Senior Demand Planner

At Modine, we are engineering a cleaner, healthier world. Building on more than 100 years of excellence in thermal management, we provide trusted systems and solutions that improve air quality and conserve natural resources. More than 13,000 employees are at work in every corner of the globe, delivering the solutions our customers need, where they need them. Our Climate Solutions and Performance Technologies segments support our purpose by improving air quality, reducing energy and water consumption, lowering harmful emissions and enabling cleaner running vehicles and environmentally-friendly refrigerants. Modine is a global company headquartered in Racine, Wisconsin (USA), with operations in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. For more information about Modine, visit www.modine.com.
Position Description:
The future of transportation is here. Our industry is going through a once-in-a-generation evolution as we push to zero emission mobility, and the Modine Advanced Thermal Systems (ATS) team is helping to drive that cleaner future. Are you excited by fast-moving projects as part of a highly collaborative team?
We are looking for team players who are curious enough to ask questions and explore new ideas, passionate enough to serve our customers, and ready to take ownership of challenges and grow with us. We are a team, first and foremost, and we take pride in our collaborative efforts; Everyone is accountable for achieving out goals. Check out our products: www.modineEV.com
As a Sr. Demand Planner, you play an essential role in our Sales and Supply Chain organization within Modine’s Advanced Thermal Systems (ATS) business, as we work closely with our customers to define the future of commercial electric vehicles. You will be creating and maintaining the consensus demand plan at multiple levels of aggregation, using statistical models, and leveraging insights from Product Management, Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Finance teams.
In this role, you will work cross-functionally with multiple teams within our organization including: Sales to determine customer demand, Supply Chain to stay updated on parts availability, Operations to be informed on throughput and capacity, Engineering for New Product Development (NPD) time horizon, and Finance to ensure profitability targets are achieved.
This is a remote position with a monthly travel requirement to our Racine, WI global headquarters to support Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SIOP) process. Racine, WI is 30 minutes from downtown Milwaukee, WI and 75 minutes from Chicago, IL.
Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for building out and leading S&OP processes including global demand planning, commercial alignment meetings with Sales, Manufacturing Logistics, Finance, loading forecasts, and presenting net effects of forecasts to Manufacturing, Finance, and Senior Executive leadership
• Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop statistical forecast models, and evaluate forecast results
• Interact with Sales, Marketing, and Finance to develop a consensus and forecast event drivers across categories and customers. Documents and retains history of planning assumptions
• Develop complete analysis/timeline related to demand for new product launches
• Develop aggregate level forecast to align cross-functional planning across the business unit
• Understands how environmental factors, market dynamics, competitors, and internal programs or overrides generate the need to adjust the mathematical forecast
• Develop aggregate level forecast to align cross-functional planning across the business unit
• Maintains working knowledge of end-to-end supply chain components including forecasting, inventory management, promotional planning, basic department management, master data management, item lifecycle and disposition, seasonal planning, DC operations, store ordering and operations, supplier planning and order fulfillment
• Drive root-cause analysis to understand demand plan error in prior periods and implement continuous improvement initiatives
• Ensure that product is available in the quantity and time needed to support customer demand, capacity constraints all while meeting inventory and service level targets

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years of demand planning and/or supply chain planned experience
• Understanding of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Advanced Planning Systems (APS) i.e., SAP IBP, Kinaxis, Logility, etc.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Advanced Excel & analytics skills required i.e., Power query, power pivots, vba, etc.
• Ability to work with multiple business functions and find balance in conflicting priorities
• Advanced analytical and statistical abilities, including concepts such as: Standard deviation, forecast error, bias, and mean average percent error (MAPE)

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Mathematics, Supply Chain, Logistics, Business, or related technical field

Travel:

• Monthly travel to our Racine, WI global headquarters is required to support the Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SIOP) process

Estimated Base Salary Range - $90,000 - $110,000
The wage range for this role takes into account a wide range of factors including but not limited to skills, experience, and location. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographical differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled.
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Modine provides a competitive benefit package, which could include paid vacation, short term disability, 401(k), health, dental, vision, life insurance, flex spending benefits, tuition reimbursement, Health Savings Account and much more. Human Resources will provide more detail upon your hiring.
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