Demand Manager, Integrated Business Planning (IBP)

Demand Manager, Integrated Business Planning (IBP)

Published 06.23.2026

Company : Safran Cabin Job field : Supply chain Location : Carson , California , United States Contract type : Permanent Contract duration : Full-time Required degree : Master Degree Required experience : More than 5 years Professional status : Professional, Engineer & Manager Salary range : $94,230-$148,070 Annually

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Published 06.23.2026

Job Description

Here, we craft excellence together. Your mission? Making the journey the most enjoyable part of the trip.

The Demand Manager is responsible for establishing, structuring, and leading the Demand Management function for the full Water & Waste business, including Linefit (OEM), Retrofit, Spares, and Repair / MRO activities.

This position owns the end to end demand process, ensuring the consolidation, validation, and governance of a single, reliable, unconstrained Demand Plan over a 3-5 year horizon, used as the primary input for Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), Supply Chain, Industrial Planning, and Finance (Budget, MTP, RoFo).

The role operates in a highly cross functional environment, acting as a business integrator between Sales, Programs, Customer Support & Services, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Finance to enable aligned, data driven decision making.

Summary of Duties:

Demand Ownership & Business Scope

• Consolidate and manage all demand streams for the business:

o OEM / Linefit

o Retrofit

o Spares

o Repairs / Services (MRO)

o Internal demand (development, qualification, prototypes, tests)

• Build and maintain a single Demand Plan combining firm orders and forecasts.
• Ensure coherence between demand, revenue outlook, industrial assumptions, and financial targets.

Process Creation & Governance

• Design, deploy, and continuously improve the Demand Management process, aligned with Safran S&OP standards.
• Define demand rules, models, assumptions, and planning horizons.
• Establish formal Demand Review governance, cadence, and deliverables.

Forecasting & Scenario Management

• Develop forecasting models using quantitative and qualitative inputs.
• Build and maintain Low / Medium / High demand scenarios.
• Analyze forecast accuracy, stability, and bias; implement corrective actions.
• Proactively challenge commercial and program assumptions to protect business robustness.

S&OP & Cross Functional Integration

• Prepare and facilitate monthly Demand Reviews.
• Ensure formal validation and release of the Demand Plan as S&OP input.
• Support Supply Reviews and Executive S&OP discussions with clear analytics and scenarios.

Data Integrity & Systems

• Ensure demand data consistency across ERP, CRM, and planning tools.
• Define and maintain demand master data and parameters.
• Ensure alignment between Demand Plan, ERP loading logic, and downstream material planning (including spares and MRO specifics).

Performance & Continuous Improvement

• Define, monitor, and improve Demand KPIs:

o Demand stability

o Forecast accuracy

o Firm demand completeness

• Conduct maturity assessments of demand practices.
• Act as primary interface between Sales, Programs, Customer Support & Services, Supply Chain, Engineering, and Finance.

Job Requirements

Experience:

• 5-10 years of experience in Demand Management, S&OP, IBP, Supply Chain, or Business Planning
• Experience in industrial and aftermarket environments, including Spares and/or MRO
• Proven experience designing or deploying structured planning processes
• Experience operating in a cross functional, matrix organization
• Aerospace or complex industrial environment experience preferred

Preferred Qualifications (Not Required)

• Experience with ERP driven demand planning (e.g., M3 or equivalent)
• Exposure to regulated or customer critical environments
• International business experience
• Advanced Excel proficiency; BI tools (e.g., Power BI) a plus

Knowledge and skills:

• Must have solid knowledge of commercial, regional, and executive aircraft market segments, including customer familiarity and personal contacts.
• Must possess effective networking and communication skills (both internal and external).
• Must have product knowledge or the ability to learn and understand technical requirements of Company products.
• Must have the knowledge or the ability to learn and understand customer technical and commercial requirements. Must have effective leadership and team building skills.
• Must have excellent customer service skills.
• Must have above average skills in MSWord, Excel, Power Point and a working knowledge of MRP systems.
• Must have excellent personal skills to develop and maintain personal relationships with customers.
• Must have the ability to close business transactions.

Communication Skills:

• Must have the ability to generate clear, high level, effective, written business communication and the ability to read and understand written communication.
• Speech and hearing abilities that allow individual to communicate clearly and distinctly in English and the ability to communicate with International customers that communicate in English as a second language.

Reasoning Ability:

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exist.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.

But what else? (advantages, specific features, etc.)

Safran Cabin is #1 worldwide for business and regional aircraft interiors.

Here, you will build your skills and grow with a community of experts to enrich yourself every day.

Here, collaboration is embodied within the diversity of our teams all around the world.

Here, were cutting our emissions, not your ambitions.

Together, lets shape the sustainable future of aeronautics. Learn more about Safran Cabin!

Why join us?

At Safran Cabin, we provide equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, age, national origin, ancestry, disability/medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic characteristics or information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws.

• Your Benefits: Our suite of comprehensive benefits include health care (medical, dental and vision), life insurance, 401(k) savings plans with company match, paid time off, and employee discounts & rewards for consumer products/services and more!

Company Information

Safran is an international high-technology group, operating in the aviation (propulsion, equipment and interiors), defense and space markets. Its core purpose is to contribute to a safer, more sustainable world, where air transport is more environmentally friendly, comfortable and accessible. Safran has a global presence, with 100,000 employees and sales of 27.3 billion euros in 2024, and holds, alone or in partnership, world or regional leadership positions in its core markets.

Safran is in the 2nd place in the aerospace and defense industry in TIME magazines "Worlds best companies 2024" ranking.

Safran Cabin designs, certifies, manufactures and supports innovative aircraft cabin interiors, equipment and systems, providing airlines and OEM Customers with distinctive aircraft branding, and their passengers with a safe, comfortable and enjoyable flying experience.

100,000

employees worldwide

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Number of countries where Safran is located

35

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