Demand Planner
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Job Title: Demand Planner Job Location: Alpharetta, GA Pay Rate: $30.00 / per hour Summary: This position will provide leadership for the process development, tool development, and best practices for demand planning to ensure efforts contribute to the attainment of business objectives. The incumbent is responsible for forecasting market demand for a specified group of products that will allow synchronized production of mill and supplier operations, deployment of stock, reduction of inventories and maximization of customer service. This position will work with Business Planning, Production and Materials Planning, Sales and Marketing, Deployment, Customer Service, International Demand Managers, and Distribution Operations team members and Managers. Responsibilities:
- Generate an accurate 24 month rolling forecast for a specified category of products.
- Deliver on Forecast Accuracy Key performance indicators.
- Challenge, assess, and maintain justifications for increased and decreases in the forecast.
- Collaborate with sales and marketing teams to ensure that there is good business input into the forecast and challenge assumptions through rigorous analysis.
- Provide suggestions to improve the forecasting process and performance of the demand planning system and lead continuous improvement programs that will improve the accuracy of demand forecasts.
- Develop the sales pipeline process leading to proactive identification of new customer demand
- Collaborate with strategic customers on demand planning opportunities, leading to quick identification of demand changes within lead times
- Provide input to the long-range business demand forecasts and to the potential volume opportunities of alternative marketing/sales programs
- Manage Monthly Demand Review process for a particular product group leading to the sign-off of the regional level forecast by the Marketing Director and input to the S&OP global demand review.
- Be the forecasting expert on a given product group and drive improvements in forecast accuracy and error. Educate others on the behavior of the product group.
- Lead the new product launch demand management process and ensure alignment of the plan with marketing and product supply
- Provide information as to the conformance of actual sales to forecasted volume. Identify and track contributing factors to sales forecast errors.
- Lead continuous improvement programs to improve sales forecast accuracy, forecasting processes, and systems.
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