Demand Planner

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Waltham, MA · Manufacturing : Imaging Production : Imaging - Demand Planning

Demand Planner role at Anduril, a defense technology company. This role focuses on developing and maintaining demand profiles, translating forecasts into build planning inputs, and collaborating with various teams (Growth, Business Development, Supply Chain, Production, Engineering, Operations, Finance) to manage production capacity and supply requirements. Requires experience in demand planning, forecasting, or supply chain, familiarity with ERP/CRM systems, and strong technical and analytical abilities. The company mentions AI-powered operating systems and advanced technology but this specific role is not directly building or researching AI/ML models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborate with Growth and Business Development teams to clarify and pull unit sales data from Salesforce and reconcile sales pipeline data with demand plans.
  2. Collaborate with Supply Chain Lead and Production lead to account for build constraints.
  3. Develop and maintain an 18-month rolling demand profile that reflects pipeline opportunities and internal demand for planning production capacity, supply requirements, customer requirements, constraints, and production rate ramps. Regular adjustments expected.
  4. Translate demand forecasts into build planning inputs used by Supply Chain and Production to plan materials and capacity.
  5. Collaborate with Supply Chain, Production, and Engineering to analyze demand against capacity and surface trade-offs and associated implications for Leadership to support decision making.

Skills

Required

  • demand planning
  • forecasting
  • supply chain
  • Salesforce
  • ERP systems (NetSuite/Oracle)
  • technical documentation
  • hardware manufacturing processes
  • proactive
  • take substantial responsibility
  • speed and accuracy
  • organized
  • detail oriented
  • travel up to 10%
  • obtain a U.S. TS clearance

Nice to have

  • Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence)
  • Mercury
  • SQL databases
  • custom queries for production and inventory metrics
  • supply chain planning systems (Blue Yonder)
  • demand planning best practices
  • inventory management best practices
  • S&OP best practices
  • data analysis and reporting tools (Tableau, Power BI, Qlikview)
  • Lean Manufacturing
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Six Sigma principles
  • big data evaluation techniques

What the JD emphasized

  • Minimum of 3 years of experience in demand planning, forecasting, or supply chain within a fast-paced manufacturing environment dealing with complex assemblies.
  • Ownership of a demand value chain, coordinating between multiple parties to ensure on-time deliveries and adherence to quality standards.
  • obtain a U.S. TS clearance.