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The role collaborates closely with Sales, Customer Service, Finance, Marketing,\nSupply Planning, and Business Units to align commercial expectations with operational capabilities and financial objectives.\nThe Demand Planner facilitates demand reviews, drives forecast accuracy improvements, identifies risks and opportunities,\nand ensures alignment between customer demand, capacity constraints, and business priorities. This position plays a critical\nrole in supporting strategic decision-making by translating market intelligence, customer insights, and statistical forecasting\ninto actionable demand plans that optimize service, inventory, and overall supply chain performance.\nDUTIES AND TASKS\n(To be performed in full alignment with CANPACK Core Values: Respect, Safety, Teamwork, Integrity, Quality, and Innovation)\n1. Demand Planning & Forecasting\n· Develop, maintain, and continuously improve CPUS demand forecasts across customers, product categories, and markets.\n· Lead the monthly Demand Review process as part of the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) / S&OP cycle.\n· Consolidate commercial inputs, market intelligence, customer insights, promotional plans, innovation activities, and historical\ndemand patterns into a consensus forecast.\n· Monitor forecast performance through key metrics including MAPE, Bias, Attainment, and Forecast Value Add (FVA).\n· Analyze deviations from plan and implement corrective actions to improve forecasting performance.\n2. Cross-Functional Alignment\n· Partner with Sales, Customer Service, Marketing, Finance, Supply Planning, and Operations to ensure alignment between demand,\nsupply, and financial plans.\n· Facilitate discussions regarding demand assumptions, risks, opportunities, and mitigation plans.\n· Support executive decision-making by providing data-driven scenario analyses and recommendations.\n· Ensure timely communication of significant demand changes impacting capacity, inventory, and customer service.\n3. S&OP / IBP Process Management\n· Coordinate CPUS demand planning activities within the S&OP and IBP frameworks.\n· Prepare and present demand planning results, risks, opportunities, assumptions, and recommended actions during Demand\nReview and Supply Review meetings.\n· Drive adherence to planning calendar, governance standards, and demand planning processes.\n· Support continuous enhancement of planning maturity, analytics, and decision-making capabilities.\n4. Analytics & Business Insights\n· Analyze large volumes of data to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and demand drivers.\n· Develop predictive and diagnostic analyses to improve forecast quality and business understanding.\n· Evaluate customer demand behavior, inventory implications, and service-level impacts.\n· Provide meaningful business insights and recommendations to support strategic and operational objectives.\n5. Systems & Process Improvement\n· Act as a key user and subject matter expert for SAP IBP, reporting tools, and planning systems.\n· Support implementation and enhancement of planning tools, dashboards, and reporting capabilities.\n· Identify opportunities to standardize, simplify, and improve demand planning processes.\n· Participate in cross-functional projects supporting supply chain transformation and digitalization initiatives.\n6. Risk & Opportunity Management\n· Identify and quantify forecast risks and opportunities.\n· Develop mitigation plans with commercial and supply chain stakeholders.\n· Support scenario planning and sensitivity analysis to enable proactive decision-making.\n· Incorporate supply constraints and business priorities into the final consensus demand plan.\nREQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS\nIndicate the minimum recruitment specification, the ideal person specification, the preferred minimum qualifications and skills required for full satisfactory job\nperformance and to meet expectations\nQualifications and Education\nInclude any specialized education and qualifications needed to be able to do\nthe job. Work Experience Clarify the minimum years of total work experience and other relevant work experience required to be able to perform the job\nBachelor’s degree of Supply Chain, Industrial\nEngineering, Business Administration or equivalent\nundergraduate degree, with related work experience\nYears of experience: From 2-5 Years\nManagement experience: Not applicable\nSkills\nKnowledge\n· Strong understanding of commercial, operational, and\nsupply chain business processes.\n· Advanced analytical and problem-solving capabilities.\n· Strong business acumen with the ability to translate data\ninto actionable recommendations.\n· Ability to manage large datasets and perform diagnostic,\npredictive, and prescriptive analytics.\n· Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills\nacross all organizational levels.\n· Strong presentation, communication, and facilitation skills.\n· Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional and matrix\norganization.\n· Strong project management and organizational skills.\n· Ability to manage multiple priorities and perform effectively\nin a fast-paced environment.\n· Continuous improvement mindset with a focus on\ndelivering measurable business value.\n· Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills.\n· Ability to drive change and challenge existing assumptions\nconstructively.\n· Deep knowledge of Demand Planning, S&OP, and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) processes. · Understanding of Supply Planning, Inventory Management, Capacity Planning, and Customer Service processes. · Knowledge of Supply Chain Performance Metrics including MAPE, Attainment, Bias, Forecast Value Add (FVA), Service Levels, Inventory Turns, and OTIF. · Understanding of financial planning and its integration with operational planning processes. · Knowledge of forecasting methodologies, statistical models, and demand sensing techniques. · Experience with SAP IBP Demand, SAP IBP S&OP, · Advanced Excel, Power BI, PowerPoint, and other Microsoft Office applications. · Understanding of product lifecycle management, innovation planning, and portfolio management processes. · Knowledge of supply chain optimization and inventory management concepts. · Understanding of Continuous Improvement methodologies and business process management principles.\nTraining\n(Optional)\nInclude any specific training (both internal and external) needed to do the job. Language Include the level of required language needed to do the job.\nEnglish\nC2- Proficient\nWORK INDEPENDENCE / SUPERVISION LEVEL\nLimited Supervision\nThe Demand Planner operates with a high degree of autonomy and is expected to independently manage CPUS demand planning\nactivities, forecast development, stakeholder alignment, and execution of the monthly S&OP process. The role receives broad\nstrategic direction from the IBP and Customer Relations Manager while independently determining priorities, methodologies,\nanalyses, and recommendations required to achieve business objectives.\nCOMMUNICATION AND WORKING RELATIONSHIPS\nInclude the communications that are within the position’s holder responsibilities. (e.g., Internally can communicate with all departments, externally can\ncommunicate with suppliers’ service providers, customers, governmental entities)\nThe Demand Planner collaborates extensively across multiple functions and organizational levels throughout CPUS to ensure\nalignment between commercial demand, operational capabilities, and business objectives.\nInternal Relationships.\n· Sales Teams and Commercial Directors to gather market intelligence, customer forecasts, promotional plans, and growth\nopportunities.\n· Customer Service Teams to align customer requirements, demand changes, service expectations, and exception management.\n· Supply Planning and Master Planning Teams to balance demand plans against production capacity, inventory levels, and\nsupply constraints.\n· Operations and Manufacturing Teams to understand capacity limitations, operational risks, and production capabilities.\n· Finance Teams to ensure alignment between demand forecasts, budget targets, financial plans, and business performance\nexpectations.\n· Marketing and Product Management Teams regarding new product launches, portfolio changes, promotional activities, and\ninnovation pipelines.\n· North American and Global Supply Chain Leadership to support strategic planning, scenario evaluation, and business\ndecision-making.\n· Procurement and Logistics Teams to evaluate supply chain risks and demand impacts on the wider value chain.\n· Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, and IT Teams to support planning systems, reporting tools, master data quality, and\ncontinuous improvement initiatives.\nExternal Relationships\n· Customers to validate demand assumptions, promotional activities, seasonal plans, market trends, and forecast changes.\n· External Supply Chain Partners, where applicable, regarding demand-related initiatives and collaborative planning activities.\n· Software and System Providers supporting planning tools, reporting platforms, and process enhancements.\nThe role requires strong interpersonal, presentation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate\neffectively across diverse functions, cultures, and levels of the organization. The Demand Planner is expected to act as a trusted\nbusiness partner, facilitating fact-based discussions and driving alignment in support of company objectives.\nDECISIONS IMPACTED BY THIS POSITION\nThe Demand Planner significantly influences business decisions through the development and maintenance of the CPUS\ndemand plan and associated planning assumptions.\nKey decisions impacted include:\n· CPUS demand forecast and customer demand assumptions.\n· Inventory strategy and inventory target recommendations.\n· Production and supply planning priorities based on expected demand.\n· Capacity utilization and resource allocation decisions.\n· Product launch, innovation, and phase-out planning.\n· Identification and mitigation of forecast risks and business opportunities.\n· Demand constraint management during supply shortages.\n· Service level and customer allocation recommendations.\n· S&OP and Executive S&OP decision-making through scenario analysis and recommendations.\n· Strategic supply chain initiatives focused on service, cost, inventory optimization, and operational efficiency.\n· Planning process improvements, governance standards, and forecasting methodologies.\n· Business contingency planning and demand-related risk management activities.\nThe recommendations and analyses provided by this position directly affect customer service performance, inventory investment,\nproduction efficiency, working capital, and overall business profitability.\nADDITIONAL LOCAL REQUIREMENTS/ITEMS\nCPUS Business Requirements\nSupport demand planning activities across CPUS customer groups and product categories. Understand North American market dynamics, customer buying patterns, seasonality, promotional activities, and macroeconomic trends affecting demand. Incorporate CPUS commercial strategies, market developments, and growth initiatives into demand forecasts. Ensure consistency and standardization of forecasting methodologies while accommodating US business requirements.\nRegulatory and Compliance Requirements\nConsider US regulatory requirements, trade restrictions, import/export regulations, and other market-specific factors that may impact demand planning assumptions. Support planning activities in compliance with company policies, corporate governance standards, and applicable US regulations. 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