Demand Planner

McCain Foods; Toronto; On-site; CAD 58,800 - 78,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug)

Retirement savings benefits

Leave support including medical and family

Well-being programs

Job summary

McCain Foods in Toronto is looking for a Demand Planner to create and maintain demand plans across various segments. The position involves collaboration with marketing, sales, and finance to drive supply chain efficiency.

Qualified candidates will have a Bachelor's Degree in a related field and experience in demand forecasting or supply planning. The job offers a competitive salary range of $58,800 - $78,500 CAD annually, plus benefits.

Qualifications

• At least 2-5 years of experience in demand planning, forecasting, or supply planning.
• Experience with a CPG company is a plus.
• Must be detail-oriented and able to analyze large data sets.

Responsibilities

• Generate and maintain a demand plan for assigned business segments.
• Update demand plans based on marketing and commercial inputs.
• Lead continuous improvement projects in forecast accuracy.

Skills

Analytical skills

Statistical skills

Organizational skills

High proficiency in Excel

Leadership skills

Effective communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, or related discipline

Tools

SAP IBP

Excel

Job description

Position Title: Demand Planner

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Requisition ID: 43161

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.

About the Role

The Demand Planner is responsible for creating and maintaining a demand plan for assigned business segments and running all processes associated with the creation of an accurate demand signal to drive the supply chain.

The Demand Planner is responsible for incorporating key business intelligence into the demand signal, including insights and inputs from marketing, sales, and finance along with data intelligence reports.

The Demand Planner is the key integration point into the marketing and commercial organization. This position leads the dialogue each month for their respective customers and products with key counterparts in Marketing and Sales.

This role can be based in any of the three corporate offices: Toronto, Florenceville, Oakbrook.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Generate a demand plan at multiple levels of aggregation and for multiple time horizons.
• Drive the monthly consensus process for assigned business segments linking with commercial partners to evaluate and align on monthly volumes by SKU/category for the next 3 months and 12 months.
• Update the demand plan to be reflective of marketing and commercial assumptions and inputs.
• Lead continuous improvement in forecast accuracy. Identify process and systems gaps. Identify leading causes of forecast error with the corresponding deployment of improvement initiatives to prevent future occurrence.
• Accountable for meeting forecast accuracy KPI targets. Maintain and publish demand planning metrics – manage and drive improvement plans across various levels of forecast aggregation and multiple time horizons.
• Has a good understanding of related supply chain processes and the impact demand planning has on them.
• Manage the communication flow of changes to forecast and disseminate information to all stakeholders accordingly.
• Use and maintain SAP IBP as primary forecasting system.
• Create and accurately maintain master data designated fields for assigned portfolio.
• Manage statistical forecast exceptions by utilizing alerts, reports, and other analyses to identify and correct potential outliers.
• Prepare for and facilitate demand consensus planning activities including generating and publishing reports, coordinating and leading cross-functional meetings, using a collaborative approach to develop and improve the consensus forecast.
• Review, scrub and analyze the forecast through scrutiny of variances, historical sales trends including rolling averages, year over year data, research of demand drivers, and other customer and market related changes.
• Accountable for acquiring the skills to retrieve relevant data from various systems; ability to create own reports.
• Accountable to generate and/or execute the various weekly and/or monthly processes and reports assigned in support of continuous improvement and forecast quality.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Statistics or related discipline.
• At least 2-5 years of experience in Demand planning, forecasting, supply planning. Experience with a CPG company is a plus.
• Excellent analytical, statistical, and organizational skills. Must be detail-oriented and highly organized.
• Able to think through and analyze large amounts of data, models and results.
• High proficiency in tools used for data analysis such as Excel.
• Ability to lead and influence others in reaching a consensus forecast.
• Experience with facilitation of Forecast Consensus discussions.
• Effective communication skills (both oral and written) with the ability to interact with multiple departments and all levels of the organization.

Compensation Package

$58,800.00 - $78,500.00 CAD annually + Bonus Eligibility.

The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs. This posting is for an existing vacancy.

Benefits

At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well­being at the heart of what we do, every day. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Well‑being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with applicable law and can vary by work level, location, and nature of the role. Additional benefit detail available during the application process.

Your well‑being matters to us, and we’re here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work and at home.

Equal Opportunity Employer

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family‑owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Accessible Employer

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know, and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.

Privacy

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Job Family: Supply Chain & Logistics

Location(s): CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Company: McCain Foods (Canada)