Demand Planner

4 weeks ago

Mississauga, Canada Trophy Foods Inc. Full time

Trophy Foods is Canada's leading supplier of high-quality edible nuts, dried fruit and confectionery products. We pride ourselves on providing the highest quality products, at the best value, through our direct channel of global grower relationships.


Trophy Foods Inc. is Canadian owned and operated with over 40 years of experience in serving our customers. We produce edible nuts, dried fruits, confectionery and bulk foods under our Trophy brand. We also work with grocery retailers, mass merchandisers, drug channel, and food service customers across the country to create and produce a wide variety of private label branded products.


Overview: Reporting directly to the Customer Solutions & Planning Manager, the Demand Planner will be responsible for supporting and managing demand planning activities on a national level for Trophy Foods. The incumbent of this position will have the mandate to create, deploy and manage a best-in-class Demand Planning function, including the development of processes, procedures, and supporting tools to enable a collaborative planning environment.


Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Accountable for supporting process ownership for Demand Planning, ensuring a consistently robust demand planning process being executed monthly:
  • Drive consensus meetings inclusive of all relevant commercial stakeholders, reflecting all initiatives and demand drivers in a consensus forecast (e.g., new product launches, delisted/discontinued products, promos, and seasonal items, etc.).
  • Build, maintain, and publish a rolling 18-month forecast monthly.
  • Lead exception-based reviews with cross-functional partners (i.e., operations) which identifies potential issues that may compromise the delivery of the consensus forecast.
  • Collaborate with Operations and Commercial functions to develop mitigation plans required to maintain the integrity of the demand plan and minimize the impact of identified constraints.
  • Provide summary performance metrics targeted at ensuring process compliance and enabling continuous improvement (i.e., forecast error, bias, etc.).
  • Maintain a unit level shipment forecast for a rolling 18-month horizon (including seasonal SKUs and special packs) across assigned categories.
  • Support consensus forecasting process:
  • Publish baseline forecast.
  • Collection and incorporation of commercial overrides (e.g., changes in promo timing, new listings / de-listings, competitive behavior, etc.) into the rolling forecast.
  • Forecast performance reporting (e.g., forecast quality / bias) for assigned categories.
  • Support the annual budgeting process and LE reporting exercises as required.
  • Support continuous improvement efforts aimed at increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the Demand Planning processes.
  • Participate in key projects, such as supply chain improvement initiatives.
  • Other ad-hoc tasks, as required.


Experience, Qualifications, and Educational Requirements:

  • Undergraduate degree, ideally in areas such as business, statistics, or mathematics.
  • 1 to 3 years of Demand Planning experience.
  • Experience working in ERP systems (JDE would be an asset).
  • Prior experience in consumer goods and knowledge of grocery retailers would be an asset.
  • Proven understanding of forecasting processes, forecasting systems and statistical analysis.
  • Strong analytical and data mining skills, with expert level capabilities in Excel is required.


Accountabilities for Success:

  • Collaborate and partner with others through actively building positive and productive relationships, working to understand different viewpoints, and treating people of varying backgrounds and perspectives fairly.
  • Communicate ideas and information in an effective manner by listening, demonstrating understanding, readily sharing information, and keeping appropriate parties up to date.
  • Take initiative to understand and produce results aligned to department priorities and accept responsibility for performance and results.
  • Identify causes of problems and develop solutions to make effective, timely decisions.
  • Demonstrate a commitment to Trophy’s vision and mission. Understand how individual decisions and actions impact the needs of the department as well as overall corporate goals.


Trophy is an equal opportunity employer that values workforce diversity. Diversity is core to our business: by embedding diversity into all aspects of our culture, we maximize the opportunity to achieve sustainable business success and growth. Trophy Foods Inc. provides equal opportunities in employment, promotions, wages, benefits and all other privileges, terms, and conditions of employment to all qualified persons without regard to race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by the applicable Federal and Provincial laws.


Trophy Foods has an accommodation process in place and provides accommodations for employees with disabilities. If you require a specific accommodation because of a disability or a medical need, please advise us during the recruitment process so that arrangements can be made for the appropriate accommodations to be in place before you begin your employment.

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