Demand Planner - Colorado
Archer-Daniels-Midland
- Colorado
- Permanent
- Full-time
This is a full-time, non-exempt position.The key purpose of this role is to develop accurate demand plans and scenarios by improving the statistical forecast baseline, gathering and merging insights from Sales, Marketing, and Finance and facilitating discussions to reach consensus on future demand.Responsibilities:
- Maintains statistical model in the demand planning tool
- Generates statistical forecast, calculates forecast error, bias, and value add and drives action plans to improve forecast accuracy
- Ensures that commercial/sales are providing necessary inputs into the demand plan and approval
- Gathers necessary inputs for the demand review meetings
- Facilitates the demand review meetings
- Reviews monetized financial impact
- Identifies needs for alternative demand scenario based on risks
- Works with Supply Planner to balance supply/demand imbalances
- Bachelor's degree along with 5 or more years of experience in demand planning within CPG. Experience in a “made to order” environment is a plus
- APICS or CSCMP certifications a plus
- Statistical analysis
- Demand forecasting techniques
- Familiarity with target markets
- Understanding of the end-to-end S&OP and S&OE process
- Ability to work with large datasets
- Comfortable with facilitating meetings and drive consensus
- Critical thinking skills
- Problem solving skills
- Data modeling
- Ability to effectively communicate complex ideas
- Work to deadlines
- Manage conflict
- Drive completion of action plans through informal influence
- Physical wellness - medical/Rx, dental, vision and on-site wellness center access or gym reimbursement (as applicable).
- Financial wellness - flexible spending accounts, health savings account, 401(k) with matching contributions and cash balance plan, discounted employee stock purchasing program, life insurance, disability, workers' compensation, legal assistance, identity theft protection.
- Mental and social wellness - Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and Colleague Giving Programs (ADM Cares).
- Paid time off including paid holidays.
- Adoption assistance and paid maternity and parental leave.
- Tuition assistance.
- Company-sponsored training and development resources, such as LinkedIn Learning, language training and mentoring programs.