How you will contribute:

The Demand Planning Manager position will have responsibility for both purchased and produced material forecasting, replenishment and management. This role will ensure material availability using optimum inventory based on best practices to ensure on time availability and delivery to the customer. This position will work closely with sales and marketing, finance production and scheduling and select vendors to ensure customer service achieves or exceeds determined levels. As Con-Air transforms and evolves, so will the scope of this role

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

• Create and manage both long and short term demand plans for all produced and purchased finished goods.
• Report forecast performance monthly to all Senior managers and Executive leaders.
• Build relationship with purchased finished goods vendors and communicate material needs based on best practices.
• Continuously review material for excess or insufficient quantities
• Manage the slow moving and obsolete items report. Additionally work with production to determine alternate uses for slow and obsolete materials.
• Attend GEMBA meetings with the production leaders – each shift, looking at late, current, and future demand and creating a material plan to meet customer demand while reducing cost
• Manage the Customer -- act as an interface between the production floor and customer, communicate problems and appropriately deal with customer demand to ensure zero late
• Continuous improvement -- participate in continuous improvement activities that drive the KPI's

Qualified Applicants preferred experience:

• 2+ years of related forecasting experience
• Knowledge of forecast measurements such as error, MAPE etc.
• Ability to work collaboratively with all cross-functional partners..
• Proficient in MS Office
• Ability to problem solve and the ability to multi-task are required.
• Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision.

Minimum – College Degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering or Quantitative Science filed of study.

More About Filtration Group

Filtration Group is on a mission to make the world safer, healthier and more productive. With a passionate workforce, global footprint and world class engineering and manufacturing capabilities, we are driving innovation and developing solutions across a broad spectrum of applications in the fast-growing and rapidly-evolving global filtration industry. We are committed to maintaining an entrepreneurial culture built on a foundation of trust and in which our leaders exhibit a strong bias for action.   

The Company began in 2009 and has rapidly grown organically and through a thoughtful acquisition strategy to be a global leader in the highly attractive filtration industry. Filtration Group has the broadest portfolio of solutions in the industry and has had a particular focus on building a leading platform of solutions focused on the Life Sciences and Indoor Air Quality end markets which are rapidly growing in the current market environment. Filtration Group produces mission critical products with high replacement rates.  Over 80 percent of the Company’s revenue comes from replacement / consumable products, many of which are specified into customer’s products or processes.  With revenues over $2 billion, Filtration Group is consistently recognized as the fastest growing and one of the largest filtration businesses in the world and has a global footprint of 141 facilities in 28 countries. Filtration Group has over 10,000 employees who are united in their Mission to make the world safer, healthier and more productive.