Manager, Demand

Job Description
The
Manager, Demand
provides strategic leadership, superior customer service, project leadership and operational support in inventory management, product replenishment, forecasting, budgeting, and continuous improvement. Position plays a key role in a customer driven supply chain organization charged with identifying, implementing and enhancing successful methods of delivering superior service and the lowest cost.

This position supports our
US Air Division
, based in
San Antonio, TX
. This is a Hybrid position.

Responsibilities

• Lead inventory planning for select Rheem business units, guiding demand planning through a data-driven approach supported by market insights from the sales team.
• Facilitate cross-functional meetings and demonstrate intellectual curiosity to understand how Rheem's HVAC products serve diverse market segments such as retail appliance dealers, hotel and lodging, MROs, and HVAC distributors.
• Support global sourcing strategies for finished goods and components, playing a key role in supplier relationships with both Asian and North American vendors.
• Ensure consistent application of industry-leading, continuously improved business practices.
• Act as an internal consultant on supply chain-related issues; design and implement improvements to support business growth and strategic initiatives.
• Manage supply chain's impact on working capital, ensuring financial risk is mitigated.
• Coordinate with logistics and warehouse teams to determine optimal stocking strategies across select Rheem distribution centers.
• Develop inventory management strategies to maximize inventory turns, secure best pricing, maintain high quality, and ensure consistent support to manufacturing.
• Collaborate with manufacturing to evaluate outsourcing and insourcing opportunities.
• Identify key suppliers and cultivate long-term, mutually beneficial relationships to ensure sustained success.
• Hold suppliers accountable for continuous improvement initiatives, including lead time reduction, schedule flexibility, quality enhancement, inventory reduction, and cost savings.
• Oversee the business unit's logistics function, including development and maintenance of inventory controls.
• Create and execute communication and management of resources across business segments.
• Establish the SIOP processes to provide better market intelligence, improve demand planning accuracy, balance the supply and demand plan with a forward-looking view, and highlight areas of risk for contingency planning and decision making.
• Support demand planning process designed to integrate feedback from Sales, Marketing, Operation, Scheduling, Finance, Logistics, and Sourcing teams to develop the monthly, quarterly and annual demand consensus plan by channel, key customers and products.
• Proactively identify relevant demand trends and portfolio impacts, leveraging development of data analytics, as well as new product forecast refinement
• Proactively identify supply constraints and propose solutions
• Leads the demand planning consensus process including taking into account inputs from statistical models, sales and marketing insights, and other analyses while collaborating with cross functional teams including commercial and supply chain. This position will also be responsible for managing relevant measures (KPIs) to help drive better forecast accuracy and lower error rate
• Review, scrub and analyze the forecast through scrutiny of variances, historical sales trends including rolling averages, year over year data, research of demand drivers, and other customer and market related changes
• Ensure that the agreed consensus forecast is passed accurately and at the appropriate level of detail to the production planning systems, on a timely basis
• Leads and owns master data in support of efficiency and accuracy in plan
• Perform other duties as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, Industrial Engineering, Logistics, or a related analytical business field.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in logistics, supply chain, and distribution.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Proficient in MS Office Suite and ERP/MRP systems; Oracle ERP experience is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively in a matrixed team environment.
• Strong, results oriented leadership that includes development and deployment of improvement initiatives, timelines, and budgets.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in related field
• Multi-lingual proficiency – English and Spanish
• Experience in an HVAC manufacturing environment preferred.
• International supplier experience.
• Proficiency is working with large data sets.

About Us
At Rheem, we are dedicated to bringing comfort to people's lives. As a leading global manufacturer of heating, cooling and water heating equipment, we are innovating all-new ways to deliver just the right temperature while saving energy, water and supporting a more sustainable future. It is an exciting challenge that requires a team of talented, passionate people with a diverse set of skills. From engineers to accountants, sales professionals to support experts, Rheem depends on people to power our innovations. Join Rheem, and help shape the future of products that impact lives—every day.

Our Behavior Based Values Set Us Apart

• Listening to Understand – Open mind, learning from others, accepting feedback, embracing the objective
• Contributing Respectfully - Sharing opinions, valuing ideas, sharing opposing perspectives with respect
• Thinking Creatively – Applying creativity, seeking improvements, understanding from the customers' lens
• Acting with Responsibility – Owning decisions and actions, acting with integrity, embracing accountability

Rheem is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Rheem encourages all qualified candidates to apply, including those of any race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. The job description above has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equivalent combination of education, experience, and skills may supplement above minimum job requirements.

For U.S. Based jobs, please note that Rheem is unable to hire candidates to be employed in the following states: Alaska, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, or Vermont.

Rheem and its subsidiaries do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of an executed Recruitment Services Agreement, there will be no obligation to any referral compensation or recruiter fee.