Job Description Do you get excited about connecting the dots between customer opportunities, market signals, and real-world exection to shape the future of a business? Do you strive to turn ambiguity into clarity—transforming pipeline insights, data, and assumptions into a credible plan that leaders can act on with confidence? Are you looking for a role that puts you at the center of strategic decision making—co-owning an integrated demand signal that bridges sales, operations, and finance to drive aligment and impact across the enterprise?
As CMS refreshes its Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning framework, we are looking for a CMS Demand Planning Lead to partner with the strategy, business winning, and program management teams to integrate customer, market, and pipeline insights into a single, risk-adjusted demand signal that drives alignment and provided the foundation for the mid-term planning activities that enable predictable business performance. As a co-leader of the SIOP framework, this role partners with the Supply Planning Lead to ensure the organization is making deliberate, optimized trade-offs across customer service, cost, and schedule targets.
This role leads the Portfolio Planning review and co-leads the Demand Planning review for CMS SIOP as critical desion-making forums—assessing scenarios, quantifying tradeoffs, and driving alignment on a single, enterprise-supported plan. The SIOP Demand Planning Lead operates as a decision architect, ensuring leadership is equipped to make timely, data-driven decisions that balance short-term execution with long-term capability and financial objectives.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES & INTERFACES
- Collaborate with strategy, business winning, and program management functions to consolidate sources of demand across the CMS portfolio into an aligned, forward-looking demand signal, including firm orders as well as various scenarios and possibilities for forecasted demand.
- Develop and strengthen the process to translate the demand plan into detailed supply requirement signals. Communicate changes in the supply requirement signals as a co-lead of the monthly demand review forum.
- Analyze and communicate gaps between current demand outlook and business objectives, partnering with the strategy and capture teams to evaluate necessary adjusements to market and customer strategies to improve pipeline conversion and award.
- Co-create new methods to understand and assess forecasted health of our portfolio, understanding and challenging win probability and timing, and translating opportunities and risks into demand scenarios with clear signposts and trigger points.
- Drive scenario planning techniques within the business strategy and capture functions to ensure the bsuiness has a credible, risk-adjusted view of future demand—defining pipeline opportunities and risks and translating these into defined scenarios that allow assessment of operational risks to exeuction and financial impacts.
EXPECTATIONS
The top candidate for this role brings an enterprise mindset, with a strong understanding of how opportuntiy pipeline, demand, supply, and financial outcomes are interconnected across the business. They are comfortable operating in ambuguity and demonstrate sound judgment in translating incomplete, forward-looking infomration into clear, actionable insights. With strong analytical and storytelling skills, they are able to synthesize complex data into concise, compelling narratives that clearly frame the situation, describe informed options, and guide operaitonal teams and senior leadership to clear decisions while weighing the trade-offs. This role will have significant influence, but must be able to drive alignment and decisions without direct authority. The business will rely on their ability to collaborate to drive alignment, challenge planning assumptoins constructively, and clearly articulate complex trade-offs and recommendations. Additionally, they exhibit a systems-oriented approach, building scalable processes, tools, and ways of working that improve visibiltiy, consistency, and overall planning effectiveness.
Required Education, Experience, & Skills - 7+ years of experience within capture, strategy, or program management oriented roles of increasing responsibilty.
- Experience with planning processes focused on optimizing the long-term strategy for a function, program, or business unit.
- Experience leading cross-functional planning forums or reviews and driving alignment at multiple organizational teams or levels.
- Strong analytical skills with advanced excel capabilities; ability to structure and interpret forward-looking data.
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business or a related field.
Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills - 10+ years of experience within capture, strategy, or program management oriented roles of increasing responsibilty.
- Experience supporting Integrated Businness Planning or Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning processes.
- Strong understanding of demand planning best practices for a made-to-order manufacturer of long-lead, complex systems, particulary beneficial if within the Defense acquisition environment.
- Experience with demand planning tools and integration with Oracle as the primary supply planning system.
- Relevant certifications such as APICS CPIM or CSCP, IBF CPF, PMP, APMP, or advanced analytics, finance, or sales/capture credentials.
- Master's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business or a related field.
Pay InformationFull-Time Salary Range: $134640 - $228888
Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.
Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.
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