Demand Planner

6 months ago

Burnaby, Canada Meadowfresh Dairy Corporation Full time

**ROLE**:Demand Planner

**REPORTS TO**:Director of Sales

**LOCATION**:Burnaby/Guelph

We are looking for a Demand Planner to join our dynamic Sales Team Our Demand Planner is responsible for forecasting activities associated with our customers for all our finished goods. The Demand Planner will create and maintain forecast models for customers, incorporating business intelligence and forecast information gathered from sales, marketing, finance, and other sources. Our Demand Planner is also the lead trade support contact responsible for approving and reconciling customer billbacks for all brands.

**OPPORTUNITIES**

This is a very exciting time for our Team as we continue to grow and expand The main challenge is to create and maintain high-quality demand forecasts and demand forecast analytics by assembling and analyzing all data pertinent to creating/maintaining the demand forecast. However, this provides opportunities to leave your footprint on the company and connect with many people in and outside of the company. As lead of our order fulfillment process, you will also be the primary contact between the Sales team and the production planning and customer service teams to ensure forecasts and promotions are effectively communicated. You will get the opportunity to work with all our plants and our incredible group of brands including Organic Meadow, Rolling Meadow, Meadowfresh, Scardillo, Happy Planet, and a2 Milk.

**HERE IS WHO YOU ARE**

**DRIVE & MOTIVATION**
- You enjoy helping others and get along with people
- You enjoy number crunching and solving complex problems
- You enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and are very organized

**CHARACTER & ABILITIES**
- You are passionate about your work and dedicated to your craft
- You are a numbers person and a problem solver
- You are good at multi-tasking and are always on the lookout for ways to improve things
- You are a planner by nature and have an acute ability to think ahead and anticipate issues before they happen
- You are confident and assertive
- You work well with others and are a real team player

**KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS**
- You can multitask, stay organized, and have excellent time management skills
- You are proficient in Microsoft Office with advanced skills in Excel
- You are effective at presenting your work and analysis in a way that is very clear and concise
- You have strong analytical and interpretive skills driving fact-based decisions
- You are extremely customer-focused in ensuring customer orders are fully met
- You are experienced with trade spend programs in the CPG category

**EXPERIENCE**
- You have a postgraduate degree or diploma, ideally with a strong mathematical/statistical component
- You have 3-5 years of Demand Planning experience in food manufacturing

**NICE-TO-HAVE**
- IBF qualification
- Experience with forecasting tools

**THINGS YOU WILL DO**
- Successfully lead sales and demand planning collaborative sessions with key stakeholders to generate weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual demand plans across all our brands
- Support execution of the product life-cycle management process for all new product launches, new SKU sales growth/decline and product exits as it relate to the demand planning function
- Drive continuous improvement in the development, modification, and adjustment of procedures, policies, processes, and technologies within the demand planning organization
- Improve the demand forecast quality and accuracy by effectively analyzing sources of forecast metrics and recommending appropriate action plans through an established S&OP process
- Maintain awareness of industry best practices and the ability to advocate for and translate those into forecasting practices where appropriate
- Key contributor for the distillation of forecast and sales data in support of Management's regular reviews and ad hoc requests
- Work very closely with Sales to monitor and forecast sales trends, particularly for features and promotional lifts
- Lead on approving customer chargebacks and reconciling Trade Spend with the assistance of the Sales team for all our brands

**OTHER **
- You might be required to work overtime during month-end
- You will need to have flexible work hours as working with functional teams across BC and Ontario time zones (EST & PST)

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: $72,000.00-$88,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- Vision care

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Port Coquitlam, BC V3C 6G1: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Demand planning: 3 years (preferred)
- Food and Beverage manufacturing: 2 years (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Burnaby, BC V5C 0E4

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