Help shape the future of demand planning at PPG's Aerospace Materials business!
As Demand Manager, COE Americas, you will bring together customer insights, commercial intelligence, and analytics to build a clear view of future demand. Your work will guide inventory, distribution, manufacturing, and financial planning across our U.S. and Canada Coatings & Sealants network.
This is an onsite position based in one of the following sites: Atlanta, GA; Mojave, CA; Dallas, TX; or Shelby, NC. You will report to the Supply Chain Manager, Americas COE.
Key Responsibilities
Lead demand planning and business alignment
- Establish and continuously improve a consistent demand planning process across the network, with clear ownership, documented assumptions, and reliable planning standards.
- Develop and maintain a rolling 18–24-month demand outlook that combines historical demand, statistical forecasts, customer intelligence, sales insights, market trends, and business assumptions.
- Lead the S&OP Demand Review, bringing teams together to evaluate forecast changes, align on assumptions, and communicate risks and opportunities.
- Translate the demand outlook into actionable information for inventory management, distribution strategies, manufacturing planning, and long-range network decisions.
Connect customer and commercial insights
- Build strong partnerships with Sales, Account Management, Commercial Excellence, Customer Service, and Segment Leadership to identify and quantify future customer requirements.
- Establish a structured approach to gathering customer, market, program, and competitive intelligence and incorporating it into demand plans.
- Partner with Finance to translate demand projections into a revenue outlook that supports financial forecasting, annual operating plans, and budgeting.
Develop people and planning capabilities
- Lead, coach, and develop a team responsible for forecasting, demand analysis, intelligence gathering, forecast maintenance, and business reporting.
- Define and maintain forecast hierarchies, aggregation levels, allocation methods, and planning structures that support consistent decisions across the network.
- Serve as the business lead for SAP IBP demand planning implementation, defining business requirements and supporting process readiness and adoption.
- Use forecast accuracy, forecast bias, demand variability, and forecastability analysis to identify improvement opportunities and strengthen planning performance.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Supply Chain, Analytics, or a related field required.
- 5+ years of supply chain, planning, or commercial sales experience required.
- 2+ years of experience leading or coaching teams.
- Demonstrated experience partnering with Sales, Commercial, Operations, and Supply Chain teams to develop demand forecasts and business plans.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to translate complex data into clear insights and practical recommendations.
- Proficiency with tools such as Power BI and other analytics or data visualization platforms.
- Experience working with ERP systems to support demand planning, forecasting, and analysis is required; experience with QAD is preferred.
- Experience implementing or managing demand planning tools or forecasting systems.
- APICS/ASCM certification, such as CPIM or CSCP.
- Commercial sales experience preferred.
- Knowledge of the aerospace industry and its demand drivers.
- Experience with statistical forecasting.
- Travel up to 15%.
- Only U.S. Citizens, Green Card holders, and political asylees or refugees are eligible to apply.
The base salary range for this position is $115,000 to $155,000, with a possibility of an annual bonus up to 10% of base salary. PPG offers comprehensive benefits such as Health, Dental, Life, Retirement Plan, Paid Vacation & Holidays, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Disability/Leave, and other Voluntary benefit offerings. Actual benefit offerings confirmed at the time of hire.
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How we work: At PPG, we bring teams together to accelerate collaboration and career development, with in-person work Monday through Thursday and the opportunity to work remotely on Flexible Fridays. Schedules may vary by location.
