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Demand Planner

An excellent opportunity to work for a leading global manufacturing company in a fast-paced environment.

Your new company

It is a manufacturing company with over 100 years’ experience, and they are the market leaders in their field. They have an opening for a Demand Planner located at their head office in western Sydney.

Your new role

You will ensure demand plans are robust through exceptional stakeholder engagement to support the delivery of their customer commitments to business partners. You will provide process and plan development through robust analysis and insights supporting initiatives.

  • Drive the strategic priorities of the Demand team and communicate and identify and engage key stakeholders to achieve overall business objectives
  • Review marketplace, customer and historical data to provide key insights and analysis at a national level, including modelling and analysis from a bottom-up and top-down level.
  • Provide strong commercial rigour to forecast assumptions, including insights to business partners on market share, brand performance and supply.
  • Review demand forecasts nationally to ensure forecasts accurately reflect sales consensus
  • Drive simplification of systems and processes through continuous improvement initiatives
  • Build on IT solutions to ensure business-critical volume forecasting and reporting are supported


What you'll need to succeed

  • Ability to build strong, constructive relationships across a number of cross-functional stakeholders
  • Ability to work through high levels of ambiguity and complexity
  • Strong action orientation and self-cause mindset to deliver outcomes in tight timeframes.
  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • Highly analytic
  • Ability to manage projects and programs through effective change management
  • Degree qualification in a relevant discipline, including Finance, Operations or Logistics
  • Sound post-graduate experience in a similar capacity, preferably in an FMCG commercial environment
  • Experience in developing and implementing engagement plans
  • Leading and implementing change
  • Delivering system and process continuous improvement initiatives
  • Communicating change to a broad range of stakeholders to align and engage
  • Supported cross-functional project or initiative


What you'll get in return

This is initially a temporary position lasting approximately three months, paying $45ph depending on experience. At the end of the three-month period, there could be an option to extend this temporary role further or for it to transition into a permanent role.

What you need to do now

If you meet the criteria above and can start immediately, please send your resume to Hannah.alexander@hays.com.au or call Hannah Alexander on 02 88601643. You can also apply through the link attached.

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.



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Summary

Job Type
Temporary
Industry
Manufacturing & Production
Location
NSW - Western Sydney
Specialism
Logistics
Ref:
2932432

Talk to a consultant

Talk to Hannah Alexander, the specialist consultant managing this position, located in Parramatta
Suite 501, Level 5, 80 George Street

Telephone: 0288601643

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