Regional Demand Planner

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Supply Chain Planning

Demand Planning

Professional

Irvine, California;
Jacksonville, Florida

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The Regional Demand Planner is responsible for the demand planning process for their regional business, supporting the monthly forecasting cycle and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process with the required collaboration and metrics to develop an accurate monthly consensus forecast. The Demand Planner will maintain close relationships with customer facing functions to understand underlying demand trends and insights around market intelligence. They will drive alignment to the monthly forecast through market demand review and support communication of the demand plan and insights through the Organization.

This individual will serve as a leader in the Americas Planning organization, partnering with business partners to collect, analyze, consolidate, and report data and insights to improve the decision‑making process and drive process maturity and forecast accuracy improvement.

• Ability to develop, coach, and lead strong collaborative teams in the execution, strategies, and realization of departmental and company goals.
• Ability to communicate information and insights clearly, making the complex clear and compelling to all levels of the organization in both written and oral forms.
• Ability to influence Director and VP Levels within the organization (Commercial, Finance, and Supply Chain).
• Demonstrates strong decision‑making ability in a multiple scenario environment.
• Has strong business acumen, understands the business; portfolio, markets, customers, challenges and demands.
• Applies business and financial knowledge to drive decisions and key outcomes.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to handle and manipulate large amounts of data and convert to clear business insights.

• Leads demand planning teams to achieve expected forecast accuracy (MAPE, BIAS) through demand sensing and shaping, considering statistical models and market intelligence (customer events, market events, and lifecycle management) and Forecast Value Add (FVA) performance.
• Supports SKU disaggregation through review and collaboration on SKU proportions.
• Measures, tracks, and reports forecast accuracy and corrective actions to drive improved outputs based on knowledge of forecasting methodologies, statistical modeling, and best practices.

• Partners and plays the role of gatekeeper with marketing/commercial partners to have the most accurate Demand information available as input to the IBP process.
• Consolidate and aggregates demand plan to support transparency of demand signals with key stakeholders including leading market demand handover. Understand key drivers of month‑to‑month changes, significant trends,…