Demand Planning Manager - DEMAN004827

Wagner Equipment Co. offers challenging career opportunities, extensive

training and employee development along with an opportunity to grow your

career and thrive under Wagners reputation for excellence. We offer excellent

benefits and supply you with the tools you need to maximize your potential and

grow within Wagner.

Benefits Include

Paid Time Off (PTO) Plan - Up to 96 hours of PTO in your first year + 8

company paid holidays

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Life and AD&D Insurance

Retirement Plans - 401K and Roth 401K , eligible employees can receive a

company contribution up to 7%

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

CEFCU- Citizens Equity First Credit Union - Employees have access to services

include payroll deductions savings, accounts, loans, VISA card, and more.

Additional Benefits include: Unum Supplemental life Insurance, Aflac

Critical Illness + Accidental Insurance, ID WatchDog and discounted

employee phone plans.

The Demand Planning Manager is responsible for the execution of Wagner

Equipment Co.s and Wagner Rents equipment ordering, demand planning, and

new inventory management strategies (machines and attachments) in a manner

that reflects the companys vision of working as One Professional Team. This

position must be able to provide a clear demand signal that is based on

maximizing inventory turns, rental washout, inventory spend, and order

accuracy while minimizing exposure to aged assets. This position will also be

responsible for managing a respective portion of the Sales & Operations

Planning process to ensure that the ordering of machines and attachments will

happen in a timely manner that meets the needs of stakeholders while

minimizing the time spent in inventory. Constant communication and execution

of the defined processes are essential.

Pay Rate:$70,212.99 - $96,548.42 Annually

Pay rate is dependent upon education & experience.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities

To Perform These Essential Functions.

Manages the ordering and demand process for New, Cat Rental Store

(CRS), and Heavy Rents

Manages and maintains the dealer demand velocity solution (DDVS) process

to include for the defined ordering responsibility, to include Base Order

Management (BOM) and Order Range Supply

Works in conjunction with the Sales Management team, CRS, Heavy Rents,

define day-to-day ordering needs and executes those needs through the purchase

order process

Produces monthly, quarterly and annual reporting of both unit count

projections and cash flow projections based on incoming and outgoing inventory

units and signals from the business thus providing executive leaders and

stakeholders a clear line of sight to overall inventory spend

Creates processes and executes all purchase orders for their defined ordering

responsibility

Manages new machine & attachment inventory for aging purposes and uses all

means necessary to ensure turns objectives are met and WECO and Rents

maximizes overall inventory spend

Identifies machines within the new inventory that fall outside of aged machine

targets and works with the used equipment manager to define an exit strategy

for the given machine

Communicates aged machine inventory initiatives to the sales team as needed

Maintains and manages the product creation process to include creating and

managing products, standard configurations, and models

Works with sales, Wagner Rents, & Heavy Rents to identify standard

configurations that are designed to give WECO and Rents flexibility across all

fleets to drive key metrics (turns, utilization, washout, etc.)

Creates equipment movement records, reservations, and fleet transfer for

fixed assets as needed

Assists Sales Department in location of machines through dealer network

Works with the Sales and Rental Ops Manager, and VP of Sales to determine

when the projected inventory spend is expected to excee defined thresholds

and develops a plan to address as necessary

Works within and promote corporate vision, mission, and values of the

organization

Understands the process specing equipment for the multi applications in the

territory we serve

Other duties as assigned by manager

Supervisory Responsibilities

Direct reports may include: Equipment Inventory Manager, Sales and Rental

Analysts

Strong ability to lead and assist the equipment inventory control for

processes, ordering and locating equipment

Required Education And Experience

High School Diploma or GED

College Degree Required

3+ years administrative/clerical experience

5+ years customer service experience

3+ years sales experience

3+ years supervisory experience

3+ years technical or mechanical experience

Physical Demands & Competencies

Standing, walking, talking, sitting, use of hands & hearing

Squatting/Kneeling

Ability to ascend/descend ladders, stairs, etc.

Medium work that includes lifting and/or moving objects up to 32 pounds or

more

Data Entry, telephone, reading/writing, reasoning, organizational,

communication & math skills

Safety & Product Knowledge

Good working knowledge of ProductLink, VisionLInk, DBS, and MDS

Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint

Work Environment

Noise: Moderate

Indoors and Outdoors