Global Demand Planner

Your Job Come join us at Molex as a Global Demand Planner! You will be the owner of the demand forecast for your assigned products incorporating business insights coming from our product management teams, sales, customers, and your own analysis. Collaborating with internal and external customers to provide a trustworthy 24‑month forecast to our supply team with value creation, profitability and forecast accuracy in mind. Identifying and communicating large forecast variances while adjusting the forecast where necessary to reduce future gaps. Knowledge of sales and marketing activities reflected in your forecasts to minimize excess inventory. Understanding supply shortfalls while promoting action to accommodate our demand in full. Our Team Molex is a leading provider of electronic solutions, committed to innovation and excellence. Our team is dedicated to delivering high‑quality products and services to our customers worldwide. Join us and be part of a dynamic and forward‑thinking organization. What You Will Do Utilize a collaborative and consensus approach by working with sales, marketing, and product managers to obtain and ensure that current and accurate information is used to develop best possible mid to long term demand forecasts. Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, self‑develop statistical forecast models for demand planning judgement purposes, and evaluate forecast results. Coordinate cross‑functional research activities to reconcile significant variances and refine the forecast model to reflect updated sales and marketing assumptions. Interact with sales, marketing, and product managers to understand demand forecast drivers. Load and validate updated demand forecast to the appropriate demand management working environment (Maestro) by the foreseen cadence by using historical bookings, statistical output, OEM forecast where available, market trends and information, forecasts provided by sales engineers, and actual customer firm and forecast figures recorded in SAP. For any part number transitions where forecast and actual should be combined, provide part number, and site detail and apply supersession treatment. Ensure any changes to customer master data (sold‑to customer mapping, product segmentation classification, etc.) are communicated to the appropriate master data coordinator on a regular basis to ensure all reports reflect the most current business organization. Conduct analysis to identify cause of forecast error and drive continuous improvement in predictability in demand. Use KPI's of the own portfolio to ensure continual improvement. Using calculations of forecast accuracy, comet charts and month over month reporting to make improvements in future forecasts. Monitor and elevate the key management issues (capacity constraints, customer hurt ...) to stakeholders (sales and supply planners) connected for specified areas of the business. Proactively support demand planning management to ensure ongoing commitment. Engage with product and project managers to review new product introductions (phase‑ins) and EOL (phase‑outs). Drive utilization and/or selection of forecast/demand planning methodology, process, and software. Drive process improvements contributing to reduction of forecast error and bias. Execute with excellence in customer replenishment and feedback to the supply chain groups the opportunities and risks regarding customer replenishment performance metrics. Perform other related duties as assigned by management. Who You Are (Basic Qualifications) Bachelor's Degree or higher (Preferably Supply Chain Management, Economics, Finance, Business Management) 1 - 5 years of experience in a high volume/high speed corporate environment. Experience or understanding in Sales, S&OP or Supply Chain Management. What Will Put You Ahead Skilled use of SAP, BW, PowerBI and other forecasting systems (Maestro, Oracle, AS400, JDA). Practical knowledge of stats packages (i.e. SAS, SPSS or similar). For this role, we anticipate paying $70,000 - $110,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form. At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy. Hiring Philosophy All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here. Who We Are At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company. Our Benefits Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter. Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results. Equal Opportunities Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. 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