Global Demand Planner

Your Job

Come join us at Molex as a Global Demand Planner!

You will be the owner of the demand forecast for your assigned products incorporating business insights coming from our product management teams, sales, customers, and your own analysis.

Collaborating with internal and external customers to provide a trustworthy 24-month forecast to our supply team with value creation, profitability and forecast accuracy in mind.

Identifying and communicating large forecast variances while adjusting the forecast where necessary to reduce future gaps.

Knowledge of sales and marketing activities reflected in your forecasts to minimize excess inventory.

Understanding supply shortfalls while promoting action to accommodate our demand in full.

Our Team
Molex is a leading provider of electronic solutions, committed to innovation and excellence.

Our team is dedicated to delivering high-quality products and services to our customers worldwide.

Join us and be part of a dynamic and forward-thinking organization.

What You Will Do


* 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 demand planning 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


* Load and validate updated demand forecast to the appropriate demand management working environment (Maestro) by the foreseen cadence by using historical bookings, statistical output, OEM forecast where available, market trends and information, forecasts provided by sales engineers, and actual customer firm and forecast figures recorded in SAP.


* For any part number transitions where forecast and actual should be combined, provide part number, and site detail and apply supersession treatment.


* Ensure any changes to customer master data (sold-to customer mapping, product segmentation classification, etc.) are communicated to the appropriate master data coordinator on a regular basis to ensure all reports reflect the most current business organization.

Conduct analysis to identify cause of forecast error and drive continuous improvement in predictability in demand.


* Use KPI's of the own portfolio to ensure continual improvement.


* Using calculations of forecast accuracy, comet charts and month over month reporting to make improvements in future forecasts.


* Monitor and elevate the key management issues (capacity constraints, customer hurt ...) to stakeholders (sales and supply planners) connected for specified areas of ...