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Learn more about Griffith Foods.The purpose of the role: As part of the Supply Chain team, you will provide in-depth expertise on demand to enable us to deliver seamlessly to our customers.The role is the linchpin that brings together the forecast from our customer base (Sales function) and Procurement to plan timely availability of raw materials, allowing Manufacturing to produce on time and to plan, meeting our OTIF requirements for customers, thereby directly contributing to customer satisfaction.
Based on the Forecast tool (Blue Yonder), you will generate a base forecast and lead demand planning meetings to develop a consensus demand plan.
Being the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for our Demand & Inventory plan, you will analyze historical sales trends.
In the Unit S&OP meeting, you submit this demand plan for sign-off to be used for inventory and production plans.
You will drive continuous improvement in forecast accuracy, increasing the quality of the forecast, optimizing inventory levels, and reducing obsoletes.
In this role, you will also support the analysis, preparation, and optimization of our Supply Chain processes.Responsibilities:Generate a base forecast and lead demand planning meetings with the sales and customer services teams.Increase the quality of the forecast.Work with sales teams and strategic customers to share sales forecasts.Responsible for KPIs such as Forecast Accuracy, Forecast Bias, and Obsoletes linked to forecasts.Manage appropriate stock levels driven by forecast improvements.Provide expertise as the EU demand planning and inventory optimization expert across different Units in the EU.Share in-depth knowledge of tools and processes to improve best practices.Proactively contribute to the development and enhancements of Blue Yonder, continuously looking at how to improve its use for better results and accuracy in data forecasting, being the driving force behind improvement proposals.Support the implementation of EU SC Optimization projects as assigned and drive continuous improvement in Demand and Inventory Planning across the EU SC.Requirements:Master's in Engineering, Supply Chain, or similar.Analytical skills, with a preference for working with numbers.Good communicator, proficient in working with Sales teams.English fluency.#J-18808-Ljbffr