Senior Demand Planner [Contract]

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Job Description:

What will you work on?
The Senior Demand Planner is responsible for the forecasting of product demand, leveraging input from internal Retail, Marketing and Analytics teams. This role assumes the responsibility for one of the customer teams as part of the SOP Forecasting Process.

This role is a 12 month fixed-term position.

How will you create impact?

• Initiate and develop strong relationships with cross functional partners to build intimate knowledge of the business and be seen as a trusted advisor to the Retail teams they support.
• Act as a change agent/leader; leveraging relationships, functional skills and understanding process to support SOP to facilitate change and drive sustainable process and business improvements
• Lead / Facilitate Demand Debrief reviews with cross-functional teams to deliver an unbiased and unconstrained view of the demand to feed operational planning and the Global SOP Process
• Responsible to ensure full meeting preparation; presentation of consolidated and accurate information along with well-articulated messaging to support and drive right discussion, decisions and actions; bring forward key decisions / actions to Demand Consensus Reviews
• Identify frame risks, opportunities and any critical business decisions and escalate up through the SOP process to ensure decision making
• Participate and actively contribute to all facets of the SOP / Supply Chain processes meetings. This includes Weekly Forecast Reviews, Integrated Demand Reviews and Monthly Integration
• Analysis of weekly retail sales results [POS] and inventory levels with recommendations on optimizing sales and inventory and impact to customer forecasts.
• Leveraging retailer POS inventory in taking pro-active measures to minimize internal supply chain liabilities
• Track and analyze account plans as it relates to the forecast
• Maintain and leverage Ladder plans to ensure forecasts are in line with POS at Retail
• Evaluate and measure forecast accuracy and bias results against objectives/plan; leverage results with the organization to drive corrective action
• Lead / facilitate forecasting process changes continuous

What are your skills and experience?

• Undergraduate Degree - Business, Supply Chain, Finance (BA, BSc, BComm or related disciplines)
• Consumer products forecasting and/or supply chain operations experience.
• Experience in and/or exposure to SOP processes and procedures, customer planning and/or supply planning
• Proficient in MS Office tools - Advanced Excel Skills; forecasting or supply planning applications; SAP/APO/IBP/BI, MS Project, Business Objects
• 5+ years related experience in Demand Planning/ Planning/ Sales / Finance
• Creative problem solving to business issues and is motivated by seeking process improvement

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The anticipated pay range for candidates who will work in Ontario is $81,500 to $108,600 Per Annum. The offered pay to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to years of experience within the job, years of experience within the required industry, education, etc. Spin Master Inc. is a multi-state employer, and this salary range may not reflect positions that work only in other states.

This job posting is tied to an open vacancy.

What you can expect from us:

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What’s it like to work here?

Spin Master is a fast-paced, hands-on organization that provides many great opportunities for impactful decision-making; though our challenging start-up atmosphere isn’t for everyone, we have a proven record of opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers for our passionate and results driven team.

Everyone is welcome in our sandbox and we are committed to an accessible and inclusive hiring process that provides reasonable accommodation to all applicants.

Spin Master strives to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment processes. Should you require an accommodation, please contact our Talent Acquisition team, by email at [email protected] or by phone at 416 364-6002 and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

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