Demand Planner - Agri/Pharma

Demand Planner Role with a Top Brand

1. Set up and maintain Logility Demand Planning tool for assigned products and regions Maintain statistical models and key drivers to provide an accurate forecast and ensure data integrity.

2. Responsible for system data entry and integrity of new items, sample items, item changes, pricing, and purging of discontinued items.

3. Ensure data interface through batch jobs accurately reflects source-system data

4. Enter commercial, customer, and operational qualitative and quantitative data into the demand pyramid

5. Review and resolve exceptions

6. Execute demand forecast process and modeling including gathering inputs, consolidating information, data entry, and analysis; document and challenge forecast assumptions based on process input analysis, forecast modeling, and monthly updates.

7. Provide root-cause analysis to problem solve and seek resolution to issues preventing stability in demand.

8. Effectively partner and collaborate with Sales and Marketing teams to develop sales forecasts;

9. evaluate past sales history to recommend modifications to sales forecasts.

10. Assemble and assess statistical, sales, and marketing forecasts with agronomic factors, competitive information, farmer economics, customer trends, and product promotions which deliver a global forecast accuracy of greater than 85%.

11. Participate in and contribute to monthly S&OP meetings to refine demand plans for supply chain inventory and production planning.

12. Enter finalized forecasts into Logility Demand Planning.

13. Review and dissect forecasts, conduct trend analysis, identify opportunities and risks, effectively communicate to supply planners, and recommend appropriate revisions and tactics.

14. Highlight potential supply chain issues based on demand planning variances, and communicate potential inventory and service level impacts in a timely manner.

15. Improve the local demand forecast process by conducting factor-based analysis and providing feedback to individual forecast contributors.

16. Develop and analyze forecasting reports and key performance indicators to continuously improve the quantitative and qualitative insights and forecast models and plans.