Senior Demand Planning Specialist

Fuseglobal; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Disability insurance

Job summary

FuseGlobal is seeking a Senior Demand Planning Specialist to manage the Demand Plan for a US-based role with remote flexibility. You will lead data integrity, forecast accuracy, and cross-functional collaboration across Sales, Marketing, Finance and Operations.

The role emphasizes development and deployment of demand planning processes, reporting, and monthly planning cycles, with an emphasis on data-driven decision making. Remote work from the United States is supported.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Experience in demand or supply planning preferred.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain Master Data in planning systems to reduce errors.
• Generate and maintain a Demand Plan at product and time levels.
• Monitor and improve demand planning KPIs and forecast bias.
• Leverage planning tools to support exception-based management.
• Support Monthly Business Planning with cross-functional teams.
• Prepare and present Demand Plan outcomes to leadership.
• Ensure latest Demand Plan is accessible to internal partners.
• Collaborate with Supply for discontinuations and reformulations.

Skills

Demand planning

Forecasting

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Job description

Title: Senior Demand Planning Specialist
Location: Remote (candidates must be located in the United States)
Company: Fortune 100 Food & Beverage Manufacturing (FuseGlobal has worked with this company for 20 years)
Initial term: 9 months (position expected to run longer)
Schedule: Mon-Fri; 9 AM - 5 PM Eastern

About This Role:

Responsible for the accuracy and reliability of the Demand Plan for the departments.

This includes implementation of performance standards/operating procedures that affect the Demand Planning function; deployment of related demand planning tools/reports; and maintenance of demand forecast for the business unit.

Champion of the Sales and Operations Planning Process (MBP - Monthly Business Planning), assessing content of the Monthly Sales and Gap Reviews through collaboration meetings with cross functional partners, and Weekly Business Review (WBR) meetings, ensuring robust business processes and facilitating the interaction between Sales, Marketing, Finance and Operations

What You'll Do:

• Creates and maintains the appropriate Master Data in the planning systems in use, minimizing errors, avoiding duplication/obsolescence and reflecting product lifecycle (e.g. Product Hierarchy, Finished Goods creation workflow, Demand Lifecycle Management).
• Generates and maintains a Demand Plan for the business unit at the levels (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 utilizing all Demand Planning system functionalities to enable an exception based management approach. Implement improvements to the Demand Planning processes and tools to deliver tangible benefits (e.g. time saving, efficiencies).
• 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 analyzes forecast assumptions used in the consensus demand plan, such as Marketing and Sales events, customer, consumer and competitorinformation, product launches and related cannibalization with impact to the demand plan.
• Analyzes actual sales to Customers and sell-out (e.g. POS, if available) data to identify exceptional and unforecasted activities, challenging the appropriate groups to help explain deviations to forecast. Use findings to drive timely and appropriate actions to minimize the impact of deviations from the Demand Plan.
• 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.
• 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 analyzes forecast assumptions used in the consensus demand plan, such as Marketing and Sales events, customer, consumer and competitorinformation, product launches and related cannibalization with impact to the demand plan.
• Analyzes actual sales to Customers and sell-out (e.g. POS, if available) data to identify exceptional and unforecasted activities, challenging the appropriate groups to help explain deviations to forecast. Use findings to drive timely and appropriate actions to minimize the impact of deviations from the Demand Plan.
• 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.
• Partnering with supply for discontinuations and reformulations.

What You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• 3-5 years of business experience in one of the functions: Demand & Supply Planning; Supply Chain Development; Procurement; Physical Logistics; Customer Service; Sales & Marketing; Finance.
• Planning experience in the area of Demand or Supply Planning.

Bonus Points:

• Proven ability to influence others.
• Demand Planning and statistical forecasting techniques. Preferable DTC and/or ecommerce.
• 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.
• Up to $43.00 per hour + Overtime
• Medical insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Disability insurance

About FuseGlobal:

FuseGlobal is a partnership of people and brand-leading companies, working together to make things run better. For 25 years we have brought functionality to complex business and production processes and supply chains, resulting in enterprises that run smarter and more sustainably. Interested in digital manufacturing, industrial engineering, supply chain management, all-things tech, and energy & the environment? This is where we live. Engage with us!

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