About this role
The Senior Director, Demand Forecasting & Revenue Attainment will lead the modernization and day-to-day execution of demand forecasting and revenue attainment across the Power Solutions Group. This hands-on enterprise leadership role will establish a trusted, forward-looking view of demand and convert customer, channel, market, and transactional signals into clear revenue, margin, capacity, and inventory decisions.
Operating at the intersection of business units, Sales, Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Distribution, this leader will create one common planning language, strengthen forecast accountability, and surface risk and upside early. The ideal candidate has successfully built or transformed a demand planning organization in semiconductors or another complex, long-cycle B2B technology environment and can bring disciplined metrics, governance, systems thinking, and an effective operating cadence.
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, Analytics, Statistics, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
- 12+ years of progressive experience in demand planning, forecasting, revenue operations, business planning, supply chain, or S&OP/IBP, including significant leadership responsibility.
- Demonstrated success building, scaling, or materially improving a demand forecasting function, its metrics, and its operating cadence.
- Experience in the semiconductor industry and with direct, distribution, and channel business models.
- Deep fluency in translating backlog, bookings, POS/sell-through, channel inventory, customer signals, price, and market data into forward-looking forecasts and business actions.
- Strong understanding of forecast accuracy, bias, statistical methods, scenario planning, channel inventory management, and revenue attainment.
- Advanced analytical capability in Excel, Power BI or comparable visualization tools, data modeling, and forecast performance analysis.
- Experience with ERP and enterprise planning platforms, such as Blue Yonder, Kinaxis, SAP IBP, o9, Oracle, or similar systems.
- Proven ability to influence GMs, Sales, Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and P&L leaders without relying on direct authority.
- Executive-level communication skills, including the ability to distill complex analysis into a clear recommendation, decision, and action plan.
- People leadership experience, including organizational design, hiring, coaching, and development of analytical teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA or advanced degree in a relevant discipline.
- APICS/ASCM CPIM or CSCP, IBF Certified Professional Forecaster, or comparable certification.
- Experience applying statistical or AI/ML-assisted forecasting, particularly to long-tail, distributor-driven, or intermittent demand.
- Experience operating across multiple business units or divisions with shared customers, products, capacity, and supply constraints.
- Experience leading or materially contributing to AOP, long-range planning, and S&OP/IBP in a global organization.
- Demonstrated change leadership, including adoption of common processes, data standards, tools, and governance across decentralized teams.