The Demand Planning Manager plays a lead role in creating, reviewing, and publishing product demand forecasts for short, medium, and long-term horizons. The role requires collaboration with Marketing and Finance to create a total business demand plan, measure forecast accuracy, and create insights to drive continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Drive the creation of short, medium, and long-term demand baseline forecast at menu board item level
- Coordinate the creation of a promotional forecast at menu board item level
- Work with Marketing and Finance to combine, refine and publish total business demand plan
- Measure forecast accuracy at granular and total category levels
- Create insights from business forecast analysis to drive continuous improvement
- Support Supply Planning with Management short dated stock
- Work with Marketing and Finance departments on impact of mix changes on business profitability and supply planning
- Assists in developing the Annual Operating Plan (AOP)
- Manage NPD introduction demand plans to deliver key KPI’s
- Drive service levels with incremental improvements by working closely with the supply planning and 3PL teams
- Collaboration and information sharing across functions and stakeholders
- Incorporate market intelligence into demand plans
- Coordinate cross-functional work into Demand levers
- Coordinates cross functional resolution of day-to-day issues related to supply and demand discrepancies
- Performs root cause analysis on key forecast deviations
- Supports Business, Marketing, Supply Planning and production strategies and identify opportunities to meet market needs
- Lead the integration of demand plans into KFC business through joint business planning
- In collaboration with Supply Planning and Category Teams, ensure the right stock is in the right place at the right time to deliver customer requirements regionally and at DC level
- Balances a complex set of variables to ensure reduction overall forecast error
- Forecast analysis and improvement
- Analyze business: identify and manage trends. Formulate action plans.
- Review historical trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop statistical models, and evaluate forecast results
- Collaborates with Supply Planning Managers in planning for new items and items to be transitioned or discontinued.
- Generates KPI’s that will monitor demand expectations and take corrective action
- Work with Supply Planner to review and assess risks to supply and demand variability and identify opportunities to manage and mitigate risk.
- Continuously evolve Demand Planning strategy and roadmap to stay abreast of industry standards and best practices.
- Development and execution of a Demand Planning strategy to fully integrate and leverage the scale of various Yum! brands to deliver a competitive advantage.
- Development of Demand and Supply Chain Digitization strategy to enable end to end automation of Planning process to ultimately drive efficiencies with the SC function.
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
- Visa Sponsorship
- Four Day Work Week
- Generous Parental Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Relocation Assistance
