Demand Planning Specialist
About The Position
The demand planning specialist is responsible for developing and maintaining accurate 0 to 24-month rolling demand forecast for assigned product segment and/or banners. Your main mandate is to improve forecast accuracy by leveraging advanced features of SAP-IBP Demand Planning, external market data, and collaboration with the Commercial team. This role acts as a strategic bridge between Commercial, Supply Chain, Finance, and IT teams to continuously enhance forecasting capabilities and planning maturity. This role also leads the adoption and optimization of advanced forecasting capabilities including statistical modeling, demand sensing, machine learning algorithms, forecast value add (FVA), and exception-based planning. The successful candidate will reduce manual forecasting activities by leveraging automation, improve forecast accuracy through advanced statistical techniques.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer science or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in demand or supply chain planning.
- Preference for hands-on experience with SAP IBP Demand module
- Proven track record leading cross-functional forecasting processes.
- Experience in consumer-packaged goods (CPG), food, dairy, or manufacturing environments preferred.
- SAP-IBP Demand planning advanced tools: Statistical forecasting, Demand sensing, Exception-based planning & alerts
- Advanced excel
- Delivering summarized data-driven insights to stakeholders
- Business acumen
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Continuous improvement mindset
- Influencing without authority
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end demand planning cycle for assigned banner and/or product family
- Drives demand reviews and consensus alignment across functions.
- Translate commercial intelligence, promotions, and NPD assumptions into robust forecast inputs.
- Analyze historical sales, seasonality, promotions, pricing impacts, and market trends.
- Identify demand risks and opportunities and communicate them to stakeholders
- Support new product launches, promotional planning, and portfolio changes.
- Establish, calibrate, and continuously optimize SAP IBP Forecasting & Demand Sensing models.
- Evaluate and optimize forecasting algorithms across product portfolios.
- Lead deployment and continuous improvement of SAP IBP Demand capabilities in collaboration with the COE and IT SAP-IBP experts
- Reduce manual touchpoints across the forecasting workflow.
- Ensure that automated forecasting routines, alerts, and exception management processes within SAP IBP are aligned with business needs
- Develop forecasting segmentation strategies based on product behavior, lifecycle, and demand variability.
- Perform forecast value add (FVA) analysis to quantify planner and commercial input effectiveness.
- Identify forecast drivers and demand patterns using advanced analytics.
- Conduct scenario planning and predictive analysis to support business decisions.
- Lead forecasting improvement initiatives and standardize best practices.
- Coach and mentor planners on SAP IBP capabilities and forecasting methodologies.
- Support the rollout of new planning tools, processes, and governance frameworks.
Benefits
- Recognition of years of service for vacation calculation
- Flexible group insurance plan including telemedicine services
- Employee assistance program
- Opportunities to invest in yourself (career development, etc.)
- Pension plan with company contributions
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
