Demand Planner in Sunbury-on-Thames

The Demand Planners main responsibility is to collate AMETEK Air technology demand stream and ensure that our business is driving towards a validated demand profile that will delight our customers. This will include series production – firm and forecast demand, Bidding on exciting new technology and scheduling our new product development team.

Responsibilities will include:

• Run the monthly site Demand Review as part of the Sales & Operations cycle. This will be working alongside our SLT.
• Analyze market trends and present data to help inform effective decision making at Senior Levels in the business to ensure we respond to market trends
• Provide a framework to capture future demand from our customer base
• Working closely with business development, engineering and project management to ensure we are able to deliver bids on time to meet deadlines
• Help our departmental heads understand future staffing levels required across new product development through running a collation of demand from all areas of the business.
• Develop our business planning process to ensure new products can be developed on time to market and customer needs
• Be accountable for the Original Equipment demand expressed in our Navision system
• Support the Production Department for \”What ifs\” and/or Demand analysis.
• Maintain Demand Plan KPIs for the site. This will include demand forecast accuracy (conversion rate) along with business exposure to risk.

Skills Required:

• Strong Indirect leadership and ability to influence
• Good understanding of the complete Planning process: Sales & Operations Planning, the Master Scheduling and Shop floor planning
• Ability to analyse data with a high degree of efficiency to summarise the information
• Ability to work with different levels of management
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Good Microsoft Office suite knowledge
• No formal qualifications required
• Ideally at least 2 years of experience within a planning role in any industry