Demand Planner

McCain Foods; Toronto; On-site; CAD 58,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

A global food company located in Toronto is seeking a Demand Planner to create and maintain demand plans for various segments. The successful candidate will analyze data to drive supply chain improvements and collaborate with marketing and sales teams. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree and 2-5 years of relevant experience. This role supports a hybrid work model with competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Health coverage

Retirement savings benefits

Vacation and holidays

Qualifications

• 2-5 years experience in demand planning, forecasting, or supply planning.
• Experience with a CPG company is a plus.
• Ability to analyze large amounts of data, models, and results.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain a demand plan for assigned business segments.
• Drive the monthly consensus process linking with commercial partners.
• Lead continuous improvement in forecast accuracy.

Skills

Analytical skills

Detail-oriented

Organizational skills

Influencing skills

Communication skills

Proficiency in Excel

Education

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

Tools

SAP IBP

Job description

Position Title: Demand Planner

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Position Location: Toronto HQ

Grade: Grade 04

Requisition ID: 39159

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 our three locations: Oakbrook, IL; Toronto, ON; Florenceville-Bristol, NB.

What You’ll Be Doing

• 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, and deploy improvement initiatives to prevent future occurrence.
• Accountable for meeting forecast accuracy KPI targets, maintain and publish demand planning metrics, and manage improvement plans across various levels of forecast aggregation and multiple time horizons.
• Have 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.
• Acquire the skills to retrieve relevant data from various systems; ability to create own reports.
• Execute the various weekly and/or monthly processes and reports assigned in support of continuous improvement and forecast quality.

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Statistics or related discipline
• At least 2-5 years experience in demand planning, forecasting, supply planning. Experience with a CPG company a plus.
• Excellent analytical, statistical, and organizational skills. Must be detail-oriented and highly organized.
• Ability 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.

About McCain

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Leadership principles

At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.

The McCain Experience

We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.

Our purpose is grounded in building meaningful relationships. We’re big believers in the power of working together in person—it helps us stay connected, collaborate more effectively, and grow as a team. At the same time, we recognize the importance of flexibility. Most office-based roles follow a hybrid model, with the option to work remotely two days a week. There may be exceptions depending on the role and location, so we encourage you to speak with your recruiter for more details.

Compensation Package

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

Benefits

At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. Employees are eligible for 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 country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefit details available during the application process.

Equal Opportunity

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family‑owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in diverse communities. 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. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience and success and makes our business stronger. McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process please let us know, and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions. Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree that this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. You can understand how your personal information is being handled here.

Job Family: Supply Chain & Logistics

Locations: CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto | CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Florenceville-Bristol

Company: McCain Foods (Canada)