Sensata Technologies is looking for a demand planning specialist who will be responsible for the development and assessment of demand forecasts on designated product / program categories.
In this position you will work with multiple internal departments as well as external vendors on countless analyses to determine the needed products and quantities for certain products / programs.
General Responsibilities
- Leads in the creation of future capacity plans
- Handles any communication with marketing, manufacturing and customer service to ensure accuracy and efficiency of message
- Leads in defining an integrated supply chain to produce sustained, timely performance on all accounts
- Leads in the measuring and monitoring of specific product / program categories
- Leads in creating a demand plan that will be used throughout the company in regards to supply planning
- Leads in in-depth analysis with large amounts of data to run various statistics and analyses on the company to help future predictability of demand planning
Experience / Qualifications
- A university degree required (i.e.
Bachelors degree) or equivalent relevant work experience.
- Must be a team player able to work in a fast-paced environment with demonstrated ability to handle multiple competing tasks and demands
- Strong communication skills; oral, written and presentation
- Strong organization, planning and time management skills to achieve results
- Strong personal and professional ethical values and integrity
- Holds self-accountable to achieving goals and standards
- Proficient in Microsoft Office programs (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel)
- Strong interpersonal & collaboration skills to work effectively with all levels of the organization including suppliers and/or external customers
Sensata is embarking on an exciting change program to develop and implement a contemporary, world class SIOP process.
The SIOP integration team within Sensata's Global Operations organization is seeking an individual who has a proven Supply planning background to run the Supply and Inventory Management process across multiple product families.
The incumbent will be responsible to deploy and run Sensata's Product Family SIM process which provides a strong linkage between the Business Unit decision making and operational execution to achieve on-time delivery to requested date, inventory, capacity, operating margins and revenue commitments, while ensuring that fully considered risks are resolved or escalated within the full SIOP process.
This role will run the execution of Sensata's inventory strategy, balance the demand and supply cross multiple make site to provide consistent inputs and outputs to the specific Product Family Supply Planning process, run the Supply Review meeting and ensure cross-functional communication of information, which will support and lead to timely demand and supply decisions, execution, and closure of all escalations.
Key Accountabilities:
- Run the product family Supply and Inventory planning process
- Implement a Master Production Schedule and communicate financial or KPI risks throughout the end to end SIOP process
- Work with make sites planning teams to develop robust process to improve delivery performance while optimizing inventory
- Create scenario plans to balance demand and supply across multiple sites / production lines
- Execute customer, product and business priorities in the SIM process
- Develop an inventory plan that will support inventory targets through appropriate parameter settings including safety stock and master scheduling static data.
- Coordinate operations functions to provide regular guidance and inputs to the Supply Planning process in order to improve execution
- Conduct and facilitate what-if analysis to create alternate scenarios for reconciling demand and supply with the financial plan.
- Run the monthly Supply Review meeting and fully resolve escalations from Demand Reviews - work with make site planning leader to ensure site has a robust process for identifying and resolving all supply constraints - equipment capacity, labor and materials
- Drive key improvement projects with make site planning and operation teams to improve supply chain performance.
Provide thought leadership in solving complex supply planning challenges.
- Facilitate product lifecycle visibility in the SIOP process, coordinate capacity solutions and manage phase-in and phase-out inventory risks.
Critical Competencies:
- _Business priority setting:_
o A hands-on approach to Supply planning with the ability to communicate with cross functions in the business and appreciate day-to-day issues.
Highly detail oriented.
o Focuses on the most important and relevant topics based on the impact on results.
- _Teamwork_
o Skilled at working with teams of people with disparate opinions and agendas to build a sense of team goals.
o Owns the Supply Review preparation and creates accountability for accuracy in the SIOP process