Demand Planning Manager

Role Overview

• Build, maintain and continually develop the North American demand plan for a subset of customers, both bricks and mortar retailers and online.
• Collaborate with Commercial, Marketing and Finance to ensure latest market intelligence is incorporated into the demand plan and sell through forecast.
• Assure reconciliation of forecast with financial trend and clearly communicate gaps.
• Consistently identify areas of risk and opportunity to the business plan due to internal/external factors and alert management with proposed actions.
• Animate the forecast meetings to ensure objectives are clearly identified and decisions are made.
• Interact with supply planning partners to identify forecast deviation and/or supply chain constraints and find solutions.
• Challenge regional NPD forecasts and ensure all new launch factors are incorporated into demand plan.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders to ensure the latest information is always available to supply chain.
• Work with Customer Supply Chain colleagues to ensure key customer input (eg stock holding, on shelf availability) is considered in the forecasts.
• Management and tracking of regional planning KPIs.

Requirements

• A strong educational background
• 2+ years of experience working as a Demand Planner is essential. Experience of working in other areas of Supply Chain is also desirable.
• Experience of challenging forecasting assumptions and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Able to demonstrate real examples of taking ownership of projects/improvements right through to the end result.
• Understanding and commercial awareness of the total supply chain including supply planning and customer supply chain teams.
• Experience of working with and implementing a forecasting system (FuturMaster experience is a bonus!)
• Attention to detail, and an ability to spot anomalies in large data sets
• An advanced user of Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to work independently and autonomously with confidence is essential.
• An entrepreneurial flair, real commerciality and great relationship building abilities!

Benefits

• Generous staff discount to use on all products
• Access to Tilbury Treats – our very own rewards platform allowing you to save money and gain ‘money can’t buy’ discounts on anything from gym memberships to cinema tickets
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Commuter Benefits (Pre-tax)
• Flex Spending Account (FSA)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401(k) with Company match
• Paid Time Off
• Birthday PTO