Demand Planner Job at Post Consumer Brands
Business Unit Overview:
The company’s portfolio ranges from iconic brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats®, Grape-Nuts® and PEBBLES™ cereals, as well as Peter Pan® peanut butter to the top-selling Malt-O-Meal® brand of value ready-to-eat cereals and more. Our business is growing and that’s where you come in. Our company is a hearty mix of ambitious people who want to make great things happen. Location Description:
Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings Inc., is focused on providing delicious food choices for every taste and budget. As a company committed to high standards of quality and to our values, we are driven by one idea: To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all.
Brand:
It’s an exciting time in pet food! Post Holdings, Inc. recently announced an agreement to buy several pet food brands from The J.M. Smucker Co. The transaction is anticipated to close early in the second calendar quarter of 2023. Upon closing of the acquisition, Post expects to create a new pet food platform within Post Consumer Brands. This role is part of the team of 1,000 employees who will soon join the Post family to focus on and grow these iconic pet brands.
The company’s portfolio ranges from iconic brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats®, Grape-Nuts® and PEBBLES™ cereals, as well as Peter Pan® peanut butter to the top-selling Malt-O-Meal® brand of value ready-to-eat cereals and more. Our business is growing and that’s where you come in. Our company is a hearty mix of ambitious people who want to make great things happen.
Post Consumer Brands corporate headquarters in Lakeville, Minn. is about 20 miles south of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Lakeville has all the benefits of smaller town living with access to everything a large metropolitan area has to offer. Join more than 400 team members collaborating on the two-building campus to help put breakfast on the tables of millions of consumers in North America.
Responsibilities:
In this role, you will be a key partner in successfully creating the overall demand volume plan for several segments of the Pet organization. Your experience & skillset will be utilized in analyzing, assessing, and collaborating with all functional partners in areas such as Sales, Marketing, Customer & Brand Commercialization, Customer Supply Chain and Supply Planning to synthesize the demand plan while surfacing risks as well as opportunities.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Develop and maintain operational forecast by item, customer, and distribution center in the Logility Demand Planning system
- Conduct monthly Demand Planning Review meetings to inform and gain consensus on operational forecast with Marketing, Finance, and Brand Commercialization
- Drive monthly meetings with Sales to collect, determine impact of, and incorporate market intelligence (i.e. competitive activity, retail trends and trade/consumer promotional activity) into the forecast.
- Analyze forecast performance via exception reporting and take appropriate action
- Work with Supply Planning, Customer Logistics, and Sales to review and resolve operational forecast issues and communicate resolution
- Lead the development of operational forecast for Innovation launches at the item, customer, and distribution center level by incorporating input from Marketing, Brand Commercialization, Customer Commercialization, Sales, and Portfolio Commercialization as well as historical data. Monitor and adjust forecasts as necessary
- Actively contribute to Process Improvement Projects and item transitions; identify and resolve potential issues in the planning process
- Seek out opportunities for improvement in existing reporting options or innovative analytical processes to drive improvement across the Demand Planning teams
- Bachelor’s degree is required
- Minimum of 5 years of supply chain experience with emphasis on Demand Planning & experience with enterprise forecasting software
- Excellent analytical and Excel skills with desire to solve problems
- Strong communication and relationship building skills
- Strong organizational skills
- Demonstrated ability to make decisions and recommendations to internal customers
- Self-directed work style
- Ability to prioritize multiple tasks across various functional areas
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