**As Senior Demand planner, you will be responsible for generating demand plans, understand demand drivers for proactive collaboration across Sales Forecasting, SRM, Marketing, Supply Planning and Finance.
**:**What are we looking for?
**:- Thorough understanding of demand management, robust analytical skills, strong communication and influencing skills to bring diverse teams to consensus.- Minimum 2 years of Supply Chain or Demand, Sales work experience, with at least 1 of those with a focus on Demand Planning, preferably in the food & beverage or fast-moving consumer goods industries and/or pharmacy- Demonstrated success in driving continuous improvement initiatives in customer service levels and waste reduction- Skilled in relationship management within your team, Supply Chain, Sales, SRM, and most important our customers to drive a continuous improvement mindset across the supply chain and the entire organization.- Strong knowledge of advanced analysis techniques and forecasting models- Proficient in Microsoft Office Excel (vlookup, pivot tables, macros), power point.
Power BI desired.- Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering, Business or similar.
**What will be your key responsibilities?
**:- Coordinate cross-functional research activities to reconcile significant variances and refine the forecast model to reflect updated sales, SRM and category assumptions.- Utilize a collaborative consensus approach by working with sales, category, SRM and finance to obtain and ensure that current and accurate information are used for demand forecasts.- Provide input to the Supply Planning organization in developing inventory strategies on existing items, new product launches and product phase-in/ phase outs.- Closely coordinate and communicate customer action plans with supply planning and deployments.
**What can you expect from Mars?
**:- Work with over 130,000 like-minded and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles.- Join a purpose driven company, where we're striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.