NEW JOB OPENING
DEMAND PLANNING PROFESSIONAL
IN Rockford, TN, USA!

Education:

• High School Diploma or equivalent



Required:

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in demand planning, supply planning, inventory management, logistics, manufacturing, or supply chain analytics.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

• Ability to manage non-routine assignments and contribute to process and business improvements.

• Experience working with forecasting models, inventory controls, and KPI reporting.

• Strong understanding of supply chain, logistics, manufacturing, and business operations.

• Strong knowledge in a technical field or business method including the basic theoretical background.

• Develops basic business understanding.

• Contributes to team effort, awareness of expected value add.

• May improve processes, business methods or technical components



Job Summary:

• Experienced Professional: These positions are expected to contribute to and deliver business processes or detailed technology solutions, in a self-managed and target-oriented manner, and thus contributes to team results.

• Position focusing on analyzing, developing, testing or implementing processes, technologies and systems in their specific field of expertise, from first principles.

• Targets are short to medium term (best to be characterized as milestones), and achievements are monitored.

• They may provide functional advice to and integrate services of operational staff or semi-professional colleagues.

• Typically, these functions require 2 to 5 years of relevant experience in their field of work and qualification.



Responsibilities:

• Completes regular forecasting and planning for a number of relevant indicators (e.g. turnover, production, inventories, changes in inventory, capital expenditure requirements, employee capacities, etc.).

• Analyzes, controls and reports on relevant KPI (e.g. productivity, profitability, capital tie-up, assets), detects and evaluates plan deviations, and derives recommendations for respective remedial measures.

• Performs qualified cost-and-profitability analyses for specific business cases (i.e. product launches, relocations, review of vertical range of manufacturing, etc.) to prepare respective alternative decisions.

• Develops supplier forecasts and determines logistical processes with suppliers.

• Introduces and implements logistical requirements regarding material provision and delivery as well as material phase-in/out in the PLM process.

• Plans and controls assigned inventories and stocks (e.g. supply level, planning adjustments, etc.), analyzes inventory changes and develops measures for inventory reduction.

• Analyzes and controls logistical processes (e.g. Cycle Time, First Pass Yield, On-time delivery, KPI of effectiveness, productivity, etc.), in order to detect process weaknesses and to start process improvements.

• Maintains a network and cooperates with all involved stakeholders in the respective processes.

• Needs professional technological, economical or scientific know how, methods, tools and principles, and applies to differing and variable situations.

• Needs to solve assigned, non-routine tasks, to contribute to projects or assignments, or to support development of guidelines, methods, tools or business processes.

• **Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered.**

• **Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client’s business needs and requirements.**