Senior Demand Planning Manager

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we're guided by a shared purpose - helping people be their best in the moments that matter - and we live up to our purpose every day by solving for safer. Because people can only be their best when they not only feel safe, but are safe. We're solving for safer by building the best possible technologies across every part of our safety and security ecosystem. That's mission-critical communications devices and networks, AI-powered video security & access control and the ability to unite voice, video and data in a single command center view. We're solving for safer by connecting public safety agencies and enterprises, enabling the collaboration that's critical to connect those in need with those who can help. The work we do here matters.

Department Overview

The Supply Chain and Procurement organization is a fast-paced and dynamic environment, delivering world-class communications equipment and solutions for customers around the world. Our purpose is to deliver exceptional value and customer experience through agility, speed, and collaboration. We plan what products and services are needed, source efficiently and ethically from a diverse supply base, launch new products, make and deliver solutions on time, and exceed customer expectations through outstanding quality, service and support. We are designed to bring value, lead technology innovation, and provide Motorola Solutions a competitive advantage on revenue, cost, cash, and delivery.

The Demand Planning Manager is a member of the Global Demand Planning leadership team that is responsible for developing a demand plan, chairing S&OP, and executing a multi year strategic road map to achieve business objectives for a revenue portfolio in excess of $2B.

Job Description

This is a hybrid role where you will be spending time on-site at our downtown Chicago office.

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• Manage team of ~5 Demand Planning Analysts - Responsible for hiring, managing, training, developing and evaluating the team.

• Oversees team to ensure they are appropriately utilizing systems, following standard work processes, completing required tasks accurately and within established deadlines. Monitors progress to goals and supports resolution of issues.

• Forecast Accuracy - create and implement processes to achieve best in class performance.

• Demand Stability - identify practices that cause gyration to the supply base and systematically resolve.

• Inventory - Collaborate with Supply Planning to achieve inventory targets

• Excess & Obsolescence - Collaborate with Supply Planning to mitigate opportunities.

• Sales & Operations Planning - Drive alignment with Sales, Finance, Supply, Product and Engineering teams on demand plan over 2-year planning horizon.

• Cost - Drive efficiency in all areas of work and allocate resources to best achieve expected outcomes.

• Organizational and talent development - develop and retain a highly productive and efficient team while driving a succession pipeline.

• Coordinate across demand and supply teams in other regions - Participate in strategy development and lead programs to drive global adoption of best practices, innovations in planning while allowing for regional flexibility.

• Other duties as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications and Skills:

• Proven leader who is action oriented and driven to create value and make an impact.

• Passionate about driving improvements and deploying best practices with an evolving, performance-based environment.

• A self starter requiring little oversight or direction.

• Thrives in an environment that requires influence of others through a combination of analytics and relationship building.

• Ability to work globally and navigate cultural sensitivity and awareness of the appropriate leadership style for a given geography.

• Works collaboratively across a complex organization considering end to end impacts, can scale leadership to work effectively with Senior management and line-level employees.

• Maintains the highest levels of personal and professional integrity, ethics and unquestioned integrity in each of his/her initiatives.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills including effective use of presentations.

• Ability to summarize complex topics into simple and relevant factors for leadership.

• Analytical acumen; obtain, organize, and draw insights from multiple data sources.

• Experience driving cross-functional alignment through S&OP or consensus planning processes.

• Strong change management skills with proven success in delivering complex projects.

  <