Demand Planning Manager

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Demand Planning Manager 

Your Tasks & Responsibilities

• Improve the Demand Forecast:
  • Own the Demand Planning process and accuracy of the forecast:
    • Increase demand forecasting accuracy by removing forecast bias, utilizing robust analytics, while applying logic from brand, market, and customer trends
    • Review customer/item-level key forecast misses from prior periods, conduct root cause analytics, and enable methods for continuous improvement
    • Deliver forecast accuracy (FCA%), forecast volume error (FVE%), and forecast bias (FCB%) KPI’s to meet annual targets. Leverage internal exception reporting such as Repeating Bias and the Integrated Planning workbook to achieve these results.
    • Manage the aligned demand plan as a result of the monthly Category Demand Review, and ensure a clean translation of the demand plan to the Finance Business Partner and General Manager for use in financial forecasting
    • Manage customer projections for retail inventory builds and seasonal shipment / consumption plans.
  • Be operationally responsible for demand forecast:
    • Create and manage statistical models to predict baseline demand trends for both POS and shipments, and drive model accuracy improvement
    • Create a shipment-based demand forecast at the customer/item and item/dc levels, and clearly communicate changes and key misses to Product Supply for context
    • Validate forecast Risks & Opportunities as managed by Finance, and share with Product Supply to proactively risk-mitigate potential write- off or customer service issues before they occur
    • Drive the aligned Demand Plan to customer/SKU level forecasts through the Sales Leadership Team and Field Sales Force, with assistance from Sales
  • Own the partnerships with key leadership and product supply:
    • Serve as demand forecasting expert for your brand(s), and generate key drivers and insights of demand forecasts within your portfolio at all relevant meetings (e.g. Category Demand Review and Category S&OP meetings)
    • Provide guidance to the category General Managers related to the overall forecast, and any gaps versus financial targets

Who You Are:

1. Bachelor’s degree in business and / or supply chain specialization required.
2. Master’s degree preferred.
3. Minimum of 8 years of forecasting experience in packaged goods/consumer products industry
4. APICS Certification preferred; IBF CPF Certification preferred
5. Strong working knowledge of Demand Planning industry best practices including Predictive Analytics, Lean Forecasting Techniques, Ship v Consumption Modelling, and Demand Sensing
6. A proven track record of being able to influence "up" without reliance on functional authority, leveraging facts and data
7. Competencies in statistical baseline modelling algorithms beyond traditional ARIMA
8.  Experience working in a demand planning system that is able to integrate product, customer, and location hierarchies
9. An understanding of the differences in forecast approaches by top retail companies including Walmart, Target, Club Accounts, eCom, etc.
10. A proven track record of proactively mitigating customer service or product obsolescence risk through partnership with other supply chain functions
11. Strong Excel skills including the following areas: pivot tables / graphs, slicers, regression analysis, database management, and related add-ins including think cell

Bayer offers a wide variety of competitive compensation and benefits programs. If you meet the requirements of this unique opportunity and you have the “Passion to Innovate” and the "Power to Change", we encourage you to apply now. Job Postings will remain open for a minimum of ten business days and are subject to immediate closure thereafter without additional notice. To all recruitment agencies Bayer does not accept unsolicited third-party resumes.

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