Job details

Domain

Performance and Support

Job field / Job profile

Supply chain - Demand manager

Job title

Demand Manager, Integrated Business Planning (IBP)

Employment type

Permanent

Professional category

Professional, Engineer & Manager

Part time / Full time

Full-time

Job description

The Demand Manager is responsible for establishing, structuring, and leading the Demand Management function for the full Water & Waste business, including Linefit (OEM), Retrofit, Spares, and Repair / MRO activities.
This position owns the end to end demand process, ensuring the consolidation, validation, and governance of a single, reliable, unconstrained Demand Plan over a 3-5 year horizon, used as the primary input for Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), Supply Chain, Industrial Planning, and Finance (Budget, MTP, RoFo).

The role operates in a highly cross functional environment, acting as a business integrator between Sales, Programs, Customer Support & Services, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Finance to enable aligned, data driven decision making.

Summary of Duties:
Demand Ownership & Business Scope
• Consolidate and manage all demand streams for the business:
o OEM / Linefit
o Retrofit
o Spares
o Repairs / Services (MRO)
o Internal demand (development, qualification, prototypes, tests)
• Build and maintain a single Demand Plan combining firm orders and forecasts.
• Ensure coherence between demand, revenue outlook, industrial assumptions, and financial targets.
Process Creation & Governance
• Design, deploy, and continuously improve the Demand Management process, aligned with Safran S&OP standards.
• Define demand rules, models, assumptions, and planning horizons.
• Establish formal Demand Review governance, cadence, and deliverables.
Forecasting & Scenario Management
• Develop forecasting models using quantitative and qualitative inputs.
• Build and maintain Low / Medium / High demand scenarios.
• Analyze forecast accuracy, stability, and bias; implement corrective actions.
• Proactively challenge commercial and program assumptions to protect business robustness.
S&OP & Cross Functional Integration
• Prepare and facilitate monthly Demand Reviews.
• Ensure formal validation and release of the Demand Plan as S&OP input.
• Support Supply Reviews and Executive S&OP discussions with clear analytics and scenarios.
Data Integrity & Systems
• Ensure demand data consistency across ERP, CRM, and planning tools.
• Define and maintain demand master data and parameters.
• Ensure alignment between Demand Plan, ERP loading logic, and downstream material planning (including spares and MRO specifics).
Performance & Continuous Improvement
• Define, monitor, and improve Demand KPIs:
o Demand stability
o Forecast accuracy
o Firm demand completeness
• Conduct maturity assessments of demand practices.
• Act as primary interface between Sales, Programs, Customer Support & Services, Supply Chain, Engineering, and Finance.

Candidate skills & requirements

Experience:
• 5-10 years of experience in Demand Management, S&OP, IBP, Supply Chain, or Business Planning
• Experience in industrial and aftermarket environments, including Spares and/or MRO
• Proven experience designing or deploying structured planning processes
• Experience operating in a cross functional, matrix organization
• Aerospace or complex industrial environment experience preferred

Preferred Qualifications (Not Required)
• Experience with ERP driven demand planning (e.g., M3 or equivalent)
• Exposure to regulated or customer critical environments
• International business experience
• Advanced Excel proficiency; BI tools (e.g., Power BI) a plus

Knowledge and skills:
• Must have solid knowledge of commercial, regional, and executive aircraft market segments, including customer familiarity and personal contacts.
• Must possess effective networking and communication skills (both internal and external).
• Must have product knowledge or the ability to learn and understand technical requirements of Company products.
• Must have the knowledge or the ability to learn and understand customer technical and commercial requirements. Must have effective leadership and team building skills.
• Must have excellent customer service skills.
• Must have above average skills in MSWord, Excel, Power Point and a working knowledge of MRP systems.
• Must have excellent personal skills to develop and maintain personal relationships with customers.
• Must have the ability to close business transactions.

Communication Skills:
• Must have the ability to generate clear, high level, effective, written business communication and the ability to read and understand written communication.
• Speech and hearing abilities that allow individual to communicate clearly and distinctly in English and the ability to communicate with International customers that communicate in English as a second language.

Reasoning Ability:
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exist.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.

Annual salary

$94,230-$148,070 Annually

Job location

Job location

North America, United States, California

City (-ies)

CA 90746 Carson

Applicant criteria

Minimum education level achieved

Master Degree

Minimum experience level required

More than 5 years

ITAR Controlled Position: Select "Yes" if role requires U.S. citizenship/permanent residency

No