Back to Job Search Results

Demand Planner (Food) (Closed)

Date Posted: Aug 13, 2019

Job #1564379
Permanent
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Professional

Our client is in hyper-growth mode and has a known brand within the food/nutrition industry. In addition to a recently opened a ~200,000 square foot production facility in the Chicagoland suburbs, they opened a new company headquarters in the West Loop (Chicago). (This position will be based at the company’s headquarters in the West Loop (Chicago, IL 60607) that is accessible via Metra and/or CTA.

The newly created Demand Planner is responsible for creating and maintaining the sales forecasts and demand plan for a category of products. Our ideal candidate will have experience building historical baselines, calculating baseline forecasts, working with the commercial team to establish incremental forecasts that include promotional events. Additionally, the Demand Planner will build assumption-based projections for new product launches or product extensions.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree is required
  • 5+ years of experience statistical forecasting, statistical modeling, demand planning in Food and/or CPG industry
  • Demonstrated experience with statistical forecasting tools such as DemandWorks, Logility, SAS, JDA, Manugistics
  • Previously participated in sales forecast collaboration and Demand Review Meetings.
  • Exceptional computer skills; ERP, Business Intelligence systems or equivalent and Word, Excel, PowerPoint
  • A strong passion for creating process and systems improvement.