About the role

  • Demand Planning Manager at Medline leading a team to enhance forecast accuracy and inventory efficiency. Driving collaboration across supply chain, sales, and marketing teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead team members by placing value on adherence to the monthly planning process and demand planning best practices
  • Work cross functionally to enhance the end-to-end capability of the S&OP process
  • Cultivate an environment of continuous improvement with an emphasis on collaboration and personal ownership
  • Maintain key performance metrics and demand monitoring for senior management
  • Determine methods to address and correct planning behaviors that adversely affect forecast accuracy, service, and inventory position
  • Act as subject matter expert regarding demand planning processes and work with supply network planners, import and domestic buyers, supply chain analysts and central data organizations
  • Manage and partner with internal and external stakeholders
  • Train, coach, and lead team in documented process flows, rules and standards relevant to inventory management demand planning and industry best practices
  • Work closely with our Implementation team to successfully plan the onboarding of new business
  • Lead day-to-day activities of the team
  • Assign, monitor and review process and accuracy of work
  • Direct efforts and provide technical guidance on more complex issues
  • Assist in the ideation, management, and prioritization of continuous improvement projects and initiatives

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Supply Chain Management
  • 4 years experience in Supply Chain
  • Experience applying knowledge of MRP, buying, demand planning and forecasting
  • At least 2 years of experience managing people, including hiring, developing, motivating and directing people
  • Experience with leading, mentoring, and developing employees; performance management; cultivating a team culture that aligns with the organization’s goals and values
  • Ability to assess and initiate actions independently.
  • Experience in taking charge of a situation, team or project
  • Experience developing ways of accomplishing goals with little or no supervision
  • Demonstrated problem solving ability in an environment of rapid change and with many variables
  • Experience analyzing data and/or process to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Strong visual presentation skills as related to reports, scorecards, dashboards and presentations

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Life and disability coverage
  • 401(k) contributions
  • Paid time off (PTO)
  • Professional development opportunities

Job title

Demand Planning Manager

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$116,000 - $174,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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