Market Planning Lead- Contract

**THIS IS A 15-18 MONTH CONTRACT ROLE** **About us** At Upfield our purpose is clear: we make people healthier and happier with nutritious and delicious, natural, plant-based products that are good for you, our planet; and with packaging that's free from plastic. We've got iconic brands like Becel, Country Crock, Blue Band and Flora that people all over the world know and love. We've been a trusted category leader since 1871 and yet we feel like we're only just getting started. Performance, Passion and Care define who we are as a company, how we work every day, and the responsibility we feel toward our Associates, our consumers, our business partners and our world. We have big ambitions to grow this business and we want to attract the right people - those that love what they do, thrive on responsibility and are looking for career defining opportunities. **The role** The Market Planning lead is key to achieving not only supply chain targets of service and working capital, but also plays a key role in the company's overall business results. This role is directly responsible for the execution of the Demand Planning process with a focus on collaborative "bottom-up" planning with sales and marketing. As the lead for the planning team, this role oversees the supply planning, scheduling and material planning functions and acts as the pivotal communication point for supply and service constraints between SC and the business team. **Responsibilities will include**: - Manage and monitor the sales impacts through the planning horizon via continuous review and assessment of the demand forecast - Develop and modify the short - and long-range forecast in SAP IBP with inputs from other forecasting tools - Lead monthly consensus meetings with the sales teams to align on upcoming promotional forecasts - Lead the monthly Demand Review Meeting as part of the S&OP process - Lead weekly supply review meetings with the planning team to discuss inventory projections, production plans, material issues and service impacts - Communicate the latest demand forecast to planning, logistics and customer service teams following S&OP process - Work with the planning and customer service teams to ensure stock availability and to develop scenarios to mitigate service disruptions - Analyze forecast accuracy and bias to identify and implement process enhancements to improve these KPI's - Manage and monitor obsolete inventory through business waste process - Project lead for the planning team for all ongoing and new transformational supply chain projects **Requirements**: - Bachelor's Degree in Sciences or Business, (preferably Supply Chain, Economics, Logistics) - Experience leading a team of direct reports - 3-5 years of relevant experience in supply chain planning in CPG industry - SAP IBP and advanced Microsoft Excel skills - Experience with Power BI is an asset - Excellent communicate and interpersonal skills with proven ability to influence senior leadership - Strong analytical skills and exceptional attention to detail - Proven success creating and leading processes and project teams **What's next** - Upfield is an employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and equal opportunities for all. We recruit based only on values, qualifications, performance, skills, behaviours, experience, and knowledge. We ensure job advertisements are free from unintentional bias._ - No personal characteristics should be a barrier to joining Upfield. We prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or other personal characteristics._ - #LI-HYBRID_