Demand Planning Manager

The Demand Planning Manager is responsible for developing maintaining and communicating the demand forecast for Regal Rexnord industrial motor product lines across multiple regions channels and customer segments. This high-level individual contributor role owns the demand signal and partners closely with Sales Product Management Finance Operations Manufacturing Procurement and Supply Chain to translate market and customer inputs into an accurate actionable demand plan.

The role is critical to improving forecast accuracy reducing forecast bias supporting supply continuity and enabling the business to balance customer service production capacity inventory investment and working capital objectives.

Key Responsibilities

Demand Planning & Forecasting

• Develop and maintain monthly quarterly and annual demand forecasts for industrial motor product lines across regions channels and customers.
• Analyze historical sales trends market signals customer demand patterns seasonality and business intelligence to improve forecast quality.
• Build statistical forecasts and incorporate commercial product and operational inputs into a consensus demand plan.
• Evaluate forecast assumptions identify demand drivers and communicate risks opportunities and changes to stakeholders.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Sales Product Management Finance Operations Manufacturing Procurement and Supply Chain to align demand plans with business objectives.
• Facilitate demand review discussions and drive consensus forecasting without direct authority.
• Communicate forecast changes assumptions and business impacts in a clear actionable manner.

S&OP / SIOP Support

• Serve as a key contributor to the monthly S&OP / SIOP process.
• Prepare demand review materials forecast performance summaries and executive-level updates.
• Collaborate with supply planning teams to understand constraints and reflect supply realities in planning assumptions.

Inventory & Supply Chain Alignment

• Partner with production planning procurement and inventory teams to support supply continuity and inventory optimization.
• Monitor demand-driven inventory requirements and recommend actions that balance service levels inventory turns and working capital.
• Identify demand variability risks and recommend mitigation actions.

Product Lifecycle Support

• Support new product introductions product transitions promotions and end-of-life planning.
• Partner with Product Management to quantify demand impacts from launch phase-in phase-out and customer conversion activity.
• Monitor adoption rates volume transitions and demand shifts across product families channels and customer segments.

Analytics Reporting & Continuous Improvement

• Develop and maintain forecasting models reporting tools dashboards and executive readouts.
• Prepare analysis on demand trends forecast accuracy forecast bias inventory health service performance and capacity risk.
• Perform root cause analysis of forecast misses and demand variability.
• Identify opportunities to improve forecasting methods planning cadence data quality and system utilization.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelors degree in Supply Chain Business Engineering Operations Finance or a related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in demand planning forecasting supply chain planning or S&OP / SIOP.
• Experience in manufacturing industrial products motors automation power transmission or engineered equipment industries.
• Strong analytical quantitative and problem-solving skills with the ability to convert data into actionable recommendations.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel capability and experience working with ERP / MRP systems such as SAP Oracle JD Edwards or equivalent systems.
• Experience with forecasting and planning tools.
• Strong communication presentation and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive alignment without direct authority.

Preferred

• APICS CPIM CSCP IBF or equivalent supply chain certification.
• Experience participating in or supporting a mature S&OP / SIOP process.
• Knowledge of industrial motor markets OEM channels distribution networks and aftermarket demand patterns.
• Experience with Power BI Tableau Snowflake or advanced analytics platforms.
• Experience with demand sensing and scenario planning methods.
• Exposure to multi-site manufacturing and global supply chain environments.

Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States without requiring company sponsorship to obtain or keep U.S. work authorization.

• Medical Dental Vision and Prescription Drug Coverage
• Spending accounts (HSA Health Care FSA and Dependent Care FSA)
• Paid Time Off and Holidays
• 401k Retirement Plan with Matching Employer Contributions
• Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
• Paid Leaves
• Tuition Assistance

Regal Rexnord is a publicly held global industrial manufacturer with 30000 associates around the world who help create a better tomorrow by providing sustainable solutions that power transmit and control motion. The Companys electric motors and air moving subsystems provide the power to create motion. A portfolio of highly engineered power transmission components and subsystems efficiently transmits motion to power industrial applications. The Companys automation offering comprised of controls actuators drives and precision motors controls motion in applications ranging from factory automation to precision control in surgical tools.

The Companys end markets benefit from meaningful secular demand tailwinds and include factory automation food & beverage aerospace medical data center warehouse alternative energy residential and commercial buildings general industrial construction metals and mining and agriculture.

Regal Rexnord is comprised of three operating segments: Industrial Powertrain Solutions Power Efficiency Solutions and Automation & Motion Control. Regal Rexnord has offices and manufacturing sales and service facilities worldwide. For more information including a copy of our Sustainability Report visit .

Regal Rexnord is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex/gender sexual orientation gender identity pregnancy age ancestry national origin genetic information marital status citizenship status (unless required by the applicable law or government contract) disability or protected veteran status or any other status or characteristic protected by law. Regal Rexnord is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are committed to building a team that represents diverse and inclusive backgrounds perspectives and skills. If youd like to view a copy of the companys affirmative action plan for protected veterans/individuals with disabilities or policy statement please email you have a disability and you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to submit an online application please e-mail

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