Senior Demand Planner

Bacardi • Coral Gables, FL

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About The Position

The Senior Demand Planner manages demand planning for assigned brands, develops demand plans and monthly consensus forecasts through the S&OP process, and prioritizes markets for portfolio supply plans. The role collaborates with commercial, marketing, customer service, and other internal stakeholders to gather demand inputs, evaluate risks and opportunities, support product allocation decisions, and align forecast decisions. It also monitors forecast performance and demand-planning KPIs, maintains statistical forecast data, and identifies improvements to forecasting techniques, systems, and business processes.

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to use analytical and statistical models to analyze demand and prepare forecasts in SAP or another advanced planning tool.
• Undergraduate degree in Logistics, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or a related field.
• Three to five years of forecasting or demand-planning experience in the Food and Consumer Packaged Goods industry.
• Proven time-management and multitasking capabilities.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills for working across global and cross-functional teams, including communicating effectively with Manager- and Director-level stakeholders.
• Proven ability to work in a cross-functional, team-oriented environment to achieve goals.
• Creative problem-solving skills, including developing innovative solutions to complex problems.
• Self-awareness and reflection, including understanding personal strengths, weaknesses, and impact on others.
• Ability to understand and relate to people and navigate difficult situations to support collective performance.
• Ability to consistently deliver results in new situations and inspire confidence in teams.
• Critical and strategic thinking, creativity, and the ability to remain focused on execution.
• Curiosity, willingness to experiment, adaptability to change, and a growth and learning mindset.

Nice To Haves

• MBA.

Responsibilities

• Manage the demand planning process for assigned brands and prioritize markets for the portfolio supply plan.
• Develop demand plans and drive monthly S&OP consensus for volume and revenue projections with key internal stakeholders.
• Create and propose product allocations for brands where allocation is warranted.
• Collect past and future demand drivers and work with stakeholders to assess their impact on demand.
• Gather market intelligence from commercial teams on specific customer-level demand events.
• Work with customer service to investigate short-term demand trends, identify impacts, highlight deviations from plans, and escalate issues into S&OE.
• Identify risks and opportunities related to demand uncertainty and help develop alternative business responses with Marketing and Commercial teams.
• Maintain, analyze, and review statistical forecast data for assigned brands.
• Analyze forecast performance, identify root causes of variations, and improve forecasting techniques and approaches.
• Monitor demand-planning KPIs and performance metrics and publish a monthly dashboard for assigned-brand sell-in and sell-out performance.
• Gather input from business users and leadership to improve system functionality, demand-planning processes, and forecast accuracy.
• Influence forecast decisions through analysis and collaboration, identify outliers, and facilitate alignment across commercial teams.

Benefits

• Competitive pay package.
• Competitive holiday and paid time off, plus additional days such as a volunteer day.
• Retirement or pension plan.
• Medical, critical illness, and life insurance.
• Employee assistance programs.
• Family-friendly and inclusive leave policies.
• Incentive programs linked to company and individual performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior