Koch Industries

Private conglomerate in energy and materials

Global Demand Planner

Supply Chain ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

A bachelor's degree or higher in Supply Chain Management, Economics, Finance, or Business Management, or 5+ years of experience in a similar role.
Experience or understanding in Sales, Sales and Operations Planning, or Supply Chain Management.
Practical knowledge of statistical packages such as SAS, SPSS, or similar.

Responsibilities

Own demand forecasts for assigned products and generate and drive the global unconstrained demand forecast, incorporating business projections from Product Management and Sales alongside independent analysis.
Provide the Supply Team with short- and long-term forecasts covering 1–24 months, accounting for value creation, profitability, and forecast accuracy.
Explain forecast gaps to management and internal customers when forecasts fluctuate.
Understand marketing and sales activities and adjust forecasts to minimize excess finished-goods and raw-material inventory.
Work closely with the Supply Planning Team to identify supply shortfalls against forecasts and ensure necessary actions are identified and taken in advance.
Work with Sales, Marketing, and Product Managers to obtain accurate current information and develop mid- to long-term demand forecasts using a collaborative consensus approach.
Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop statistical forecast models for demand-forecast judgment, and evaluate forecast results.
Coordinate cross-functional research to reconcile significant variances and refine forecast models to reflect updated sales and marketing assumptions.
Interact with Sales, Marketing, and Product Managers to understand demand forecast drivers.
Analyze forecast errors and drive continuous improvement in demand predictability.
Use portfolio key performance indicators to support continual improvement.
Coordinate cross-functional activities to reconcile significant variances and refine forecast assumptions.
Engage with Product and Project Managers to account for new-product introduction and ramp-up phases, as well as end-of-production and end-of-life ramp-down phases.
Load and validate updated demand forecasts in Kinaxis Rapid Response and ensure forecast assumptions accurately reflect business assumptions.
Lead meetings with senior management.
Drive the utilization or selection of forecast and demand-planning methodologies and processes.
Drive process improvements that contribute to reducing forecast accuracy error and bias.

Desired Qualifications

Experience or understanding in Sales, Sales and Operations Planning, or Supply Chain Management.
Practical knowledge of statistical packages such as SAS, SPSS, or similar.
Experience with Kinaxis, SAP, BW, and Power BI.

Your Job

Come join us at Molex as a Global Demand Planner!

You will be the owner of Demand Forecast for assigned products, responsible for generating and driving the Global Unconstrained Demand Forecast, incorporating with Business Projection coming from Product Managements, Sales as well as your own analysis. Collaborate with internal/external customers to provide most educated and trustworthy short and long term (1-24 month) forecast to Supply Team with Value Creation/Profitability and Forecast Accuracy in mind. Be able to explain managements and internal customers where the Forecast gaps are coming from when fluctuate. Understand marketing and sales activities, adjust forecast accordingly to minimize excess inventory (Finish Goods and raw material both). Working closely with Supply Planning Team, understand where the shortfall in supply is against our forecast, make sure necessary actions are identified and are taken in advance to accommodate our future demand.

What You Will Do

Demand Forecasting

Utilize a collaborative and consensus approach by working with Sales, Marketing, and Product Managers to obtain and ensure that current and accurate information is used to develop best possible mid to long term demand forecasts.
Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, self-develop statistical forecast models for DF judgement purposes, and evaluate forecast results.
Coordinate cross-functional research activities to reconcile significant variances and refine the forecast model to reflect updated sales and marketing assumptions. Interact with sales, marketing, and product managers to understand demand forecast drivers.
Conduct analysis to identify causes of forecast error and drive continuous improvement in predictability in demand.
Use KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators) of the own portfolio to ensure continual improvement.

GSOP&E (Global Sales, Operations, Planning & Execution)

Coordinate cross-functional activities to reconcile significant variances and refine forecast assumptions.
Engage with Product and Project Managers to consider NPI new product / ramp-up phases and EOP, EOL / ramp-down phases.
Load/validate updated demand forecasts into Kinaxis Rapid Response and ensure forecast assumptions accurately reflect business assumptions.
Ability to lead meetings with members of Senior Management.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

Utilize a collaborative and consensus approach by working with Sales, Marketing, and Product Managers.
Drive utilization and/or selection of forecast/demand planning methodology, process.
Drive process improvements contributing to reduction of forecast accuracy and bias.
Ability to lead meetings with members of Senior Management

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Supply Chain Management, Economics, Finance, Business Management or in lieu, 5+ years of experience in similar role.

What Will Put You Ahead

Experience or understanding in Sales, S&OP or Supply Chain Management. Practical knowledge of stats packages (i.e. SAS, SPSS or similar).
Tools Used: Kinaxis, SAP, BW and PowerBI.

Who We AreAs a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader. Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading-edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our [1] business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
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About the Company

Koch Industries

Private conglomerate in energy and materials

Koch Industries is a large, private, diversified conglomerate that operates in energy, chemical processing, and manufacturing. It started from an innovation that turned heavy crude oil into gasoline and grew through long‑term investments rather than short‑term market moves. The company generates value by refining fuels and producing chemical products, and it operates Georgia-Pacific, a major maker of paper and building products. Its business model relies on reinvesting most earnings back into the company to fund steady, long‑term growth rather than paying out frequent dividends or seeking quick profits. Koch differentiates itself from many competitors by staying privately owned, which reduces pressure from public markets and enables longer‑range planning. The company’s goal is to build scale and durability across its holdings by sustainable, multi‑decade growth rather than rapid, episodic gains.

Company size: 5,001-10,000
Company stage: Growth Equity (Non-Venture Capital)
Total funding: $985.2M
Headquarters: Wichita, KS
Founded: 1940

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