Demand Planner

THE ROLE

As a skilled Demand Planner, you will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and enhancing a comprehensive Demand Plan for a diverse portfolio of products and customers. Your expertise will ensure seamless alignment of this Demand Plan with both internal partners through the S&OP and Monthly Forecasting calls. By proactively identifying and effectively managing exceptions, you will closely monitor performance to continuously improve the quality and reliability of the Demand Plan. This will significantly contribute to the Company's ability to swiftly sense and respond to evolving circumstances. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support the Supply Chain team as a key stakeholder in the MRP and S&OP processes to help meet customer demand while minimizing inventory costs and maximizing service levels.
• Develop, manage, validate, and communicate demand forecasts for all sku’s and customers.
• Become a company expert on sku and retailer trends through both internal and external data and communicate customer order behaviors.
• Monitor inventory levels and work closely with Supply Planning to ensure all orders are being fulfilled and maintained at a high fill rate %
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement new products or initiatives and ensure alignment with supply chain requirements.
• Be proactive in identifying and effectively managing exceptions, improve the quality and reliability of the Demand Plan  
• Collect Information and Assumptions: Gather comprehensive information and assumptions regarding promotional activities, product launches and phase-outs, customer and distribution changes, business trends, production constraints, regional demand, and other relevant factors. These inputs are crucial in developing a reliable and accurate demand plan.
• Quantify new product launch forecasts using historical sales, planned marketing support, and key account merchandising plans.
• Communicate risks and opportunities determined by analyzing account specific trends and new product launch performance.  
• Performs ad-hoc and demand analysis across company initiatives, scenarios, and plays an integral role in annual budget building with finance.
• Generate forecast KPIs at the sku/customer/warehouse level to identify trends in our customer demand. 

QUALIFICATIONS

• A Bachelor's degree is preferred, preferably in Supply Chain, Finance, Business Administration
• A minimum of 2-3 years of professional experience in Supply Chain is required, with at least 2 years of experience at the planner level or equivalent.
• Experience working in a CPG or manufacturing environment being advantageous.
• Expert in inventory management and forecasting.
• Proficiency in advanced Excel is required
• Strong analytical and statistical skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are essential.
• Proven experience in having an influencing and collaborative approach.
• Meet with the Finance, Commercial, and Planning departments to review and understand changes in our customer demand forecast.
• Liaise between Supply Planning, Finance, Sales, and Commercialization teams.
• Experience using MRP systems a plus
• Certification in supply chain management (e.g., APICS CPIM) is a plus.

REPORTS TO: Demand Planning Manager

COMPENSATION: $75,000 – 80,000 + Bonus