Demand Planner - Writing

Yankee Candle; Brampton; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consumer products company seeks a Sr Demand Planner in Brampton, Canada. The role entails ensuring the demand planning process delivers reliable forecasts, collaborating with various units, and improving process metrics. Candidates should have a college degree in Supply Chain Management and at least 3 years of relevant experience. Strong statistical modeling and data analysis skills are essential. Competitive compensation is provided.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years' experience in supply chain roles.
• Experience with statistical modeling and demand systems.
• Proficiency in data acquisition and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain forecasting models.
• Execute the demand planning process.
• Manage input for replenishment and promotions.

Skills

Statistical modeling

Forecasting

Data analysis

Communication skills

Lean principles

Education

College degree in Supply Chain Management or related field

Tools

SAP APO

Power BI

MS Excel

Job description

Job ID: 2480

Overview

Newell Brands is a leading $8.3B consumer products company with a portfolio of iconic brands such as Graco, Coleman, Oster, Rubbermaid and Sharpie, and 25,000 talented employees around the world. Our high-performance culture, curiosity about the world around us, and talented people fuel our success. Our culture is enabled through our core values which guide all we do and how we win as One Newell: Integrity, Teamwork, Passion for Winning, Ownership & Leadership.

This position has ownership of demand planning activities for a group of strategic channels and is responsible for ensuring the demand planning process delivers a reliable forecast as a key input to the supply planning system. As a Sr Demand Planner, they will focus on:

• Working with the Business Units, Sales, Operations, Supply Planning and Finance teams in the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process to assure alignment between the forecast and financial plans
• Developing and monitoring process metrics to drive conformance, problem solving and improvement
• Identifying quantified risks within the demand plan, reviewing gaps with Customer and Trade teams and developing appropriate countermeasures for resolution
• Managing input of SKU / DC / Customer requirements for replenishment, promotions, events, seasonal volumes and adds / deletes and validating plans directly with the customer
• Maintaining KPI's of forecast accuracy and bias. Providing analysis and reports as required in support of KPI improvement

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Create and / or maintain forecasting models for each item at each stocking location and for every customer within designated product lines to achieve established forecast accuracy goals.
• Execute the demand planning process, clarify ambiguity, develop approaches to new conditions, address bias and deliver forecasts of unconstrained customer level demand.
• Developing and monitoring process metrics to drive process conformance, problem solving and improvement
• Leading the forecast collaboration process with Customer and Channel Trade teams to provide a baseline dollar forecast for lower-level forecast alignment.
• Collaborates with, and challenges where appropriate, the account facing logistics team to drive alignment with sales dollar forecasts.
• Reviewing system generated statistical forecast for account level sku / dc inconsistencies and making adjustments across the planning horizon by utilizing customer prior shipments, POS data, knowledge of business unit trends, and upcoming promotions to guide decision making.
• Manage demand history to realign forecasts based on item version changes, customer entity changes, etc.
• Update forecasts to assist in the conversion (run out) from one item to another.
• Ensuring that all discrete forecasts are appropriately added to the system, including promotions, events, POG’s, discontinued and new products, and version changes.
• Prepare and present the demand plan and its assumptions, drivers and risks during the S&OP Demand Review meeting.
• Communicating with plants, Supply Planning, Trade, Sales and Finance to ensure translation of the demand plan across and through the organization.
• Problem solving the highest causes of error by researching error, determining root cause and driving for improvement.
• Supporting growth and innovation as a thought leader on developing, monitoring and changing of the demand plan.

Other Duties & Responsibilities

• Contribute to the success of the overall business by representing supply chain interests in cross-functional project teams to implement changes to business processes
• Operating as a strategic thought leader / change agent working collaboratively with the supply chain teams on priority initiatives that optimize service, inventory and cost for the total value chain
• Identifies opportunities for improvement, makes constructive suggestions for change and drive for results
• The right candidate will need to build and manage relationships with customers planning, supply chain, and order intake
• Will perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• College degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business Management or related technical field.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience which includes experience across multiple aspects of the supply chain with previous roles in forecasting, manufacturing planning and / or inventory management.
• Advanced knowledge of statistical modeling and demand systems (e.g., JDA, Logility, etc.)
• Direct interaction with customers.
• Expertise in data acquisition, spreadsheet / database development and analysis.
• Experience utilizing Lean principles and tools (Flow, Pull, Kanban, Kaizen, Value Stream Mapping, etc.).
• Ability to process large amounts of data and deliver a concise recommendation.
• Influence others and drive cross-functional alignment.
• Communicate at various organizational levels and back-up thoughts with facts.
• Build strong, collaborative relationships with internal and external business partners.
• Work effectively in a constantly changing, fast paced team environment.
• Manage your own schedule and exhibit flexibility to support multiple projects while meeting all deadlines.
• Proficiency with Excel, Access, PowerPoint and other MS Office applications, and supply chain planning and optimization tools.
• SAP APO, IBP and / or Power BI experience.
• Strong communication (written, verbal and presentation) and organizational skills.
• Detail oriented.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Strong results orientation and work ethic; able to work independently.
• Occasional travel required to Company, customer and / or partner locations in support of supply chain initiatives.