Sr Demand Planner

What You’ll Do

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a demand plan, incorporating statistical baseline forecasts, market intelligence, and qualitative adjustments.
• Lead the analysis of historical trends to generate accurate forecasts, identifying trends in fast and slow-moving products, and maintaining seasonality trends.
• Manage and monitor demand planning KPIs at the network level, including Forecast Accuracy, Bias, and Stability.
• Develop and manage a standardized approach to root cause analysis of top errors across the network, ensuring subsequent forecast corrections are documented and validated appropriately.
• Actively participate in weekly S&OE meetings, aligning short-term demand plans with SIOP plans.
• Integrate scenario planning into demand reviews, incorporating risks and opportunities to ensure demand plans are based on live information.
• Engage with Finance, Sales, Marketing, and Strategic Business Unit leaders to evaluate forecasts versus actual sales (volume, trends, and mix).
• Collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders from portfolio and supply planning steps in SIOP to fine-tune the demand plan.
• Present demand plan outputs in relevant Network and SIOP team reviews.
• Proactively study SIOP and S&OE best practices and collaborate with global stakeholders to improve supply and demand relationships.
• Support functional vision by working closely with cross-functional team members, Functional Managers, and Program Managers.
  

Qualifications

Skills

• Proficient skills level in MS Office: Advanced Excel and Power Point presentations.
• Proficient in planning tools like Kinaxis, Demantra, Forecast Pro, Demand Solutions.
• Proficient and good hands-on exposure on ERP (Preferred Oracle, SAP, Mfg. Pro)
• Proficient in one or two tools like Power BI/ Tableau, MS Access, SQL, R/ Python