What are the responsibilities and job description for the Demand Planning Manager position at HARMAN?
Description & Requirements
About the Role
The Demand Planning Manager will own the demand planning for North America Lifestyle Consumer Audio SBU. You will play a critical role in our organization, ensuring key KPI goals are met, developing process improvement, and collaborating with Finance, Marketing, Sales, and Operations to ensure forecasts are aligned with the Region's Operational forecast. This position reports directly to the Director of Sales and Operations Planning.
Your Team
You will manage a team of 3 direct reports located in the Northridge, CA office.
What You Will Do
- Continuously improve forecasts through evaluation of promotional activity, inventory levels, consumption, category trends, customer POS / Forecast / inventory data, and allocation plans.
- Prepare, monitor, and publish monthly forecast KPI's (Forecast Accuracy, Bias), identifying root causes and ensuring corrective actions are taken.
- Lead excess and obsolesces prevention reviews and analyze variances to forecasted items.
- Liaison for the supply planning team with other functional teams (Sales, Ops, Logistics, and Marketing) to incorporate market intelligence into the forecasting environment.
- Partner with Commercial Sales, Finance, and S&OP teams to ensure full alignment / consensus on the forecast.
- Responsible for detailed forecasting duties for the Portable Audio Business unit.
What You Need
What is Nice to Have
What Makes You Eligible
What We Offer
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Pay Transparency
Dependent on the position offered, other forms of compensation are also available, such as bonuses or commission.
Pay is based on a wide range of factors, including, without limitation, skill set, experience, training, location, and business need. While the above range is a reasonable estimate of the wage range for this position, please note the disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographical differential associated with the location where the position may be filled.
Benefits HARMAN is interested in the health and wellbeing of you and your family and offers a range of benefits designed to support your needs for holistic wellbeing. Benefits and perks may vary depending on the nature of your employment with HARMAN, and may include paid vacation and holidays, paid sick leave, volunteer leave, and paid bonding and care giver leave. Employees may also be eligible to participate in comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, fertility support and adoption assistance, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan with employer match, short and long term disability coverage, life insurance, and more.
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