Demand Planning Manager

Would you like to be part of a focused, dedicated team? Do you want to work and grow with other motivated, ambitious people?

Wagner Equipment Co. offers challenging career opportunities, extensive training and employee development along with an opportunity to grow your career and thrive under Wagner’s 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 company’s 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 exceed 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 spec’ing 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

Travel Requirements:

• 1-25%

Other Duties:

Job Offers are contingent upon all required pre-employment screenings which may include but are not limited to background checks, drug/alcohol testing, fit for duty testing, and any other job-related tests/screenings.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Requirements are representative of minimum levels of knowledge, skills and/or abilities. To perform this job successfully, the employee must possess the abilities or aptitudes to perform each duty proficiently.  

Wagner Equipment Co. is an EEO/AA/Veterans/Disabled employer.