Senior Customer Demand Planner

Mondelez Canada; Toronto; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the snacking industry seeks a Customer Demand Planner to play a crucial role in forecasting and managing demand across various product categories. The ideal candidate will possess a Bachelor's degree and significant experience in supply chain or sales planning. You will collaborate with sales and supply teams to ensure accuracy in forecasting and develop effective solutions to drive business results.

Qualifications

• 3 years related experience in Supply Chain or Sales Planning, preferably in CPG industry.
• Proficiency in data analytics and ability to provide insights based on trends.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, for articulating solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead demand management agenda and oversee demand review processes.
• Drive continuous capability building within the demand planning team.
• Interface with sales and supply teams to manage customer forecast performance.

Skills

Forecasting

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Supply Chain Experience

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

PowerBI

MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint)

SAP APO

SAP Supply Chain Management

Job description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelz International

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Possible

You will oversee demand planning activities for your assigned productfamilies in your business unit. Youwill also lead the demand reviewprocess and driving interactions withthe crossfunctional teams.

How you will contribute

You will :

• Lead the demand management agenda for the category being the key interface betweencommercial (sales revenue planning) and supply (replenishment) to identify and evaluatethe impact of potential availability issues / commercial changes including gap assessment andrisk and opportunity discussions
• Partner with modelling team for the generation of statistical forecasting
• Manage coach and develop a team
• Review standard consumption versus forecast at the customer and total product levelsliaising with replenishment and sales revenue planning to manage potential availabilityissues and the impact of under consumption
• Drive strong linkages with the commercial customer collaboration modelling orderfulfilmentteams and supply planning including innovation and equity
• Drive continuous capability building in the demand planning team for planningimprovement

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge :

• Comprehensive supply chain economic financial or logistics experience andcommercial awareness in a fastmoving consumer goods or consumer packaged goods environment
• Open to learn new ways of working and is willing to use new tools
• Experience driving demand review and participation in an IBP cycle
• Able to influence crossfunctional teams working on the key priorities and improving theplan
• Able to build effective teams
• Knowledge in leading practice demand planning and endtoend supply chainconcepts
• Excellent problemsolving skills analytical skills and verbal and written communicationskills

More about this role

The Customer Demand Planner is a key contributor to the Demand Planning segment of the Integrated Business Planning process by leading the short to midterm forecast planning (015 months) in APOA with key inputs from CBT and external customers (where applicable). This role will serve to facilitate multiple forums; generating insight and in turn will provide demand inputs accordingly. This forecast output is utilized for Revenue reporting and Production Planning. Customer Demand Planning partners with the Category Demand Planning team and is a joint owner of gap reconciliation between the category and customer level forecast.

In addition to forecasting responsibilities this person may be asked to lead root cause analysis innovation management or other ad hoc collaboration initiatives. The position will interface with Sales Sales Strategy Category Demand Planning Supply Planning and others to communicate this forecast that drives our Operating Plan as well as supports key CS&L metrics and overall business results. An understanding of Supply Chain principles is required.

What you need to know about this position :

This will be a customer facing role that will work closely with the Sales team and where relationship exist with the customer demand counterparts in customer forecast generation and alignment for all categories. This role will be responsible for achieving customer forecast performance targets.

What extra ingredients you will bring :

• Build an unbiased / unconstrained CBT recommended category / PPG / sku APO shipment forecast using crossfunctional inputs consumption / shipment analysis and overlays that will be used for Revenue reporting Production Planning and deployment downstream.
• Review the disaggregated shortterm demand plan in APO which includes SKU / location mix and weekly pacing.
• Maintain key parameters in APO such as proper sku mix innovations phase out and discontinuations
• Ensure that an APO accurate forecast is passed through the system with appropriate communication to Operations as needed as part of the S&OE process.
• Facilitate communication of updates / exceptions explain variances vs. prior year annual contract and prior estimate and report on forecast accuracy.
• Drive forecast alignment with external customers leveraging data to influence forecasts. Align demand profiles for new skus and promotions to ensure replenishment orders come in as expected.
• Perform rootcause analysis for continuous plan improvement for key service issues forecast error and bias to be shared on monthly KPI review.
• Provide thought leadership and act as the subject matter expert in reporting insights to strengthen segment brand and category efforts by customer.
• Clearly communicate all assumptions drivers risks and opportunities within and outside current forecast plan
• Present data to cross functional teams to shape new product launches customer intelligence and rationalization; influencing execution decisions.

Education / Certifications :

• Bachelors Degree is required

Job specific requirements :

• 3 years related experience in Supply Chain or Sales Planning is required and preferably within the CPG industry.
• PowerBI experience is an asset.
• MS Office tools efficiency Windows environment : Intermediate Excel and Power point
• Strong communication skills; ability to articulate issues both verbally and in writing outlining possible solutions.
• Proficiency in data analytics and gathering factbased insight based on trends.
• Experience leading Consensus forums where negotiation and influencing skills will be essential.
• Regular business working hours MF

Business Unit Summary

Mondelez welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates with disabilities taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Please note that the term accommodation in this posting means changes that are made in order to meet the needs of a person with disabilities and not lodging.

Job Type

Regular

Demand Planning

Customer Service & Logistics

Required Experience :

Senior IC

Key Skills

Forecasting,Microsoft Access,Math,SAP,Supply Chain Experience,Analysis Skills,SAP APO,SAP Supply Chain Management,Production Planning,SAP ERP,ERP Systems,MRP

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

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