What You’ll Do
The Manager, Demand Planning is responsible for building and advancing Demand Planning capabilities within the Center of Excellence (CoE) while leading a team of demand planners supporting multiple businesses and regions
The role is accountable for developing standardized demand planning processes, governance, tools, analytics, and best practices to deliver accurate, consensus-based demand plans for mid- to long-term (SIOP) planning horizons and supporting short tem execution (S&OE;)
This position provides functional leadership to a team responsible for end-to-end demand planning execution, ensuring effective integration of statistical forecasting, commercial inputs, market intelligence, and product lifecycle considerations into a reliable demand signal
Demand Planning Leadership & Capability Development
Establish and deploy standardized Demand Planning processes, tools, templates, and governance frameworks
Build organizational capability in forecasting, demand analytics, scenario planning, demand adjustments,
consensus demand planning and demand review effectiveness
Lead integration of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) considerations into the demand planning process, ensuring effective planning and governance of
Current Product Introductions (NPI), End-of-Life (EOL) transitions, SKU segmentation, portfolio optimization, and Product Complexity Reduction initiatives to improve forecast quality, inventory management, and business performance
Analytics, Performance & Continuous Improvement
Own Demand Planning performance metrics including Forecast Accuracy, Forecast Bias, MAPE, Forecast Value Add, and forecast stability
Establish robust root cause analysis methodologies and corrective action processes to improve forecasting performance
Develop dashboards, reporting solutions, and analytics to provide actionable planning insights
Team Leadership & People Management
Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and customer
📌 Manager Demand Planning (Pune)
🏢 Eaton
📍 Pune