The Manager, Demand Planning will cover North America Operations, US and Canada with offices in Rockville, MD.  You will be an individual contributor (no direct reports) responsible for the creation, analysis, and communication of an optimal base forecast of the demand plan utilizing SAP APO modeling and key figure structure for US and Canada locations. The position will lead the collaborative S&OP process with key stakeholders for alignment and creation of optimized total forecast to meet business planning needs and to ensure maximum service at lowest cost. The Manager, Demand Planning will play a key role in the budget process in leading the development of the bottoms up baselines with key stakeholders. Will also play a key role in the Innovation and Renovation project process, to ensure project timelines and metrics are met.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, or related field.
• 3-6 years of Demand Planning, Sales and Operations Planning, and/or Project Management
• Knowledge of Advanced Planning Systems - SAP APO
• APICS certification a plus
• PMP certification a plus
• Advanced Planning and/or ERP software experience. SAP APO and/or MAS a plus.
• Experience with Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (SAP ECC or MAS a plus).
• Strong statistical and analytical knowledge.
• Strong experience in Sales and Operations Planning, both process improvement and process leadership.
• Strong ability to prepare and present data to multiple levels in the organization.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, projects and deadlines
  

Responsibilities:

Demand Planning

• Create and maintain a rolling 18 months forecast in SAP APO
• Analyze and clean historical data such as non-repeating events and stock outs
• Optimize system forecast output by maintaining statistical model parameters
• Track and report in APO additional customer-based intelligence, competitive impact, marketing or sales intelligence to enhance baseline forecast
• Maintain both commercial and sample forecasts
• Calculate, analyze, and report key performance indicators
• Maintain APO related master data in the system based on agreed set parameters and business rules
• Work with sales analyst to provide specialized analytical support for Sales, Marketing and Supply Chain on an ad hoc basis
• Provide reporting for the Integrated Business Plan (IBP)process

Sales and Operations Planning Process

• Lead demand planning and activity management monthly meetings within an 18 month’s horizon
• Prepare and lead meetings with key business stakeholders by providing reviews of past planning performance and gap vs forecast – Drive forecast consensus
• Analyze and outline deviations from targets in both volumes and values, identify root cause and implement corrective action plan with the S&OP team including financials
• Develop and lead animation of NPI/Renovation scorecard
• Partner with Associate Manager, Supply planning to drive a successful business unit S&OP process

Activity Management - Innovation and Renovation Process

• Own supply chain project tasks
• Coordinate project between global and local key stakeholders according to project timeline so the demand information are reported in a timely manner in the demand plan
• Ensure streamlined communication between market project team and global key stakeholders
• Understand and communicate cost impact variances to project plan

Projects / Process

• Participate in Category Team meetings for intelligence into S&OP process and to represent supply chain planning for consultation and leadership
• Lead self-audits and reviews of S&OP process for re-engineering opportunities and continuous improvement