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You will be updated with latest job alerts via emailWere seeking a Program Management Director to lead the OCI demand planning
team. The director will enable the strategy and execution of forecasting and
decision making through a strong combination of modeling business intelligence
and market and industry trend analysis. An ideal candidate possesses a deep
experience in developing data analytics creating scenario analysis and partnering
supply management functions. The Program Management Director possesses
advanced knowledge of process improvement and actively drives iteration and
new learnings into the inputs and methods for strategic requirement forecasting.
Responsibilities:
Lead team to transform OCIs demand planning practice to scale
Develop iterate and maintain end to end long-range demand planning models
at the customer initiative SKU and geo level. The plan will allow the team to
correctly predict product demand and provide supply chain with the
appropriate information to meet the customer demand.
Build demand plans based on strategic goals business trends and inputs
from stakeholders. Interact with engineering customer management
product management networking datacenter and finance to understand
demand requirements.
Socialize demand plans with senior leaders in capacity planning and
operations supply chain engineering customer management and finance to
achieve alignment.
Identify demand forecast risks and develop prioritized effective flexible and
durable mitigation strategies.
Facilitate healthy balance between long range planning and short-term
execution. Understand end to end supply chain flow to help ensure customer
demand is met.
Collaborate with product management to understand product lifecycle
transition and how that impacts forecasting.
Provide direct inputs and analysis of demand data to management finance
and operational teams in creating and maintaining the corporate S&OP
process.
Develop routine and ad-hoc demand analyses and reports for senior
management.
Maintain demand planning review processes to improve forecast accuracy.
Demand planning is both science and art. It is critical to understand how to
translate business strategy into forecasting models both quantitatively and
qualitatively.
Work with business intelligence teams to translate planning processes into
system models to determine and plan resource needs that meets capacity
and performance needs.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelors degree in Business Administration Supply Chain Management
Engineering or related fields
5 years relevant experience within demand planning and forecasting
Demand planning experience at hyperscalers
Extensive experience in developing demand plans and forecasts for new and
existing products
Understand impact of revenue goals customer usage overhead and buffer
data center space and power availability on capacity management.
Demonstrate excellent analytical skills and meet deadlines with a strong
desire to execute tasks with quality and a sense of urgency.
Experienced with forecasting and demand planning for server storage and
networking
Experienced with infrastructure hardware memory CPU JBoDs servers
etc. Ability to read and interpret product BOM and documentation.
Advanced in Excel modeling and building complex forecasting models with
multiple inputs to drive recommendations and decisions
Ability to both dive deep into data and synthesize findings and insights for
exec level communication
Expert in Excel data analytics to drive action and outcome
Experienced in working with VPs and Executives
Preferred Qualifications:
Thrive in ambiguity and ability to make high judgement decisions from
ambiguous context.
Ability to translate large amounts of data into useful information and draw
conclusions.
Maintain key operational metrics that measure demand planning performance
driving continuous improvement.
Experience with building and improving business processes.
Ability to work with technical and non-technical business owners to overcome
obstacles and deliver results.
7 years experience with Microsoft office (PowerPoint Excel Word Outlook
Access).
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present
complex information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences.
Ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workloads.
Working proficiency of SQL.
Career Level - M4
Required Experience:
Director
Full-Time