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Toronto - Canada

Monthly Salary drjobs

$ 58800 - 78500

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Position Title: Demand Planner

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Position Location: Toronto HQ

Grade:Grade 04

Requisition ID:36488


In every role McCainers are ambitious curious and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset we make doing business with McCain easy.

About the role
The Demand Planner is responsible for creating and maintaining a demand plan for assigned business segments and running all processes associated with the creation of an accurate demand signal to drive the supply chain.

The Demand Planner is responsible for incorporating key business intelligence into the demand signal including insights and inputs from marketing sales and finance along with data intelligence reports.

The Demand Planner is the key integration point into the marketing and commercial organization. This position leads the dialogue each month for their respective customers and products with key counterparts in Marketing and Sales.

This role can be based in any of the three corporate offices: Toronto Florenceville Oakbrook.


Essential Duties and responsibilities

  • Generate a demand plan at multiple levels of aggregation and for multiple time horizons.
  • Drives the monthly consensus process for assigned business segments linking with commercial partners to evaluate and align on monthly volumes by sku/category for the next 3 months and 12 months.
  • Update the demand plan to be reflective of marketing and commercial assumptions and inputs.
  • Lead continues improvement in forecast accuracy. Identify process and systems gaps. Identify leading causes of forecast error with the corresponding deployment of improvement initiatives to prevent future occurrence
  • Accountable for meeting forecast accuracy KPI targets. Maintain and publish demand planning metrics manage and drive improvement plans across various levels of forecast aggregation and multiple time horizons.
  • Has a good understanding of related supply chain processes and the impact demand planning has on them.
  • Manage the communication flow of changes to forecast and disseminates information to all stakeholders accordingly.
  • Use and maintain SAP IBP as primary forecasting system.
  • Create and accurately maintain master data designated fields for assigned portfolio.
  • Manage statistical forecast exceptions by utilizing alerts reports and other analyses to identify and correct potential outliers.
  • Prepare for and facilitate demand consensus planning activities including generating and publishing reports coordinating and leading cross functional meetings using a collaborative approach to develop and improve the consensus forecast.
  • Review scrub and analyze the forecast through scrutiny of variances historical sales trends including rolling averages year over year data research of demand drivers and other customer and market related changes.
  • Accountable for acquiring the skills to retrieve relevant data from various systems; ability to create own reports.
  • Accountable to generate and/or execute the various weekly and/or monthly processes and reports assigned in support of continuous improvement and forecast quality.

Education and experience:

  • Bachelors Degree in Engineering Supply Chain Statistics or related discipline
  • At least 2-5 yrs. experience in Demand planning forecasting supply planning Experience. Experience with a CPG company a plus
  • Excellent analytical statistical and organizational skills. Must be detailed oriented and highly organized.
  • Able to think through and analyze large amount of data models and results
  • High proficiency in tools used for data analysis such as Excel
  • Ability to lead and influence other in reaching a consensus forecast.
  • Experience with facilitation of Forecast Consensus discussions.
  • Effective communication skills (both oral and written) with the ability to interact with multiple departments and all levels of the organization

About McCain.
Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide you with opportunities to make an impact that matters.

Leadership Principles.
Our principles each with related practices guide our actions across the organization. Together they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success. While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles.

We are customer obsessed. Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights we drive mutual success.
We think big and plan ahead. Through ambition curiosity and smart risks we can accomplish goals refine processes and innovate to scale success.
We bring out the best in our people. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first showing humility and working together.
We act like owners. Together we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain.

The McCain experience.
We are McCain: this statement is about our power collectively and our importance individuallyyour impact is a significant part of the business. Our winning culture focuses on authenticity and trust so we can always bring out the best in our people. Here you have the opportunity to learn grow and thrive while being yourself. Join our team to see why were better together.

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Compensation Package:$58800.00-$78500.00CAD annually bonus eligibility

The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience skill set education/training and other organizational needs.

Benefits: At McCainwere on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and wellbeing at the heart of what we do every day. We understand and appreciate that each persons needs are unique and ensure our benefits & wellbeing programs reflect that. Employeesare eligible for the following benefits:health coverage (medical dental vision prescription drug) retirement savings benefits and leave support including medical family and bereavement. Wellbeing programs include vacationandholidays company-supported volunteering time and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned to country provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level location and nature of the benefit details available during the application process.

Your well-being matters to us and were here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work and at home.

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity resilience and success and makes our business qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race religion color national origin sex age veteran status disability or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms) please let us knowand we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.

Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCains Global Privacy Policyand Global Employee Privacy Policy as applicable. You can understand how your personal information isbeing handled here.

Job Family:Supply Chain & Logistics
Division:NA Supply Chain
Department:Demand Planning Appetizers
Location(s): CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Company:McCain Foods (Canada)

Employment Type

Full Time

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