Demand Planning SME

Job Description:

Demand Planning SME

Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a wide variety of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Demand Planning SME you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Playing a key role in creating an unbiased, accurate demand plan that is critical for planning material flow throughout the supply chain
• Applying market intelligence and making sound judgements to the demand plan. Market intelligence may come from sales, marketing, key accounts, and other sources.
• Able to execute portfolio analyses and draw insightful recommendations and actions utilizing fundamental Demand Planning frameworks and tools
• Prepare and Lead consensus/demand review with different levels in the organization.
• Leveraging forecast performance metric tools to measure accuracy, assess the quality and frequency of overrides, assess forecast bias, and identify and address the largest sources of forecast error. Identify Root cause analyses and define improving actions.
• Maximizing the effectiveness of the statistical forecast by adjusting/ cleansing historical demand, selecting “best-fit” statistical profiles and optimizing statistical parameters, determining appropriate levels of aggregation for calculating the statistical forecast.
• Forecast and manage portfolios at multiple lags
• Forecast and manage portfolios at multiple levels along value chain (e.g forecast finished good vs forecast semi-finished goods)
• Be agile and adapting varies forecasting strategies while understanding real constrains along supply chain value chain.
• Drive improvement and engagement of the SOP process with the Business (Sales, Marketing and Finance), reconcile demand plan with commercial targets through intertwined structures.
• Portfolio complexity: 10K+ SKUs

Your Skills and Expertise

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start)
• Five (5) years of experience working in supply chain operations in a private, public, government or military environment
• Three (3) years of Demand Planning experience in a highly complex, pull-based supply chain environment in a private, public, government or military environment
• One (1) year of combined experience in SAP and at least one APS system (e.g., Kinaxis, o9, Blue Yonder, IBP).

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Strong ownership and accountability
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and drive decisions across stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong understanding of statistical forecasting (parameters, modeling, significant level, etc.) able to work with statisticians to improve modeling and drive statistical performance.
• Strong understanding of S&OP
• Able to influence and drive decision making across functions and process maturity improvements.
• Need to be comfortable challenging and actioning against Status Quo
• Need to comfortable working under multiple systems environment.
• Able to meet timelines with ad-hoc requests
• Analytical skills, technical aptitude and knowledge of analytical tools (Excel, PBI, Minitab, etc.)
• Strong leadership, communication, interpersonal, and self-motivational skills
• Experience working on cross-functional and international teams
• Strong Financial and Business acumen

Work location: US - Local to a 3M office  

Travel: May include up to 10% domestic

Relocation Assistance: Not authorized

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Supporting Your Well-being

3M offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, 3M regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope.

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Applicable to US Applicants Only:The expected compensation range for this position is $164,612 - $201,193, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible. This range represents a good faith estimate for this position. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s relevant knowledge, training, skills, work location, and/or experience. In addition, this position may be eligible for a range of benefits (e.g., Medical, Dental & Vision, Health Savings Accounts, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Disability Benefits, Life Insurance, Voluntary Benefits, Paid Absences and Retirement Benefits, etc.). Additional information is available at: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/careers-us/working-at-3m/benefits/.

Good Faith Posting Date Range 04/29/2026 To 05/29/2026 Or until filled

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