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Demand Planner
Job Description
Pay rate: $55/hr
Title: Demand Planner
Location: Englewood, NJ
Duration: 12 months
The Associate Demand Planning Manager supporting the development of a 12–18 month rolling sales forecast for the Ice Cream portfolio, covering 8 brands and approximately 350 unique SKUs, totaling ***billion in annual net sales. This role acts as the Supply Chain Business Partner across cross-functional teams, supporting the monthly S&OP cycle to build a realistic, input-led forecast and identify risks and opportunities.
A key focus is on communicating volume changes and drivers across the end-to-end supply chain, while leveraging machine learning, implementation of AI agents on demand analytics, and driving simplification and continuous improvement in forecasting processes and tools.
Key Responsibilities
Forecast Development & Management
- Lead creation of a bottoms-up forecast using business insights and machine learning inputs.
- Translate market and promotional insights into demand drivers for auto-forecast modelling.
- Ensure forecast volumes are aligned with financial projections and submitted on time.
S&OP Leadership
- Facilitate Activity and Demand Review discussions with deep market understanding.
- Drive forecast quality improvements through regular performance reviews with Demand Analysts, Brand, and Customer Strategy teams.
- Provide innovation forecasts to project teams and ensure data-driven planning for new products.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
- Partner with Brand, Customer Strategy, and Finance to deliver input-led forecasts across all horizons.
- Ensure coverage of non-forecastable segments, innovations, and local brand-building activities.
Performance Measures
- Forecast Accuracy, Bias, and VVD: Accountable for improving key forecast metrics.
- Waste Reduction: Targeting a 15% year-over-year reduction in business waste losses.
- Forecast Transparency: Ability to fully explain forecast composition (volume & value) and associated risks/opportunities during Activity and Demand Reviews.
After candidates are filtered to come up with a short list, client team will select who will pass to first round. After that round, filter final candidates to pass to a final second round on site.
Hybrid role
Two days on site (Typically Tuesday and Wednesday). Flexible days. On Tuesday, company offers free lunch.
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