Demand and Supply Planner

Develop, maintain, and analyze demand forecasts based on historical data, market trends, and sales input. Manage inventory plans to ensure optimal stock levels and prevent overstock or stockouts. Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and Operations to align demand planning with business objectives. Monitor and report on inventory performance metrics, identifying areas for improvement. Support new product launches by forecasting demand and managing inventory requirements. Participate in regular demand and inventory review meetings, providing actionable insights. Partner with sales account managers, category managers, and finance to drive accurate demand planning. Build bottoms up Sell-Through and Sell-In forecasts utilizing multiple quantitative and qualitative datasets and present cycle over cycle results to business leaders across North America stakeholders. Forecast and track weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly sales performance. Own the actuals vs forecast and goal performance analysis, drive identification of root causes and plan mitigation measures for gaps in performance. Share forecast assumptions and impact of strategic activities to forecast outcomes to broader organization and various stakeholders. Drive implementation of tools and techniques for continuous forecast accuracy improvement by analyzing large datasets, identifying trends, dependencies, correlations, and creating future outlooks based on that. Partner with Category Management to impact production and launch decisions. Present outcomes at reviews with business leaders across North America stakeholders.