Demand Planning Lead - Repair And Maintenance

About the role

The Demand Planning Lead will own the development, approval and quality of SKU and asset‑level forecasts for a range of repair and maintenance services, including Managed Pressure Drilling, Drilling Services, Tubular Running Services, Wireline Services, Intervention Services and Drilling Tools. Reporting to the Global Planning Manager, the role partners with GeoZones, Operations and Finance teams to deliver forecasts that reflect the best available business insights.

Key responsibilities

• Track and analyse forecast variance and bias, continuously updating forecasts to improve accuracy.
• Develop new product forecasts in collaboration with cross‑functional teams, incorporating demand scenarios, ramp profiles and service consumption assumptions.
• Identify best practices and continuous‑improvement opportunities to advance demand‑planning maturity and global consistency.
• Balance supply and demand across product lines while monitoring repair capacity, asset availability and material readiness.
• Own demand and supply planning processes for assigned product lines, managing KPIs such as forecast accuracy, fill rate, inventory turns and asset readiness.
• Lead governance of Make‑to‑Stock (MTS) and Make‑to‑Order (MTO) strategies, including classification logic and stocking levels.
• Integrate asset‑based demand planning methodologies, including repair demand and utilization‑driven demand, into forecasting processes.
• Develop and maintain Service BOMs and consumption models to improve demand signal quality and working‑capital efficiency.
• Drive inventory redeployment, network optimisation and DC/BP balancing initiatives.
• Partner with manufacturing and repair facilities to improve on‑time delivery, lead time and material readiness, ensuring alignment beyond the 90‑day horizon.

Required profile

Required skills