Senior Global Demand Planner

General Motors

Senior Global Demand Planner at GM leading global computer demand planning and budget oversight. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure adequate computing resources are deployed.

Posted 5/17/2026full-timeWarren • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead global computer demand planning across all regions and countries to ensure computing supply aligns with business demand and country-level budgets.
Manage and track the global computing budget, including annual forecasting, spend monitoring, prioritization, and financial alignment with business and finance stakeholders.
Oversee planning and execution of global computer refresh initiatives to maintain a healthy and supportable computing landscape.
Ensure usable computers are actively managed for redeployment, including reclaiming unused or inactive assets and reducing unnecessary new purchases.
Partner with regional and country leads to maintain adequate inventory for new hires, break/fix requests, refresh activity, and employee change requests.
Monitor global inventory health, utilization, lifecycle status, and deployment readiness using asset management data and reporting tools.
Develop and enhance dashboards and analytics that provide real-time visibility into inventory, usage, orders, refresh status, and model usability.
Use telemetry and asset data to identify underutilized devices, refresh candidates, and opportunities for cost avoidance or targeted upgrades.
Drive process improvements that simplify ordering and approval workflows, reduce cycle time, improve on-time delivery, and eliminate escalations.
Evaluate higher-end computer requests and ensure proposed solutions are appropriate, justified, and cost-effective.
Standardize asset governance practices, naming conventions, and model rationalization to improve data quality, reporting accuracy, and operational efficiency.
Collaborate across global operations, finance, deployment, and asset management teams to support enterprise-wide compute planning and execution.
Provide proactive leadership and executive-level insights on compute demand, budget performance, refresh progress, and optimization opportunities.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business, Supply Chain, Finance, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Significant experience in global demand planning, IT asset management, infrastructure operations, or related technology management roles.
Experience managing budgets, forecasts, and spend tracking in a large-scale enterprise environment.
Experience leading cross-functional initiatives across regions, countries, and multiple stakeholder groups.
Strong analytical skills with experience using data to drive operational and financial decisions.
Experience with inventory lifecycle management, refresh planning, and enterprise hardware deployment.
Experience creating or using dashboards and reporting tools to monitor operational performance and asset health.
Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical, operational, and finance teams.
Demonstrated ability to identify cost-saving opportunities, improve processes, and drive operational accountability.

Benefits

Comp & perks

This job is may be eligible for relocation benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

global demand planningIT asset managementbudget managementforecastingspend trackinginventory lifecycle managementrefresh planningenterprise hardware deploymentdata analysisdashboard creation

Soft Skills

analytical skillscommunication skillscollaboration skillsleadershipprocess improvementoperational accountabilitycross-functional leadershipstakeholder managementproblem-solvingstrategic thinking