Demand and Supply Planner

Your Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and analyze demand forecasts based on historical data, market trends, and sales input
• Manage inventory plans to ensure optimal stock levels and prevent overstock or stockouts
• Collaborate with the Sales, Marketing, and Operations teams to align demand planning with business objectives
• Monitor and report on inventory performance metrics, identifying areas for improvement
• Support new product launches by forecasting demand and managing inventory requirements
• Participate in regular demand and inventory review meetings, providing actionable insights
• Partner with sales account managers, category managers, and finance to drive accurate demand planning
• Forecast and track weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly sales performance
• Own the actuals vs forecast and goal performance analysis, drive identification of root causes and plan mitigation measures for gaps in performance
• Share forecast assumptions and impact of strategic activities to forecast outcomes to broader organization and various stakeholders
• Drive implementation of tools and techniques for continuous forecast accuracy improvement by analyzing large datasets, identifying trends, dependencies, correlations, and creating future outlooks based on that
• Partner with Category Management to impact production and launch decisions
• Present outcomes at reviews with business leaders across North America stakeholders

What we are looking for