Associate Demand Planner

Company Description

Foster Farms has been serving families since 1939. Since the founding days, Foster Farms has always been committed to providing consumers with the highest-quality, best-tasting poultry products available. Our commitment to excellence, honesty, quality, service, and our valued team members will shine through in everything we do.

Foster Farms is always looking for talented individuals to join the Foster Farms team. We offer the experience of a large organization but operate like a family business. More than half of our job openings are filled by internal promotion, and we encourage team members to gain a variety of experiences across different functional groups.

Job Description

Pay Range $67,000 to $81,300 per year.

The Associate Demand Planner will support all processes relating generation, assessment of the Demand Forecast that drives our supply chain process and collaboration with cross functional partners to deliver the best forecast accuracy and to grow our business.

As a key team member within the Fresh Chicken Retail team, the Demand Planner will need to operate and embrace the team’s principles of:

• Improve the operational efficiency to grow our business
• Continue improve the most accurate forecast, a consensus plan agreed upon single source of truth to which all are accountable enabled through cross functional team input, technology and business insights
• Enable execution of monthly demand planning process for the deliverables
• Support monthly Sales and Operations Planning(S&OP) process to effectively meet the customer expectations and satisfactions.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Support and provide feedback for development of the demand forecast process based on a pre-defined framework. Apply promotional and lifecycle planning such as phase-in/phase-out and new launches to create the operations forecast.
• Evaluate the results of the forecast at customer and material level against orders and delivery. Understand the variances and make the necessary adjustment to reflect the most appropriate demand forecast results
• Proactive forecast quality assessment using trend analysis, forecast vs actual results and data input of volume by utilizing customer promotional calendars, history and market intelligence
• Assist with the S&OP execution process that drives the consensus forecast with key stakeholders.
• Support all related integrated planning requirements and or other assigned projects
• Strong attention to detail and business acumen.
• Strong self-motivation to improve capabilities of self and others through various means of learning methods
• Able to navigate through complex business processes with understanding of upstream and downstream implications
• Team player. Proven cross functional team collaboration at all levels

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred, preferably in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management or Business Administration.
• 1+ years' experience in area of Supply Chain Management or Operations. Strong forecast, supply planning experience preferred.
• Project management experience preferred
• Experience SAP APO/IBP or other key MRP systems preferred
• MS Office

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Foster Farms is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minorities, Females, Veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Foster Farms participates in E-Verify during the hire process at all locations for all new TEAM Members.