Demand Planner

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Job Summary:

The Demand Planner is responsible for developing and implementing strategies to optimize a company's demand planning process; The incumbent works closely with sales, marketing, and production teams to forecast future demand for products and ensure that the company has sufficient inventory to meet customer needs while minimizing costs.

The Demand Planner is critical in ensuring that a company's demand planning process is optimized to meet customer needs while minimizing costs and improving efficiency. The incumbent must be skilled in data analysis and forecasting, as well as have strong communication and leadership skills to collaborate with other teams across the organization. The incumbent also needs to ensure the inventory replenishment planning is being adhered to On Time, On Cost, and On Capital.

The Demand Planner does not supervise employees. However, the incumbent needs to be adept at communicating and influencing from the 3PL’s Inventory floor up to the KA’s and Channel management level.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Conducting S& OP KA demand review, Inventory review, and mid-month sales review.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including the Key account, Brand team, BBM, PSG, and Product team to develop a consensus-ed demand plan.
• Collaborating with the project team to support new product launches and product life cycle management.
• Collaborating with the Logistics team on the VAS program to improve inventory availability for order fulfillment.
• Collaborating with China DSP on business execution, such as ensuring the implementation of the consensus-ed demand plan and providing a return to forecast to Key accounts; mitigating supply risk and coordinating with Key accounts for supply allocation.
• PO execution for Flex maroon.
• Analyzing market trends, customer demand, and sales data to conduct demand consensus reviews and make forecast adjustments to improve forecast accuracy.
• Aligning unit forecast with Business outlook (Constrained demand) and gap analysis to ensure alignment.
• Monitoring, reporting, and taking actions to improve key performance indicators, such as forecast accuracy, and demand gyration.
• Developing and implementing demand planning strategies to improve inventory E&O
• Identifying potential risks and opportunities in the demand planning process and developing contingency plans.
• Continuously evaluating and improving demand planning processes.
• All other duties assigned by Senior Manager, Supply and Demand Planning

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Analyze and interpret data to make informed decisions. This includes understanding statistical models, identifying trends, and creating reports to support decision-making.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are essential; must be able to communicate effectively with cross-functional teams, including sales, marketing, operations, and finance.
• Needs to be willing to continuously learn and improve processes to optimize demand planning accuracy and efficiency.
• Needs to be able to think ahead and anticipate potential issues or challenges that may arise in the supply chain.
• Adapt to changing circumstances and come up with creative solutions to problems as they arise.
• Working off-hours is required.

​​​​​​​Education and Experience:

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in a related field, such as logistics, business management or supply chain management. A Master's degree in a related field may also be preferred.
• Requires at least 3 years of experience in demand planning or a similar field. Experience with statistical forecasting and demand management software is highly desirable.
• Experience in Oracle ERP systems is preferred.

Travel:

This position requires up to 10% US and international travel.

About Chervon North America, Inc.

Chervon North America operates in a casual and fun environment. We offer a very competitive benefits package including health, dental, vision, short/long-term disability, life insurance, 401(k) and a competitive time off program.

Chervon North America is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer committed to hiring a diverse workforce. We consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, age, religion, color, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, gender, pregnancy, military status, order of protection status, transgender status, genetic information, or any other category protected by law.