Planning Specialist III

What You Can Expect The demand planner coordinates all steps within the demand planning process from demand collection to the approved demand plan for a designated Market. They are responsible for integrating data from Product Marketing, Development, and Sales to create and improve the Demand planning process. Through monthly planning sessions, this position will monitor and advise recommended action plans to ensure accurate forecasting. How You'll Create Impact Analyze historic and current demand trends, and generate and evaluate the market baselines Execute and strategically create the future fulfillment plans Enable ZB to achieve high quality demand plans by increasing forecast accuracy for specific products withintheir specific countries Serve as the subject matter expert for all the demand plans of designated market Work with IT to ensure and verify data quality Prepare monthly management reports identifying any relevant problems and recommending solutions thatwill improve future demand plans Confirm that business assumptions used to generate demand plans are reviewed, updated, and documented Cleanse the demand history from one-off effects (HIE and others) and other effects that have the potential toreduce the data quality for later statistical projection steps Plan for and participate in demand review meetings Perform segmentation for product customer combinations based on the demand history for ABC (Volumeand the historical demand for XYZ (Variability) Interact with all organizations of the company including marketing, sales, finance, and manufacturing toensure smooth demand planning process What Makes You Stand Out Experience with forecasting software, SAP Microsoft Excel and all other Microsoft office products Ability to use statistics and mathematics to create accurate demand plans Ability to quickly and accurately generate action requirements based on Planning system outputs Ability to communicate across all levels of an organization Excellent written and verbal skills Your Background BS or BA in Supply Chain, Logistics, Operations, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, Mathematics, or other related field Min 5 years’ experience working in demand planning/forecasting or Sales projections Supply Chain experience with good understanding of processes in sales, marketing, and finance Experience with SAP, APO, ERP, IBP, BW, Tableau, Kinaxis a plus Travel Expectations 5186 Show more Show less