Senior Demand Planning Supervisor
manufacturing › Demand / Forecast Planning · M2 — M2 — Manager II · Management
Senior supervisor who oversees a team of demand planners and coordinates forecast accuracy across product lines.
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What this role is
Senior supervisor who oversees a team of demand planners and coordinates forecast accuracy across product lines. At the Manager II (M2) level, the role owns an established team or sub-function, cross-project coordination and priorities, and drives group delivery and development. Manages a team; sometimes manages leads.
What this level does
- Leads a skilled team of demand planners responsible for developing, modifying, and communicating short and long range demand plans to Supply Planning
- Owns tactical forecast outcomes for an assigned product category or market, applying judgment within known demand and supply factors
- Coordinates cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, and Finance stakeholders to reconcile inputs into a consolidated demand plan
- Prepares and presents inputs into the monthly demand review, escalating supply risks and contingency needs to the department manager
- Develops junior planners' forecasting methodology and analytical technique, specializing the team in specific categories or analytical approaches
- Knowledge applied
- Applies deeper forecasting judgment across known demand and supply factors to own tactical plans for a category or market.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Makes judgments within known factors; specializes the team in a category or analytical technique and reconciles conflicting cross-functional inputs.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Cross-functional cooperation with Sales, Marketing, and Finance; presents inputs into the monthly demand review.
- Typical experience
- 2–5 years in team leadership or specialist demand-planning roles; leads a skilled team and owns tactical forecast outcomes.
Skills at this level
- Statistical and analytical forecasting
- — Applies forecasting methodologies backed by strong mathematical and statistical knowledge to estimate future product demand and analyze inventory flow.
- S&OP and consensus demand review leadership
- — Leads the monthly demand review within the S&OP cadence, driving a single-number mindset by reconciling Commercial, Finance, and Supply Chain inputs into one consolidated demand plan.
- Forecast accuracy and bias management
- — Owns and improves forecast accuracy and bias for a business segment, setting up mechanisms to detect critical forecast changes and reporting net change against prior forecast.
- Supply risk and contingency planning
- — Evaluates risk to supply, develops contingency plans with the Supply Chain Manager, and communicates them across the wider planning team.
- Predictive analytics and machine learning
- — Leverages predictive analytics and machine learning as demand planning increasingly relies on advanced analytics to improve forecast models.
- ERP and demand planning systems
- — Uses ERP and demand planning software such as SAP APO and SAP IBP to integrate demand signals and capitalize on company technological resources for planning.
- Cross-functional stakeholder coordination
- — Coordinates demand planning across Sales, Marketing, Finance, Sourcing, and Manufacturing Operations to align on a shared demand plan.
- Advanced Excel for forecasting
- — Uses advanced Excel to build, maintain, and model forecasts and to produce monthly demand-planning metrics and net-change analyses.
- Executive insight translation
- — Places granular, quantitative demand insight within the wider business context and translates it into actionable recommendations for senior management and executives in S&OP meetings.
- Problem-solving and business acumen
- — Blends analytical prowess with business acumen to question inputs, accurately identify a demand need, and present an effective planning solution.
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