Senior Demand and Inventory Planner

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Meaningful Work From Day One

Maintains item forecasts using statistical modeling and enhances the demand plan with insights from Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Supply Chain. They facilitate monthly IBP consensus forecasting and Step 2 meetings, document assumptions, signal demand for production planning, communicate key changes, and assist in executing the demand plan. They excel in systems and data, forecast modeling, influencing the consensus building process

This is an office hybrid role (4 days a week at the office-Fridays working from home)

What You Can Expect

● Facilitates and actively participates within the monthly Integrated Business Planning (IBP) demand consensus meetings, incorporating input from Sales and Marketing.
● Highlight plan changes, document assumptions and risks/opportunities to plan.
● Prepares and presents Demand Planning key performance indicators during IBP Consensus meetings with commercial regional, Brand and Senior Leadership.
● Participates in cross functional IBP alignment meetings with key business partners and effectively communicates information to help influence the consensus forecast by telling a story with data, trends, and analysis.
● Maintains brand - bottle size projections within the forecasting system, ensures quality of the data loaded in SAP - APO.
● Analyze business processes and work with IT partners developing new tools using existing data visualization technology (Tableau) to enhance forecasting discussions.
● Will measure the forecast reasonableness, monitor the demand history, and analyze forecast accuracy. Communicate with supply managers to translate forecasts into supply network plans for Brown-Forman Beverages Worldwide brands.
● Interpret business drivers that affect forecast / supply chain performance and communicate the impact / risks across the organization.
● Generates ad hoc reports and databases as required by relevant stakeholders in the commercial and supply chain areas.

What You Bring to the Table

●Experience: 5+ years in Supply Chain Demand Planning or related field, or 6-10 years combined education and experience.
●Leadership and interpersonal skills to build effective relationships.
●Ability to influence diverse groups to consensus.
●Quantitative and analytical skills.
●Experience with S&OP/IBP, demand planning, and data visualization tools (SAP, Oracle, Tableau, Excel).
●Knowledge of inventory planning and supply chain improvement.
●Strong communication skills.
●Commitment to continuous improvement.
●Ability to manage multiple projects and adapt to new processes.
●Willingness to travel 10-15%.

Who We Are

We believe great people build great brands. And we know there is Nothing Better in the Market than a career at Brown-Forman. Being a part of Brown-Forman means you will grow both personally and professionally. You will have the opportunity to solve problems, seize opportunities, and generate bold ideas. You will belong to a place where teamwork matters and where you are encouraged to bring your best self to work.

What We Offer

Total Rewards at Brown-Forman is designed to engage our people to ensure sustainable and profitable growth for generations to come. As a premium spirits company, we offer equitable pay structures for individual and company performance alongside a premium employee experience. We offer a range of premium benefits that reflect our company values and meet the needs of our diverse workforce.

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Requisition Type:

Employee

Management Level:

Professional

Global Job Level:

P6

Number of Openings Available:

1