Demand Planner

About Lamb Weston

You've probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it! As a leading manufacturer in our industry, we inspire and bring people together with foods they love and trust. Our customer base includes international food service providers, restaurants, and households in over 100 countries around the world.

A highly innovative global corporation with a start-up mindset, we empower every individual to make a genuine difference. You'll gain access to hands- on training to fuel your growth and success, explore opportunities for new solutions, and you'll join a winning team of 10,000+ people all dedicated to raising the bar - together.

If you have a strong drive for results, a desire to help us bring the world together through our fries, and are ready for a fresh challenge, we want to hear from you.

Demand Planner is an integral player of LW's supply chain planning team, responsible for driving excellence in demand planning for multiple product lines across business units with high to medium complexity, including market inputs, statistical forecasting, incorporating commercial intelligence, product lifecycle management, and continuous improvement analysis. LW seeks a professional who can handle large sets of data and collaborate with others to create robust forecasts, enabling effective demand planning and execution throughout the supply chain.

This role will collaborate with the Commercial & Business Units, National Account Managers, Supply Planning, driving business initiatives and transforming SAP IBP working with IT.

This role owns and manages the overall demand signal, maintenance of the demand planning system, building the relationship with the Sales team, and driving continuous improvements supporting the demand planning deliverables in the weekly/monthly processes.

Create and maintain all stages of the demand plan - inception to discontinuity.

Handle sales history for forecast accuracy and promotional demand.

Maintain data relative to demand forecasting including hierarchy, historical data cleansing, demand shaping and model parameters.

Participate in integrated business planning to implement SAP IBP.

Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.

Maintain business performance metrics and participate and drive demand evolution plan through Sales & Operation Execution (S&OE)

Leverage best-in-class process and strategy to ensure the DP team is developing a 18-month consensus forecast by using insights such as promotional plans, distribution lane realignments, shipment history, competitive and marketing plans.

Summarize and report key forecast changes and concise drivers of forecast accuracy performance to Supply Chain Leadership

Conduct root cause analyses of forecast error and identify corrective actions, leading the Demand Planning Team towards KPI targets

Make recommendations to enhance business processes and identify opportunities to improve operational inefficiencies

Work with cross-functional partners on projects such as new product launches, obsolescence, and transitions to evaluate assumptions - new product forecast, pipeline fill, and cannibalization

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Manages the overall demand signal, and maintenance of demand planning systems

Education/

Certifications:

(Required & Preferred)

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, or related field preferred

• 3 years of related experience in demand planning, supply chain, forecasting, or business analytics.
• A fast-paced, multi-tasking expert with strong cross-functional and change management capabilities
• Expert communication skills; ability to coordinate across senior leadership levels and within the organization
• Proven leadership ability (previous consulting experience a plus); drive action, accountability, and influence decision making at any level
• Quantitative and qualitative data analysis, linking root cause to action to forecast accuracy improvement; ability to simplify the complex with a sound understanding of statistical forecasting technique, demand planning, market analytics, and scenario planning
• Persuasive with multiple stakeholders, changing priorities; make sound decisions and work effectively in a team environment
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