Senior Demand Planner Jobs

Senior Demand Planner

This is a great opportunity for someone looking for a collaborative work environment that provides stability, growth, and upside. Lots of opportunity to carve a career path for yourself in Supply Chain with a growing Canadian company.

The Opportunity:

Champion the S&OP process including both the Demand Forecasting and Supply Planning / Production Scheduling areas of the business. Ensure inventory management is optimized, and that volume, cost, waste, and quality standards are achieved. Be a coach and mentor to teams ensuring best practices are followed to provide a safe and efficient work environment and resolve escalated issues and problems.

Key Job Duties:

• Interact with the commercial/customer facing team to obtain and ensure that current and accurate information is used for demand forecasts
• During supply constraints, work with the other demand planners to provide supply planning with the allocations by customer/items based on inputs from the sales team and customer insights
• Review forecast attainment weekly with the sales team and provide any significant update to supply planning on forecasts to adapt operations to optimal fulfillment rates and demand.
• Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, and evaluate forecast results
• Analyze and reconcile significant variances and refine the forecast model to reflect updated commercial/customer assumptions
• Manage the timing and allocation of new products skus and the phase-out of end-of-line skus
• Lead the S&OP process - including company Supply & Demand planning systems and processes
• Communicate with all key stake holders to manage product demand, availability, and optimal inventory levels
• Build and help standardize dashboards for strategic analysis and internal business review
• Develop demand forecasts – including operational short and long term forecasts
• Present the full year demand numbers and insights vs. the previous month's demand by customer during monthly S&OP meetings with senior management

Leadership:

• Set key performance standards for the planning team
• Lead by example with an approach to empower everyone in the team
• Track record of building teams

Strategy:

• Ability to get things done through coaching, training and mentoring others
• Ability to think objectively and weigh different options to dive deep where needed on relevant issue
• Operate at the highest level to support strategy development

Ideal Qualifications and Competencies:

• Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills
• Sound conceptual and strategic awareness/capabilities
• Excellent presentation and negotiation skills
• Ability to work in fast-paced, multi-tasking environment
• Attention to detail, fast learner, and quick thinker
• Lead and influence demand planning strategies to maximize customer fill rates, minimize distressed sales, and minimize inventory redistribution due to forecast error, and decrease forecast variances
• Strong communication skills: ability to communicate information clearly
• Excellent knowledge of S&OP planning and forecasting
• Bias for action and Sense of urgency
• Instil a culture of accountability
• 7 - 10 years’ proven working experience in logistics/supply chain/production planning
• Analytically savvy
• Ability to work collaboratively as a team