Senior Manager, Global Forecasting & Inventory

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What you will do

Johnson Controls is seeking a Senior Manager, Global Forecasting & Inventory to join our Global Parts Planning organization. As an experienced leader on this team, you will play a critical role in ensuring accurate forecast to allow for seamless service parts execution while improving inventory health and overseeing the system and process improvements required to support growing complexities to best serve our customers. This global role will collaborate with all regions and business units, taking on the responsibility of creating accurate forecasts, efficient inventory plans, and defining and executing the global sales and operations planning (S&OP) process. Success in this role will increase service levels, drive inventory optimization, and enable revenue growth and margin improvement for the business. This is a great opportunity for someone to develop and implement a global inventory planning program from the ground up!

How you will do it

The Senior Manager of Global Forecasting & Inventory will use historical data, market trends, and customer demand insights to develop precise forecast for aftermarket service parts. They will also design and implement inventory strategies to improve inventory turns while meeting service level targets, manage and reduce the use of excess and obsolete inventory globally, as well as develop best practices in inventory management by defining segmentation, safety stock optimization and replenishment parameters.

Get ready to collaborate with regional planning and Field service teams to gather inputs and ensure alignment with global objectives! You will lead the development and implementation of the global sales and operations planning process, ensuring alignment with the organizations overall strategic objectives. What else is exciting about this role is you will have the opportunity to lead and develop best in class planning processes to shift the organization from reactive to predictive planning.

Is driving cross-functional collaboration and facilitating regular S&OP meetings a strength of yours? Then keep reading! You will be responsible for reviewing demand plans, inventory positions, and supply constraints as well as ensure consensus and decision-making to balance demand and supply across the organization. You will also collaborate closely with forecast analyst, inventory optimization analyst to provide guidance, support, and mentorship.

What you will need
Required

• 12 years' experience in Forecasting, Inventory planning and management experience, S&OP, preferably in an aftermarket service industry

• 5+ years management/leadership experience

• Demonstrated leadership experience in Forecasting and inventory planning, S&OP Process

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, Engineering, Business, Operations Management, or related field OR equivalent experience

• Willingness to travel both domestic and internationally (20-30%) to develop firsthand understanding of sites and the wider organizational challenge

Preferred

• Advance Degree, MS and/or MBA

• APICs certification

• Experience in leading and implementing process improvement initiatives

HIRING SALARY RANGE: $141,000-211,000 (Salary to be determined by the education, experience,knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with marketdata.) This position includes a competitive benefits package. The posted salary range reflectsthe target compensation for this role. However, we recognize that exceptional candidatesmay bring unique skills and experiences that exceed the typical profile. If you believe yourbackground warrants consideration beyond the stated range, we encourage you to apply. Tosupport an efficient and fair hiring process, we may use technology assisted tools, includingartificial intelligence (AI), to help identify and evaluate candidates. All hiring decisions areultimately made by human reviewers. For details, please visit the About Us tab on theJohnson Controls Careers site at https://jobs.johnsoncontrols.com/about-us