Demand Planner

Job Description

• Develop and maintain accurate demand forecasts using historical sales data, market trends, and statistical models within our global Planning tool Kinaxis Maestro. This includes appropriately cleansing historical events, running robust statistical modelling, and deciding what is appropriate Intelligence to add looking forward.
• Monitor and analyze Demand planning KPIs like forecast accuracy, forecast value add, forecast
  • Collaboration & Stakeholder Management
    • Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work closely with PU Sales and Marketing team members and align realistic Demand Plans to feed into Supply Planning teams.
    • Support the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process by communicating the updated demand insights along with key changes to assumptions, working with the PU S&OP Manager
    • Work closely with Sales, Finance and PU S&OP Manager on opportunities and vulnerabilities to the demand forecast to assess impact on attainment of business targets
    • Collaborating with other PU teams and global Demand Planning Excellence lead to ensure adoption of required global frameworks and best practices
    Systems & Reporting
    • Utilize demand planning tool, Kinaxis Maestro to enhance forecasting capabilities.
    • Maintain and improve reporting dashboards to track key performance indicators such as forecast accuracy, bias, and inventory levels.
    • Continuously improve demand planning processes through data-driven insights and best practices

Keyskills :
demand supply planningindirect purchasingdemand managementdemand analysisvendor managed inventorysupplier rationalizationdemandinventory analysis