Job: Demand Planner

Jobing Description

The Demand Planner will determine Master Production Schedules (MPS) for particular categories; manage a steady and predictable pipeline of global product supply available to customers; place and maintain purchase orders to suppliers, monitor works in progress to facilitate on time delivery and provide key historical data to the forecasting team and key inventory data to various customers.

Key job duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

Perform MPS for Burton factories (e.g., PO timeline with products, volumes, schedule)
Create and maintain weekly MPS
Balance needs of various internal customers to optimize MPS
Create and maintain purchase orders to suppliers
Monitor supplier production schedules, advise internal customers of anticipated problems and propose optimal resolution
Ultimately accountable for production schedule and the related communication to the supply chain
Coordinate with vendor management to ensure the vendor is properly informed of changes required on production orders
Maintain an understanding of customer demand for assigned product categories to ensure ultimate alignment with supply
Monitor regional shifts in demand to ensure optimal alignment with product supply

Qualified candidates will have a 4 year business degree and/or relevant experience, strong analytical/decision making/communication skills and be proficient in Microsoft products, with an emphasis on Excel. Candidates with prior supply/demand knowledge preferred.