Job Description

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Position Title: Demand Planner

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time \xe2\x80\x8b

Position Location: Toronto HQ OR Florenceville OR Oakbrook

Grade: 04

Requisition ID: 23747

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JOB SUMMARY:

The Demand Planner is responsible for creating and maintaining a demand plan for assigned business segments and running all processes associated with the creation of an accurate demand signal to drive the supply chain.

The demand planner is responsible for incorporating key business intelligence into the demand signal, including insights and inputs from marketing, sales, and finance along with data intelligence reports.

The Demand Planner is the key integration point into the marketing and commercial organization. This position leads the dialogue each month for their respective customers and products with key counterparts in Marketing and Sales.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Generate a demand plan at multiple levels of aggregation and for multiple time horizons.
• Drives the monthly consensus process for assigned business segments linking with commercial partners to evaluate and align on monthly volumes by sku/category for the next 3 months and 12 months.
• Update the demand plan to be reflective of marketing and commercial assumptions and inputs.
• Lead continues improvement in forecast accuracy. Identify process and systems gaps. Identify leading causes of forecast error with the corresponding deployment of improvement initiatives to prevent future occurrence
• Accountable for meeting forecast accuracy KPI targets. Maintain and publish demand planning metrics \xe2\x80\x93 manage and drive improvement plans across various levels of forecast aggregation and multiple time horizons.
• Has a good understanding of related supply chain processes and the impact demand planning has on them.
• Manage the communication flow of changes to forecast and disseminates information to all stakeholders accordingly.
• Use and maintain SAP IBP as primary forecasting system.
• Create and accurately maintain master data designated fields for assigned portfolio.
• Manage statistical forecast exceptions by utilizing alerts, reports, and other analyses to identify and correct potential outliers.
• Prepare for and facilitate demand consensus planning activities including generating and publishing reports, coordinating and leading cross functional meetings, using a collaborative approach to develop and improve the consensus forecast.
• Review, scrub and analyze the forecast through scrutiny of variances, historical sales trends including rolling averages, year over year data, research of demand drivers, and other customer and market related changes.
• Accountable for acquiring the skills to retrieve relevant data from various systems; ability to create own reports.
• Accountable to generate and/or execute the various weekly and/or monthly processes and reports assigned in support of continuous improvement and forecast quality.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Statistics or related discipline
• At least 2-5 yrs. experience in Demand planning, forecasting, supply planning Experience. Experience with a CPG company a plus
• Excellent analytical, statistical, and organizational skills. Must be detailed oriented and highly organized.
• Able to think through and analyze large amount of data, models and results
• High proficiency in tools used for data analysis such as Excel
• Ability to lead and influence other in reaching a consensus forecast.
• Experience with facilitation of Forecast Consensus discussions.
• Effective communication skills (both oral and written) with the ability to interact with multiple departments and all levels of the organization

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McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

The health and safety of McCain employees and their families has been our number one priority since the start of COVID-19 pandemic. With vaccination restrictions easing across the globe we do not currently require employees to be vaccinated, but we reserve the right to change this mandate in line with health guidance and regulations in each country.

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Job Family: Supply Chain & Logistics
Division: NA Supply Chain
Department: \xe2\x80\x8bDemand Planning Potatoes \xe2\x80\x8b
Location(s): CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto || CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Florenceville-Bristol || US - United States of America : Illinois : Oakbrook Terrace

Company: McCain Foods (Canada)

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