Demand Planner

Milwaukee Tool Australia & New Zealand; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

LinkedIn Learning & professional dev

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Assistance Program

Generous product discounts

Laptop provided

Novated leasing options

Social events

Job summary

Milwaukee Tool Australia & New Zealand is seeking a skilled Demand Planner ANZ to build a fit-for-purpose demand plan across the portfolio. You will partner with cross-functional teams to understand gaps, risks, and opportunities and help optimize stock and forecasting accuracy.

The role reports to the Demand Planning Lead and is based in Melbourne in a hybrid setup, with an emphasis on delivering continuous improvement in demand planning and supply chain performance.

Qualifications

• Business degree or equivalent required.
• Strong analytical skills and well organized.
• Critical thinker with initiative.
• Experience collaborating with external and internal stakeholders.
• Demonstrated delivery of CI to improve demand outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Manage demand inputs from different sources.
• Oversee system health for statistical forecast generation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather quantitative and qualitative data.
• Balance stock by monitoring dealer catalogues, new stores estimates and new partners.
• Own demand sensing and control processes, keeping information current in systems.
• Provide lifecycle input for new products, transitions, and deletions.

Skills

Analytical skills

Critical thinking

Project management

Stakeholder collaboration

Change readiness

Education

Business Degree or similar

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

Excel

BI tools

Job description

Who we are:

Milwaukee Tools is an industry leader in the manufacturing of cordless & electric power tools, accessories, and hand tools. We pride ourselves on an unrelenting strategic focus on powerful brands, innovative products and exceptional people. Our culture is centred around improving the lives of our users, something that not only drives our product development but underpins everything we do. We are committed to ensuring our people have a great experience at Milwaukee, so in addition to an exciting and challenging role we also provide a range of great employee benefits including:

• Lifestyle: Hybrid working model to support flexibility.
• Personal Development: Access to LinkedIn Learning and professional development programs.
• Health & Wellbeing: Paid Parental Leave and Employee Assistance Program.
• Discounts & Perks: Generous discounts on company products, laptop provided, novated leasing options.
• Social: Recognition programs and social events to celebrate our team's achievements

About The Opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for a Demand Planner, ANZ to support our Milwaukee customer and business plans. The main focus of this role is to build a fit for purpose demand plan that ensures gaps, risk and opportunities across the demand planning portfolio are understood and managed across the stakeholder base.

Reporting directly to the Demand Planning Lead you will be based at our Notting Hill office in a hybrid-based role.

Your day to day will include:

• Manage demand inputs from different sources.
• Manage system health for statistical forecast generation.
• Account intelligence via collaboration with cross functional team (quantitative and qualitative data).
• Control demand inputs such as dealer catalogues, new stores estimates, new business partners and monitor any demand changes to balance the stock across the different plants.
• Own the demand sensing and controlling process to ensure latest information is accurate and update into our systems.
• Provide accurate product lifecycle input regarding new products, transitions and deletions.
• Question the assumptions and rationale behind the forecast to have a solid understanding of the increase or decrease.
• Contribute to business growth and strategy by identifying areas of improvement and recommending process and forecasting solutions.
• Manage the Risks and Opportunities to the plan - escalating any relevant risks.
• Coordinate the Handover process between S&OP and S&OE.
• Facilitate the portfolio management process, providing key outputs and insights for decision making.
• Generate KPI reports as requested in regard to purchasing and inventory, feeding into the S&OP process.
• Deliver continuous improvement initiatives to improve the demand and overall supply chain process seeking the company's optimisation of resources.

About You

You will have a proven track record in a similar Demand Planning role within a fast-paced supply chain environment with a flexible and adaptable approach to change. You are ready for a new challenge and have the following qualifications, skills and attributes.

• Business Degree or similar.
• Strong analytical skills and well organised.
• Critical thinker who shows initiative.
• Experience in External and Internal collaboration and good influencing skills.
• Demonstrated delivery of CI to improve demand outcomes.
• Strong project management skills and ability to engage multiple stakeholder groups.
• Experience using SAP S/4 HANA preferred.
• Advanced Excel is important, and knowledge of BI tools will be highly regarded.