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Guardian Glass is looking for a Demand Planning Leader in Auburn Hills, MI!

In this position, you will partner closely with business leadership to translate market insights into a forward-looking, data-driven demand plan that enables profitable growth and operational alignment. This is an opportunity to influence strategy, challenge the status quo, and drive meaningful business outcomes through analytics and cross-functional collaboration.

As a key member of the organization, you will act as a strategic partner to leadership, translating the commercial vision into a credible demand plan aligned with Supply Chain and Operational priorities. The successful candidate will leverage data, market insights, and business acumen to turn analysis into action—supporting profitable growth while aligning teams around shared goals.

You will collaborate across commercial, supply chain, and operations teams to create alignment between demand, capacity, and execution—playing a central role in enabling data-driven decision-making and organizational success.

• Own and continuously refine the 12–18 month rolling forecast, maintaining a well-documented, assumptions-based plan that enables aligned decision‑making across the organization
• Identify, communicate, and proactively manage risks and opportunities, partnering with commercial leaders on scenario planning to reflect evolving market conditions
• Challenge demand assumptions using market trends, execution insights, and share-of-wallet analysis

• Translate business strategy into actionable demand assumptions and opportunity pipelines, promoting value-driven decisions that optimize profitability
• Support execution of new business and key account strategies while identifying and unlocking unconstrained market opportunities through data‑driven analysis

• Partner with Supply Chain and Operations to align demand with capacity, proactively identifying demand shifts and supporting prioritization and allocation decisions
• Deliver analytics to highlight gaps between plan and execution and drive corrective actions
• Lead demand planning discussions within S&OP, clearly communicating risks, trade‑offs, and recommended actions to enable agile decision‑making
• Lead, coach, and develop team members while building organizational capability and fostering a culture of accountability, respect, and performance excellence

• Experience developing and managing demand forecasts in a complex, cross‑functional environment
• Experience using data and analytics to influence business decisions and drive outcomes
• Experience leading or developing others, either directly or through project leadership
• Previous experience communicating insights and recommendations to senior stakeholders

• Experience with advanced forecasting tools or demand planning systems
• Experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment
• Experience incorporating market, customer, or pricing insights into demand planning

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

As a Koch company, Guardian Glass is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of float, value-added and fabricated glass products and solutions. We produce high-performance glass for architectural, residential, interior, transportation and technical glass applications. You’ll find our glass in homes, offices and cars and in some of the world’s most iconic projects.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how ourbusiness philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

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