

• Our client is looking for a dynamic, highly motivated Supply Demand Planner for our Americas Operations group. As a member of the Supply Demand Management (SDM) team, you will join a highly influential group within the client, challenged to scale at the pace of the company’s overall growth.

• As a leader on this team, you will play a critical role in ensuring operational and financial success for the organization.
• You will develop, communicate, and execute end-to- end product demand and supply plans across all channels of distribution in over 80 countries for a current or future product line.

Key Qualifications:

• You combine extraordinary analytical capabilities, business savvy and leadership skills.
• You bring thoughtful influence in a matrixed organization, be a strong collaborator and communicator.
• You have experience presenting to executive management.

Description:

• You will forecast demand, inventory, and multi-channel sell through. Generate weekly and quarterly.
• supply plans that meet financial objectives. Evaluate risks. Plan and implement contingency.
• plans to mitigate.
• You’ll analyze product sales and find opportunities to drive partner groups to appropriate action.
• You will partner closely with regional product planning teams to ensure supply plans meet sales requirements.
• Coordinate with Marketing and New Product Operations teams to set launch quantities of new product introductions and to ensure smooth product transitions.
• You will collaborate with the global procurement teams to allocate constrained components, ensure raw material inventory targets are achieved and minimize material obsolescence during product transition.
• Present product updates and recommended actions to Operations executive management team on a weekly basis.
• Identify improvement opportunities in the product planning process, marshal resources, and drive projects to completion.
• Less than 10% required travel.
• Prior experience in fields that demand complex quantitative analysis such as finance or consulting is
• desired.
• Prior experience in product planning, production control, inventory management, or production/manufacturing operations is a plus.
• Ability to think strategically and execute tactically, a persistent attention to detail, and a high level of proficiency in working with numbers.

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Rate/Salary: $44 – $46 per hour