SR MGR DEMAND MANAGEMENT

Job Overview

TE Connectivity's Logistics Demand Management Teams develop, integrate and provide short-term accounts or brand specific forecasts for internal operations which include replenishment data, customer data, sales promotion information, marketing plans and new distribution/product deletions. They are responsible for facilitating, managing and executing strategic directions related to plant performance, customer demand agreements, supply chain improvements, revenue forecasting and overall improvement in delivery metrics globally. They assist in the improvement of demand system forecasting accuracy for customers. The Demand Management Teams maintain and manage product history, forecasts and promotional demand. They analyze internal demand stream information, and categorizes according to demand patterns. They also may input sales/marketing intelligence for use in forecast systems, working with sales organization(s), national sales accounts, marketing, and related forecasting and planning groups.

Short Description

The Regional Sales and Inventory Operation Manager is responsible to implement, run and facilitate every month the end to end 5 step process of SOP.

This includes demand plans, consumption models, production strategy optimization, capacity planning, integration of new businesses, new product launches, end of life and management business reviews.
Must have the ability to work in very complex environment where decisions have to be based on data.

The Regional SIOP Manager has the ability to work across silos with people from different areas to communicate common goals, solicit information, and gain consensus and buy-in. The person in this role engages all levels of the organization and guides each functional area in understanding how it impacts the S&OP process and making sure execution happens according to plan.

Responsibilities and Qualifications

- Educate the teams on SOP process, support the initial roll out in the different functions and get strongly involved in each process steps standard operating cadence
- Participate in the development of statistical models to forecast base business
- Communicating with customers to determine their needs and understand market trend
- Work with Product managers and Sales teams to understand how new opportunities, product launch, end of life and pricing will influence demand for the 18 months to come
- Lead the meetings where demand consensus is reached and capture the demand assumptions
- Review and analyse the forecast demand versus actual demand, understanding changes and trends and communicate to the key stake holders
- Work with planning and production teams to convert demand assumptions into capacity requirements (internal and external)
- Assist in the resolution of key supply-demand/service-cost issues and establish plan to remove bottlenecks
- Coordinate the regional supply review based on the inputs from the local sites and run simulations when appropriate
- Prepare the Management Business review and align the Senior Leadership team of the organisation for decision making on sourcing / capex plan
- Elaborate a model to optimize safety stocks and customer satisfaction for all parts
- Implement the control process to guarantee execution of the local plants according to plan and drive implementation of mitigation plans in case of deviation

Key Performance Measurements:

- Forecast accuracy
- Bias items
- overdue backlog reduction
- Lead Time
- Revenue
- DOH

What your background should look like:

- Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business or Engineering
and minimum 5 years of experience in similar position
- Strong intellectual curiosity
- Strategic and tactical thinking
- Strong communication skills (oral and written)
- Strong leadership skills, ability to listen, influence, drive in a matric environment
- Project management skills
- ERP system knowledge
- Exhibits, drives and communicates a clear understanding of desired results
- Has clear vision and demonstrates the ability to learn, develop and deploy new ideas
- IBP

Competencies