Demand Planning Manager

Headquartered in North York, ON, with employees in Canada, the US, China and India, NewAge is an industry-leading manufacturer and distributor of premium home improvement solutions.
Our products are sold through major online retailers such as Lowes, The Home Depot, Costco, Amazon, and Wayfair as well as our own e-commerce site. But what makes us unique is that we provide a truly cohesive customer experience, from free expert assistance designing and planning new spaces to delivery and professional installation.
Our collaborative, inclusive team atmosphere nurtures personal growth, career advancement and job satisfaction, as evidenced by our certification as a Great Place to Work in Canada and our 4.4 out of 5 rating on Glassdoor.
With tremendous pride, we continue to receive a growing number of industry accolades including over 75 unique product patents, awards for our team of expert designers, prominent ranking on the Profit 500 list of Canada’s fastest growing companies, and the naming of our founders to the Top 40 under 40 in Canada by BNN Bloomberg.
As our journey to becoming the preferred choice for premium home improvement solutions continues, we’re adding ambitious, driven, passionate members to our team who are inspired to be their best and ready to make a difference.
NewAge is looking for a Demand Planning Manager to join our Forecasting & Inventory Allocation team.
**Duties and Responsibilities**
- Hire, build, and manage and lead a team of 3-5 forecasting analysts and coordinators in maintaining and ensuring process of updating, and outputting multiple forecasting models.
- Design and improve the forecasting process and ecosystem by implementing on the most relevant technologies and forecasting methods.
- Partner with cross functional teams to create a model of delivering uniform demand information, ensuring alignment for on several levels of detail: orders, demand of individual SKUs, and sales dollars.
- Create and maintain delivery of data through SOPs and automation to cross functional teams - supply chain, logistics, advertising, sales, finance and others if necessary.
- Develop processes for identifying and integrating key external and macro market trend data into forecasting models.
- Create a short term to 18 month rolling forecast using historical sales data, macro market indicators, promotional planning information and other decision variables identified.
- Determine, and document rationales for influencing key variables of the forecasting
- Develop and own reporting for purpose of measuring forecasting accuracy against KPI targets, as well as compare to determined budgets to be distributed to key stakeholders.
- Spearhead root-cause analysis for forecasting deltas, identifying the key conditions change or incorrect assumptions for implementing appropriate adjustments for both short
- and long-term projections.
- Drive the technical roadmap related to demand planning and forecasting with IT and other stakeholders, considering a long-term viewpoint

**Role Requirements**
- 5-8 years’ experience in working analytical environment, in an area directly or closely related to demand planning and forecasting
- Graduate or master’s degree in Business, Statistics, or Computer Science related field
- Advanced Microsoft Office Suite skills are a must
- Experience with third party demand planning suites is an asset
- Working knowledge of Python or R (pandas, numpy, scipy) is a strong asset
- Understanding, and experience working with Holt-Winters based projections is an asset
- Occasional travel to GTA HQ may be required.
- Ability to maintain strong productivity with multiple ongoing projects
- Strong interpersonal skills, ability to maintain high integrity with team members in fast paced environment
- Strong communication skills, namely ability to present analytical concepts in easy to understand, digestible manner
- Idea generation, proactively recommending and understanding the changing analytical landscape

**NewAge Offers**:

- Benefits package
- An opportunity within a growing, fast-paced company, well established in its industry
- Fun We celebrate successes, and hold special events to build strong teams.

**How to Apply**:
Headquartered in North York, Ontario, with employees in the US, China and India, NewAge is committed to being a **trusted brand** in the home improvement industry by offering unique products, exceptional value and a best-in-class customer experience.
As a company, our core values are to **simplify** the complex, **respect** the dignity of all people, operate with **integrity and openness**, recognize our **responsibility **to the team and take a **customer centric** approach to everything we do.
If you identify with these values, you could be a great fit and valued member of our team
NewAge Products is an equal opportunity employer, committed to inclusion and diversity. We provide employment accommodation in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Ac