Regional Demand Manager

SGL Carbon’s Moses Lake facility is located in the heart of Washington state. This facility takes advantage of the abundant renewable electricity provided by nearby hydro-electric dams located throughout Grant County. It utilizes this electricity to power its large convection ovens and furnaces, converting Polyacrylonitrile into high strength carbon fiber. The Moses Lake facility is the premier Carbon Fiber producer of SGL Carbon’s North American operations. Built in 2011, this facility is one of the most technologically advanced 50K carbon fiber producers in the world. The campus consists of 3 production buildings housing 5 operating carbon fiber lines, a warehouse and an administration building. SGL Carbon’s Moses Lake facility employs over 150 well trained, dedicated, and safety minded team members.

The Regional Demand Planner is responsible for coordination of material availability and communication. 

Key Accountabilities: 

• Determines FFS demands by using forecasts, statistical models, and cross-functional communication with regional sales team. 
• Perform translation process for repetitive sales forecasts, internal demands and opportunities into FFS demand (including OMP), also considering utilization of remnants. 
• Leads monthly demand reviews together with Sales and Sales Controlling, including challenging of Sales' forecasts and requesting countermeasures for unconsumed forecast. 
• Facilitate discussions regarding critical FFS materials and free to sell (excess) materials at regional level S&OP consensus meetings. 
• Coordination of material availability and demands with Regional Demand Managers and Sales from other regions (call-ffs). 
• Collaborates with Product Management and Supply Planning to properly plan for new items and items to be transitioned or discontinued. 
• Ensure demand plans are created, reviewed, agreed upon, updated and communicated to Supply Planning at least monthly for a rolling 12-month planning horizon. 
• Establishes, monitors, and reports appropriate demand planning metrics such as FFS planning accuracy and material availability.  Takes actions to continuously improve demand planning metrics and processes. 
• Regulates and adjusts FFS inventory levels, with a view toward customer satisfaction and business objectives. 
• Support site and Business Unit level targets such as Safety, OTD, financials, etc.  Provides information as needed to develop accurate inventory forecasts. 
• Responsible for the internal order management for FFS materials within region and import compliance for orders placed outside of the United States. 
• Contributes and participates in project-related tasts and will be responsible for assigned work packages. 
   

Your Profile: 

• Deep knowledge and understanding of planning processes and logistics
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written 
• Able to effectively present information and respond to questions from management and customers 
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions 
• Bachelor degree or equivalent qualification gained through professional training and experience during career 
• Five years working in a planning function (production planning, demand planning or material management)

Physical Demands: 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

 The employee is regularly required to sit, stand, and walk, and is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and talk or hear.    Frequently, the employee will be required to lift 10 pounds and on occasion, the employee is required to lift or move up to 25 pounds, and rarely, the employee will be required to lift-up to 50 pounds.  This position requires close vision, the ability to adjust focus, distance vision, depth perception, and peripheral vision.  Good color vision is important to this role.

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What we offer:

• Medical with Prescription Drug Program
• Dental Plan
• Vision Plan
• Flexible Spending Accounts / Health Savings Account
• Company-paid Short and Long Term Disability
• Company-paid Basic Life / Accidental Death and Dismemberment / Travel Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Optional Life Insurance / AD&D for Employee and Dependents
• 401k Savings Plan with company match
• Additional Company contribution to 401k after 1 year of employment
• Paid Time Off: 120 hours annually (increases by 8 hours each year, rollover up to 80 hours)
• Company Paid Holidays: 12 paid holidays plus up to 3 additional floating holidays based on hire date