Senior Demand Planning Leader — MBP & Forecast Excellence

Nestlé Health Science; Bridgewater (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k match

Healthcare coverage

Inclusive workplace

Job summary

Nestlé Health Science in the United States seeks a Demand Planning professional to own the accuracy and reliability of the Demand Plan for Nature's Bounty in the US. You will champion MBP processes, deploy planning tools, and collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Finance and Operations to drive a robust forecast.

The role requires a background in demand planning with strong analytical skills and a track record of improving forecast accuracy.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to influence others.
• Demand Planning and statistical forecasting techniques.
• Experience of implementing processes and systems to improve organization and working methods.
• Strong analytical aptitude with a proven ability to analyze/interpret data and build quantitative models of business problems.
• Excellent oral and written skills, organizational and time-management abilities, effective inter-personal skills, and the ability to work with personnel at all organizational levels.
• Flexibility and adaptability to the demands and requirements of a fast-paced environment with multiple demands and priorities.
• Creative thinking skills with emphasis on developing innovative solutions to complex problems.

Responsibilities

• Generates and maintains a Demand Plan for the business unit at the levels (customer and product hierarchy & time) at which the decisions are taken, appropriately considering recent events.
• Understands Demand Planning key performance metrics and targets.
• Consistently improves Demand Plan Accuracy and drives out systematic forecast bias through detailed root cause analysis on past performance, maintaining an efficient learning log.
• Effectively uses all Demand Planning system functionalities to enable an exception based management approach.
• Contributes to the cross-functional planning activities according to best practices and ensures necessary preparation and follow up actions for the Monthly Business Planning meetings are completed in due time.
• Makes recommendations on the baseline forecast for the business unit and defends the appropriate changes to the Consensus Demand Plan (CDP).
• Captures, prioritizes and analyses forecast assumptions used in the consensus demand plan, such as Marketing and Sales events, customer, consumer and competitor information, product launches and related cannibalization with impact to the demand plan.
• Analyses actual sales to Customers and sell-out data to identify exceptional and un-forecasted activities, challenging the appropriate groups to help explain deviations to forecast.
• Presents outcomes for the Monthly Business Planning process to leadership and get buy-in from the relevant stakeholders.
• Through systematic reporting, ensures the latest Demand Plan is readily available to internal business partners as required.
• Holds meetings with Sales to review past performance of key distributors and identify gaps/changes to their actual sales in vs their trace sales out.
• Facilitate meetings with Sales to review upcoming contract wins/losses, identifying phasing, timing, run rate, quantity, etc and validating with Business Operations that actuals are coming in as planned.
• Actively participates in Demand Planning functional meetings with other business units to share experiences and best practices.
• Cascades knowledge of Demand Planning Best Practices and tools to other Demand planners, new hires and cross-functional teams.

Skills

Demand Planning

Forecasting

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Flexibility

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

High School Diploma

Job description

Nestlé Health Science in the United States seeks a Demand Planning professional to own the accuracy and reliability of the Demand Plan for Nature's Bounty in the US. You will champion MBP processes, deploy planning tools, and collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Finance and Operations to drive a robust forecast.

The role requires a background in demand planning with strong analytical skills and a track record of improving forecast accuracy.