Senior Demand Planning Specialist

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 competitor information, 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 competitor information, 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 devi…

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