Global demand planner

Job Description

Danfoss is looking for a Global Demand Planner to join our global planning team in Danfoss power electronics and drives (DPD). We are currently on a very exciting journey taking the SIOP process and demand planning to the next level and attaching the process even stronger to the market and our customers. 

In this role you will lead and support the demand planning in the SIOP cycles ensuring close alignment with key stakeholders. You will be working on maturing the demand plan for specific areas and securing the customer inputs, expected market development and other critical elements, all are integrated into the demand plan.
 

Job Responsibilities

• Interact with regional sales teams and business unit stakeholders to understand demand drivers.
• Review historical sales trends and order intake data as input for forecast.
• Analyze and recommend on statistical forecast models including parameter settings.
• Prepare and lead meetings with key stakeholders to collect input for the demand plan.
• Prepare material for sales handshake and build recommendations and highlight observation and risk.
• Participate in quarterly Demand Planning sign-off meeting with sales and business unit leadership.
• Track and analyze forecast precision and implement corrective actions if required.
• Develop the 24 months consensus demand planning forecast for multiple regions and product groups.
• Direct dialogue with KAMs on selected OEM customers.

Background & Skills

• Act confidently and able to lead discussions with a broad span of different stakeholders.
• 2+ years of experience in a Demand Planning or SIOP team, working with different data levels of aggregation and short/mid/long-term demand planning horizon.
• Strong communicator and able to convey messages adapted to the receiving audience.
• Excellent analytical skills and have experience working with big data, ideally experienced in creating Power BI reports
• Should have Knowledge on statistics and specifically statistical forecast models.
• Drive conclusions and recommendations based on data and business understanding.
• Should be able to understand the business & be proactive with pragmatic mindset.
• Experience with and ability to navigate in a large and complex matrix organization.

Danfoss – Engineering Tomorrow

At Danfoss, we are engineering solutions that allow the world to use resources in smarter ways - driving the sustainable transformation of tomorrow. No transformation has ever been started without a group of passionate, dedicated and empowered people. We believe that innovation and great results are driven by the right mix of people with diverse backgrounds, personalities, skills, and perspectives, reflecting the world in which we do business. To make sure the mix of people works, we strive to create an inclusive work environment where people of all backgrounds are treated equally, respected, and valued for who they are. It is a strong priority within Danfoss to improve the health, working environment and safety of our employees.

Following our founder’s mindset “action speaks louder than words”, we set ourselves ambitious targets to protect the environment by embarking on a plan to become CO2 neutral latest by 2030.