Demand Planner

2 Months ago • All levels • Logistics

Job Summary

Job Description

The Demand Planner is responsible for all forecasting activities related to customers and products. This involves creating and maintaining forecasts using data from sales and marketing, utilizing advanced demand planning systems and reporting engines. The role requires collaboration with Sales, Marketing, and Finance teams to obtain consistent forecast inputs, reconcile discrepancies, and ensure accurate forecasting. Key responsibilities include owning the monthly forecast consensus process, analyzing historical data, working with supply planning, tracking forecast error, and participating in demand agreement processes. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical and statistical skills, experience with forecasting applications (SAP, IBPS preferred), and excellent communication skills.
Must have:
  • Proven experience in demand planning
  • Degree in relevant field (Statistics, Math, Supply Chain, Finance)
  • Experience with forecasting applications and SOP processes
  • Strong analytical and statistical skills
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Good to have:
  • Experience with SAP or IBPS
  • Consumer products forecasting experience
  • Supply chain operations experience
  • Project management skills
Perks:
  • Growth and Career Opportunities
  • Flexible Work Hours
  • Comprehensive Benefits
  • Other fun Perks!

Job Details

Please Note: If you are a current Spin Master employee with access to Workday, apply to this job via the Workday application.

Are you a kid at heart looking to build a career with a leading global children's toy, entertainment and digital gaming company?

At Spin Master, our unwavering commitment to open mindedness, integrity and innovation is a great part of what has made us an industry leader. How do we stay ahead of the pack? By hiring the best and brightest minds—and that’s why we want you!

Job Description:

Spin Master is a leading global children's entertainment company, creating exceptional play experiences through it’s three creative centres: Toys, Entertainment and Digital Games. With distribution in over 100 countries, Spin Master is best known for award-winning brands PAW Patrol®, Bakugan®, Kinetic Sand®, Air Hogs®, Hatchimals®, Rubik’s Cube® and GUND®, and is the global toy licensee for other popular properties.

What will you work on?
The Demand Planner is responsible for all forecasting activities associated with customers and products. The Demand Planner creates and maintains forecast and forecast information gathered from sales and marketing. This position is the talent pool for the Demand Planning Manager positions responsible for cross functional consensus Demand Planning (forecasting) processes with Sales and Marketing Demand Planning (100% focus on forecasting and related statistical modelling / data analysis).

How will you create impact?

  • Owns and facilitates monthly SOP forecast consensus process for assigned region resulting in a rolling 18-month demand plans
  • Analyse multiple history streams including POS/consumption data, and inventory change projections as well as utilise advanced demand planning system and reporting engine output to execute the cross-functional consensus process and challenge/negotiate forecasts to ensure accuracy
  • Cross-functional alignment and delivery of initiatives
  • Collaborate with key partners in Sales, Marketing and Finance to obtain consistent forecast inputs
  • Systematically identify and work to reconcile discrepancies and close gaps among inputs on an ongoing basis
  • Work with Supply planning and deployment to transfer/translate consensus forecasts for operational purposes
  • Ensure successful customer promotion execution through effective planning and leverage of key customer event inputs
  • Track monthly forecast error results versus established targets and identify and report on root cause for forecast error below targets. Drive process improvements to improve forecast error
  • Play a key role in the monthly demand agreement process and provides complete inputs for monthly demand agreement process for assigned region
  • Use and maintain the Demand Planning software as the primary forecasting system tool
  • Work across peer group to lead and participate in major process improvement activities
  • Support ongoing improvements in APO DP and other systems.


How will you fit into the team?
The Demand Planner reports to the Senior Manager, Demand Planning.

What are your skills and experience?

  • Proven experience in a similar role
  • Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Supply Chain, Finance or related field
  • Consumer products forecasting and/or supply chain operations experience
  • Experience in and/or exposure to SOP processes and procedures, customer planning and/or supply planning
  • Experience with any forecasting application or supply planning software and/or SAP, IBP
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to convey messages clearly, effectively and confidently
  • Prioritise, multitask and plan accordingly; deliver reports and analysis on time, coming up with contingency plans when necessary
  • Strong analytical skills and statistical knowledge. Understanding of multiple regression models
  • Demonstrated collaboration and leadership skills
  • Strong project management and problem solving skills
  • Strong working knowledge of SAP, Excel and Word
  • Fluent in English, written and spoken

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What you can expect from us:

Our mission is to Make Life More Fun with a vision to push the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and fun.

  • Growth and Career Opportunities
  • Flexible Work Hours
  • Innovation, Collaboration and Fun
  • Comprehensive Benefits
  • Other fun Perks!

What’s it like to work here?

Spin Master is a fast-paced, hands-on organization that provides many great opportunities for impactful decision-making; though our challenging start-up atmosphere isn’t for everyone, we have a proven record of opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers for our passionate and results driven team.

Everyone is welcome in our sandbox and we are committed to an accessible and inclusive hiring process that provides reasonable accommodation to all applicants.

Spin Master strives to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment processes. Should you require an accommodation, please contact our Talent Acquisition team, by email at and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

We do appreciate all interest; however only those selected for interview will be contacted.

Are you a kid at heart looking to build a career with a leading global children's toy, entertainment and digital gaming company?

At Spin Master, our unwavering commitment to open mindedness, integrity and innovation is a great part of what has made us an industry leader. How do we stay ahead of the pack? By hiring the best and brightest minds—and that’s why we want you!

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