Demand Planner

Kimberly-Clark•Neenah, WI

1d•$87,260 - $107,780•Hybrid

About The Position

Demand Planner Job Description You were made to create Better Care for a Better World. As a person, you’re a problem-solver – a connector – someone who thrives on creating order from complexity and driving continuous improvement. You see the big picture while mastering the details, ensuring that every product, process, and partnership flows with precision and purpose. You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity, efficiency, and collaboration, always working to turn today’s challenges into tomorrow’s success stories. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU. About You In one of our Supply Chain roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in a Business Related field, a degree in Supply Chain, preferred.
5+ years of experience in Supply Chain, Finance or Customer Development.
Experience with accurate business forecasting, supply and demand, and quantitative business analysis skills.
Experience in developing customer relations and providing business analysis
Advanced analytical skills, experience extracting repository data and building reports in tools such as Power BI, Business Objects, SAP Analytics Cloud, and Excel.
Experience explaining to other business partners the insights of ad-hoc reporting to identify root cause of forecast errors.
Team player that has the ability to share knowledge with peers to elevate the data analytics capabilities of the team.
Skill in problem solving, ethical judgement and decision making, storytelling, and project/risk management.
Ability to travel up to 10% of work time.

Nice To Haves

Demand planning experience in Kinaxis strongly preferred.
Knowledge of Supply Chain, Finance, Customer Development, Shopper Research, and Marketing concepts is a plus.
Knowledge of and experience with Integrated Business Process (IBP ) is a plus.
Proficient in data access, analytical tools, and PC based applications (Microsoft Suite, SAP, TPM/A4O).
Cross-cultural, prioritization and time management, resource and team management, active listening, adaptability, and interpersonal and social perspectives.

Responsibilities

Lead development of 0–18 month SKU forecasts using data-driven analysis to meet accuracy and bias targets
Facilitate monthly Demand Review, communicating assumptions, forecast drivers, and risks/opportunities to stakeholders
Analyze forecast performance and identify root causes of error to drive continuous accuracy improvements
Contribute to Integrated Business Process Meetings, aligning cross-functional inputs (Sales, Marketing, Supply, Finance) to refine forecasts
Partner with sales and customer teams to incorporate retail plan changes and key volume drivers into forecasts
Drive continuous improvement of forecasting processes, tools, and analytics to enhance accuracy and support customer service outcomes