Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Business Administration, Logistics, Supply Chain, or related field.
Minimum of 5 years planning experience, preferably within a multi-plant or multi-divisional business.
Proven experience in managing demand planning activities in a complex environment.
APICS certification preferred.
SAP and Manugistics experience are a plus.
Strong demand and supply planning skills.
Teamwork and excellent communication skills.
Advanced Excel, analytical & reporting skills.
Troubleshooting skills.
Must be self-starter.
Must work well under pressure and can multi-task.
Flexibility to undertake a variety of tasks that may not fall within the day-to-day routine.
Responsibilities
Proactively identify and resolve directly or through business partnership any issue affecting the product flow
Organize and run forecast consensus meetings (S&OP inspired process) with Marketing, Sales and Finance. Review the forecast bias, supply risks and inventory at risk with the teams and reassess the supply chain strategy for each product.
Collaboratively review historical sales, research demand events, prepare forecast data, and evaluate forecast performance with stakeholders
Use statistical modeling in Manugistics and other Excel-based tools and analytics to generate the baseline demand forecast
Optimize the supply chain model by brand, by type of product to achieve the balance between inventory and service level to our customers.
Oversee the analysis of all the Supply Chain KPIs (Forecast accuracy, Inventory levels, Service level (BO trend), Supply performance).
Provide oversight for new product launch/commercialization initiatives.
Partner with Sales Operations team to identify opportunities and implement solutions for field assets management optimization
Collaborate with global organization on projects affecting the product portfolio and/or the supply network
Ensure solid partnership and end to end alignment with key stakeholders: commercial organizations, local and regional supply chain organizations (Plan, Make, Source), Customer, Logistics, Quality, Regulatory Affairs and Product Management
Work directly with Supply Chain staff on special projects and other duties as assigned