Specialist, Demand Planning - Toronto, Canada - Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Limited

Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Limited

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

Work Location - Toronto (Hybrid)

Employee Type - Regular Employee FT

About This Opportunity:

In this role, you will be the integration point with the sales and commercial departments.

You will analyze quantitative and qualitative inputs to the forecast, such as trade promotion plans, competitive impacts, new item launches and cannibalization, to develop a monthly consensus demand plan 12-month horizon.

You will also lead the dialogue with customers and products with key counterparts in Sales and Operating Units (OU's).

Responsibilities:

Generate a baseline 12month statistical forecast model using SAP APO system. Determine, document and maintain all statistical parameters used to drive a 'best fit' model
Partner with Sales and OU's to understand the different forecast building blocks.
Partner with Supply Planning team to assure forecasts can be translated into actionable supply chain plans that optimize inventory and maximize customer service.
Report forecast accuracy, determine root causes for inaccurate demand plans, and recommend and execute plans to improve demand plan accuracy.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Math, Finance, Business, or Economics
3+ years in supply chain/demand planning/statistical forecast, or related field.
Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel experience required (pivot tables, data mining, etc.)
Experience working with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems (SAP APO/Oracle Demand Planning/Manugistics) and Business Warehouse (BW) is an asset.
Professional certificate with Association for Supply Chain Management (APICS), Supply Chain Management Association Ontario (SCMA) or Six Sigma/Lean is an asset.
Experience in consumer packaged goods (CPG) environment is an asset

About Us:

Proudly Canadian and Independently Owned, we are Coke Canada Bottling
Coke Canada Bottling is Canada's premier bottling company.

We are an independently owned business encompassing over 5,800 associates, more than 50 sales and distribution centres, and five production facilities nationwide.

We have a 120-year heritage of manufacturing, marketing, selling, and distributing the major branded ready-to-drink products Canadians love.

We pride ourselves on building diverse and sustainable relationships with our customers, consumers, stakeholders, and communities through our shared values:
lead with an entrepreneurial mindset, collaboration, integrity, accountability, quality and safety.

Our brands include:

Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, Coca-Cola Life, Sprite, Fanta, Barq's, NESTEA, POWERADE, Minute Maid, DASANI and vitaminwater; and our partner brands: Canada Dry, Monster Energy, and A&W.

Important:

All offers of employment at Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Limited ("Coke Canada") are conditional upon a successful background clearance obtained through our contracted third-party vendor.

The standard clearance requirements depend on the position and may include some or all of the following:
criminal clearance, employment verification, education verification, and driver's abstract review. In addition, all new employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and provide Coke Canada with proof of vaccination.

Please advise the Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions or concerns in regard to any of the foregoing once you are contacted for further consideration.