Senior Demand Planning Leader | Drive Forecasts & Growth

nVent; Anoka (MN); On-site; USD 124,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

nVent is seeking a senior professional to lead the Data Solutions demand planning function in the Minneapolis area. You will mentor demand planners into analysts who translate commercial inputs into actionable plans and manage the monthly Demand Review from data readiness to financial reconciliation.

You will partner with Sales, Product, Finance, and Operations to align on one planning signal and establish governance for a rapidly growing make-to-order portfolio.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Finance, Operations, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years experience in demand planning, forecasting, SIOP/IBP, supply chain planning, commercial planning, or related manufacturing-planning roles is highly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading a demand review or consensus forecasting process across Sales, Product, Finance, and Supply Chain.
• Strong analytical capability with forecast accuracy and bias, segmentation, scenario analysis, backlog and pipeline interpretation, and financial/unit reconciliation.
• Working knowledge of ERP/MRP and planning systems.
• Advanced degree and APICS CPIM/CSCP, IBF, or equivalent planning certification.
• Experience in high-growth, make-to-order, configure-to-order, engineered-product, or limited-history environments.
• Experience with JDE, Power BI, advanced Excel, or comparable planning and analytics tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Data Solutions demand planning function and develop demand planners into business-facing analysts who challenge assumptions, quantify risk, and translate commercial inputs into an actionable plan.
• Lead the monthly Demand Review operating process, including prework, data readiness, assumption review, scenario development, consensus building, decision capture, and handoff into Supply Review and financial reconciliation.
• Create and maintain the approved unconstrained demand plan across product families, value streams, customers, programs, and time horizons, clearly separating firm backlog and orders from forecast and opportunity assumptions.
• Partner with Sales, Product Management, Program Management, Finance, SIOP, Supply Chain, and Operations to reconcile differing demand views and establish one agreed planning signal.
• Establish forecast governance, hierarchy, segmentation, and analytical methods appropriate for a rapidly growing make-to-order and configure-to-order portfolio, including standard-product demand where history is limited.
• Own demand assumptions, risks, and opportunities, including phase-in/phase-out, new-product ramps, customer timing changes, upside/downside scenarios, cancellations, and forecast-consumption and time-fence logic.
• Drive demand-change control so material or customer changes are visible, quantified, traceable, and communicated before they cascade into the master schedule, material plan, capacity plan, or customer commitments.
• Improve forecast accuracy and bias through root-cause analysis at the level where decisions are made, distinguishing structural forecast error from timing shifts, one-time program moves, and growth assumptions.
• Create demand analytics connecting units, mix, revenue, backlog, forecast, and opportunity pipeline so leadership understands both the base plan and plausible outcome range.
• Ensure new products, lifecycle transitions, site transfers, and end-of-life events are reflected in the demand plan with explicit timing and assumptions.
• Partner with Master Scheduling and Supply Planning to translate the demand signal into the MPS and constrained supply process without creating competing plans.
• Build standard work, role clarity, planning calendars, data definitions, scorecards, and continuous-improvement routines that mature demand planning as the business scales.

Skills

Demand planning

Forecasting

SIOP/IBP

ERP/MRP

Power BI

Advanced Excel

JDE

CPIM/CSCP

Education

Bachelor's degree

APICS CPIM/CSCP

Tools

JDE

Power BI

Excel

Job description

nVent is seeking a senior professional to lead the Data Solutions demand planning function in the Minneapolis area. You will mentor demand planners into analysts who translate commercial inputs into actionable plans and manage the monthly Demand Review from data readiness to financial reconciliation.

You will partner with Sales, Product, Finance, and Operations to align on one planning signal and establish governance for a rapidly growing make-to-order portfolio.