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 improvem

📌 Manager Demand Planning (Pune Division)
🏢 Eaton
📍 Pune Division