Demand Planner

Job Description

As a member of the global demand planning team, the Demand Planner will leverage statistical forecasting models, as well as interact with finance, product management and sales leaders, to generate a statistical baseline forecast every month in the S&OP cycle

Responsibilities

• Leverage the SAP IBP demand-planning system to create and maintain a best fit statistical forecast. This includes maintenance of SKU segmentation, outlier correction and a detailed understanding of statistical models.
• Interact with sales, marketing and finance to understand and interpret the potential impact that market trends and demand drivers can have on demand to adjust.
• Communicate the baseline statistical demand plan, along with any scenarios regarding potential upside opportunity and downside risk, to supply chain and operations partners.
• Partner with the demand planning organizational person to ensure demand scenario strategies are aligned.
• Develop, monitor and communicate reports on changes and forecast accuracy to business unit and supply chain organizations, while driving continuous improvement.
• Measure, analyze and report key process metrics and monitor adherence to key performance indicators (KPIs), Such as forecast value add (FVA)
• Prepare data visualizations and presentations to support the monthly Demand Review meetings and participate in other S&OP meetings throughout the cycle.
  
   

Requirements
 

• Minimum of 3-5 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree within Operations, Logistics, Business Administration, Supply Chain or Life Science disciplines
• Extensive Experience with statistical forecasting analysis and systems.
• Experience of various statistical forecast models (e.g. Holt-Winters, Exponential Smoothing, XG-Boost, Gradient boosting, Cronston Models)
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to structure and perform data analysis. (Monte Carlo simulations etc)
• Ability to distil complex issues into simple effective messages for management.
• Intermediate level skills with Microsoft Office suite.
• Strong project management skills.

Effective verbal, written, and presentation skills.