Demand Planning Manager
About The Position
We have a current opening for a Demand Planning Manager and are actively reviewing applications. The Sr. Demand Planning Manager will be responsible for managing a team, validate demand plans, understand demand drivers and drainers, proactive collaboration across Sales Forecasting, Brand Marketing, Trade Marketing, Supply Planning and Finance, support strategy of exit / go to market, lead monthly S&OP process for assigned brands. The goal of this position is to continuously improve service levels while simultaneously reducing finished goods inventory through accurate forecasting. Key to this role will be anticipating and understanding the needs of different stakeholders across the company relative to forecasting, turning assumptions into actionable plans and providing insight into demand drivers to leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Logistics, Operations Planning, Engineering or related fields
- Demonstrated success in implementing KPIs and continuous improvement initiatives
- 7-10 years’ experience with fast moving consumer goods or equivalent
- 7-10 years’ experience in Demand Planning or forecasting role
- Proficient Microsoft Office (Word, Excel)
- Demonstrated proficiency in statistics, forecasting and forecasting methods with an understanding of their financial and operational impacts.
- Experience with SAP APO & ECC or similar applications
- Experience with Forecasting tools as Blue Yonder or equivalent.
Responsibilities
- Manage a team of Demand Planners
- Develop demand forecasts for designated products of $500M in value (operational forecasts) at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizons as part of a demand planning function.
- Coordinate all demand activities involving two production facilities and three co-pack factories involving hundreds of SKUs
- Lead monthly S&OP process for assigned brands including maintaining baseline / statistical forecasts, collecting Sales, trade marketing and brand Marketing forecast drivers and highlighting changes and drivers in the plan to key stakeholders.
- Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop statistical forecast models, and evaluate forecast results.
- Track Forecast KPI’s including bias, accuracy and forecast value add. Use these KPI’s to drive improvements.
- Partner with Supply and Deployment Directors to conduct periodic reviews of results and where needed implement enhancements or corrective actions
- Coordinate cross-functional research activities to reconcile significant variances and refine the forecast model to reflect updated sales, trade marketing and marketing assumptions.
- Interact with sales, marketing, trade marketing and finance to understand demand forecast drivers.
- Utilize a collaborative consensus approach by working with sales, marketing, trade marketing and finance to obtain and ensure that current and accurate information are used for demand forecasts.
- Use and maintain the Demand Planning software as the primary forecasting system tool.
- Provide input to the Supply Planning and Deployment Planning organizations in developing inventory strategies on existing items, new products, and product phase-in/ phase outs.
- Closely coordinate and communicate customer action plans with supply planning and deployments.
Benefits
- health insurance
- retirement plans
- paid time off
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
