Demand Planning Manager

We Create Products and Brands That People Trust to Clean, Sanitize, and Protect Their Homes, Pools, and Cars.

When you join KIK Consumer Products, you’re joining a team that cares about the work we do and also about each other. We bring exceptional brands and products to consumers that help them protect the health and wellness of their families, the cleanliness of their homes and pools, and the life of their automobiles. We are committed to building a culture of performance driven by accountability, empowerment, collaboration, and agility that enables timely fact-based decision-making and exceptional execution with unwavering ethics. As one of North America’s largest independent manufacturers of consumer products, KIK helps a large portfolio of brands and retailers bring their products to life.

Your Role at KIK

The Demand Planning Manager manages the critical S&OP link between the sales forecast, the production signal, and the actual customer orders. This high-visibility role requires strong analytical skills, cross-functional leadership ability, and a personal drive for continuous improvement. The consensus demand plan, the ultimate output of the demand planning team, plays an indispensable part in meeting our customers’ needs.

What You’ll Be Doing

·       Manage the S&OP “Demand Review” process

·       Ability to read trends, identify patterns, estimate the impact of known events, and generate accurate statistical models[ID1] 

·       Collaborate cross functionally on near- and long-term demand management process 

·       Create and manage demand requirements into the Supply Review step of S&OP

·       Provide skill level demand plan for production and distribution locations

·       Drive forecast accuracy and bias performance improvement through a collaborative forecasting process leveraging point of sale data, Sales and Marketing input as well as historical trends

·       Provide dependent (component) demand requirements to assist in supplier management

·       Facilitate life cycle planning management to assist in proper ramp up and run out resulting in optimal service levels and reduced risk of waste

·       Facilitate inventory target setting process

·       Create and maintain inventory strategies by product/location types

·       Responsible for developing and maintaining key demand management performance metrics

·       Report out forecast accuracy vs. target and bias vs. target

·       Maintain planning-related item master data in the ERP

·       Perform detailed reconciliations between systems; identify and correct any gaps is data flows Other Demand Management metrics as required

·       Performs all work in accordance with all established regulatory and compliance and safety requirements.

·       Other duties as assigned

What You’ll Bring

·       Experience managing within a Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) or Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Organization

·       Extensive ERP experience[ID2]  and demand planning software knowledge is required

·       Strong demand planning background in a multi-location network

·       Knowledge of demand planning best practices including statistical baseline and seasonal profile creation

·       Proven track record of driving metric-based organizations and results

·       Superior cross functional communication skills and influencing without authority

·       Continuous Improvement methodology including Root Cause Analysis (RCA) acumen and corrective action mindset

·       CPIM or CSCP Certified or working towards certification preferred

·       Degree in in Supply Chain Management or Business Management preferred

·       Minimum 5 years of integrated supply chain experience from a strategic and tactical perspective

·       Experience leading teams and the ability to motivate towards achieving targets/expectations

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ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

• Understand the demand planning process; from collecting and compiling the Sales data, scrubbing it and identifying errors, loading it, modeling a forecast, passing it to the supply planning team, and evaluating the accuracy
• Handle large data sets
• Troubleshoot and get to a root cause quickly
• Onboard with a new system (i.e. Kinaxis) fast and start to add value
• Anywhere else that you see the demand planning team failing today