Position Title: Demand Planner
Location:
Jiangsu, CN, 215122
Job Category:
Supply Chain
Shift:
Shift 1
Full Time / Part Time:
Full-Time
Job Level:
Individual Contributor
Approximate Travel:
0%
Job Description:
Summary:
This role is responsible for analyzing historical sales data, forecasts, market trends, and customer insights to generate accurate demand plans for the business. This position collaborates with cross-functional teams, including sales, marketing, and supply chain, in managing the aggregation of the demand planning processes across items, product lines, and regions producing a rolling unconstrained and consensus demand plan.
Essential Functions:
- Responsible for supporting the execution of the demand planning process within the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process.
- Utilize a collaborative and consensus approach by working with cross-functional teams to obtain and ensure that current, accurate information, and prudent business intelligence & assumptions are used for demand forecasts which end up in demand plans that represent the business needs.
- Lead respective regional monthly forecast review meetings, reviewing sales forecasts, new programs, as well as risk and opportunities.
- Coordinate cross-functional research activities to reconcile significant variances and refine the forecast model to reflect updated sales and marketing assumptions.
- Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop statistical forecast models, and evaluate forecast results to drive its accuracy improvements.
- Initiate appropriate communications with internal stakeholders regarding forecast changes. Align with cross-functional stakeholders on demand handoff to supply chain planning and operations.
- Understand and communicate customer demand/order-pattern characteristics based on changes in forecast and market trends to help the supply planning and operations team adjust inventory targets and build plan strategies.
- Gather, manipulate, and interpret data to create meaningful and accurate reports.
- Support and maintain a high quality of data and specifics for gap-closing targets for planning parameters—item ABC, customer ABC, forecast model parameters, etc.
- Use and maintain all forecasts within the forecasting system,as well as support and train other users in the process and the tools used for forecasting.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree. May consider equivalent work experience in lieu of a degree.
- 2+ years of demand planning experience.
- Experience data mining and analyzing complex data sets.
- Knowledge of key demand planning concepts, methods and metrics, and forecasting.
Additional Qualification Details:
No additional requirement needed