QUALIFICATIONS:

• Baccalauréat en mathématiques, en comptabilité, en gestion des opérations ou de la chaîne d’approvisionnement, ou dans un autre domaine lié aux affaires
• 3 à 5 ans d’expérience à effectuer des analyses approfondies dans un poste lié à la planification de la demande ou aux prévisions
• Expérience dans l’industrie des biens de consommation ou de l’agroalimentaire, un atout

Compétences:

• Connaissance des systèmes et processus de prévision statistique
• Solides compétences analytiques
• Compréhension générale des processus de planification des ventes et des opérations, de prévisions de la demande et d’innovation, et de leur incidence sur les autres services
• Excellentes aptitudes à la communication et à la gestion de nombreuses échéances
• Fortes compétences interpersonnelles
• Bilinguisme (français-anglais)
• Connaissance des logiciels d’intelligence d’affaires
• Connaissance de SAP et de Tableau, un atout
• Bonne connaissance de la suite MS Office, essentielle
• Connaissance approfondie d’Excel essentielle
• Compréhension et expérience préalable en gestion de ressources, un atout
• Compréhension des concepts d’amélioration continue et expérience de leur application, un atout
• Capacité à travailler dans un milieu où les activités se déroulent à un rythme rapide, et où la collaboration et le travail d’équipe sont essentiels

SUMMARY:

The Senior Demand Planner takes ownership of the demand planning process for his/her respective portfolio. With the assistance of Marketing and Sales, the Demand Planner prepares the monthly forecast per product/customer for the Made to stock and Made to order items produced by Keurig Dr Pepper. The incumbent will lead the monthly forecast review with sales team as well as participate in the Demand Consensus meeting as part of KDP Canada’s S&OP process. He/She will also provide timely and accurate analysis on various supply chain aspects of the business. The purpose of this role is to provide the most accurate picture permitting to align production and replenishment needs in a way to balance service level, inventory and efficiency requirements. This role also helps provide and enable medium to long term planning around capacity needs and identification of potential operational constraints.
The function must be executed with a view to creating added value for the organization and with a continuous improvement mindset in terms of process and results.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor Degree in mathematics, accounting, operations, supply chain management or in business-related field
• 3-5 years of experience in a demand planning / forecasting position in which extensive analysis were performed
• Experience in the consumer goods industry and/or food business considered an asset

• Responsible to generate and maintain an accurate rolling 104 weeks demand forecast for Partner accounts.
• Maintains the made to stock/made to order forecasts for the Canadian market per product/customer through the statistical forecasting system (Demantra), with the collaboration and input from sales and marketing force to ensure accurate and non-biased projections.
• Leads the development & presentation of complex forecasting plans. This includes new product launches, new partner onboardings and special projects.
• Become Canadian demand planning expert through understanding consumption and shipment trends in addition to customer, brand, category and industry dynamics (Hard Goods, Hot & Cold beverages).
• Identify trends impacting the business and present findings to leadership through KPI reviews, S&OP & executive demand dashboards.
• Manage forecasting assumption documentation and process within demand planning, in order to elaborate demand forecast building blocks.
• Responsible for understanding & presenting root cause analysis and corrective action recommendation, based on results of forecasting metrics, for the entire KDP portfolio of products.
• Actively participates in S&OP meetings, with the goal to inform, facilitate and align to a consensus forecast between Supply Chain and commercial leadership teams.
• Participates in annual budget planning and portfolio rationalization activities.
• Participates in review of operational performance (back orders, overstock, etc.) when required.
• Participate in new employee onboarding, serve as a mentor to others and facilitate the adoption of best practice forecasting methods.
• Oversees product allocation strategies as required, based on supply/market insights.
• Bridges communication to other functions with respect to senior demand planning scope of activities. Key contact for sales and customer service on product availability and/or demand.
• Participates in regular meetings with Commercial and US Demand Planning teams, to synergize reporting & processes.
• Works in tandem with Sr Supply Chain Analysts to drive system or process improvement initiatives and ensure the function has the best tools.
• Maintains strong ties with production planning and replenishment departments to ensure accurate visibility and strong coordination on demand and stock availability.
• Performs special assignments as required by Senior management.