Demand Planning Analyst

Kenny-Whelan & Associates

Kilkenny

Responsibilities  Drive demand led culture within Glanbia Ireland across key stakeholder groups. Produce 13 week rolling demand plan each week. Provide weekly analysis to Commercial of the plan versus budget sales and stock targets. Collate supply information from Production Planners and distribute to Commercial, Customer Service and Logistics to inform fulfilment of demand. Produce an 18 month rolling consensus based demand plan to nominated stakeholders every month with appropriate level of detail and timing. Collaborate with Categories to consider Commercial inputs into Demand planning, challenges those inputs if needed. Liaise with key stakeholders to reconcile business and demand plans within appropriate agreed S&OP time horizons. Create weekly mass balance reports. Analyse data to drive insights to inform decision making across key stakeholder groups. Recommend key business decisions based on historical data and trend lines. Lead weekly promotions meeting within the consumer Category. Work closely with Production Planning to deliver against consensus based numbers. Create automated dashboards and data visualizations to track key business metrics from internal and external perspective. Interpret and understand the category demand signals to inform and agree anticipation of demand. Produce daily risk reports across product categories to highlight short dated product that is at risk of going below SLA, and prioritising accordingly with commercial. Create daily shortage reports. Inventory Management responsibilities. Use system based methodology to generate a base statistical forecast of anticipated future demand. Analyse the forecast as appropriate by SKU, material group, horizon, category, channel, geographic region etc.  Collaborate with various stakeholders in support of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) policies to achieve timely SKU introductions, discontinuations, retirement, etc. Work closely with Production Planning to deliver against consensus based numbers. Participate in cross functional projects across the business. Experience In  Demand planning/Supply chain operations. Complex and dynamic forecasting and planning environments. Analysis and problem solving- Help manage and integrate data from a wide variety of sources. An ability to analyze and use critical thinking skills on a regular basis is key. End to end planning processes. Developing and maintaining dashboards for sales, strategy, operations etc. Integrated S&OP process. Modeling / simulation. Lean or 3M experience – Green belt  APICS/IIPMM qualified advantageous. To apply please send your CV – ecahill@kenny-whelan.ie  .

1110 days ago