Demand Planner Summary

Demand Planner Job Opening in Trenton, New Jersey. A market leader in distribution is currently seeking a Demand Planner in greater Trenton, New Jersey to join its Procurement department. The Trenton, New Jersey company seeks to fill this new job with an experienced procurement professional with a history of working in a retail environment. As a global player in food services, this Trenton company offers competitive compensation and a handsome job benefits package.

Trenton Demand Planner Overview:

The Trenton Demand Planner manages a priority portfolio encompassing profitable inventory, vendors, and textile stock keeping units. This job will partner with peers in the procurement department in Trenton to work toward efficiency goals and objectives set by the company.

Trenton Demand Planner Job Opening

• The Demand Planner will manage all forecasting and demand planning for suppliers and processes within the assign portfolio while utilizing the company’s forecasting formulas. Portfolios generally include between fifty and sixty million dollars worth of inventory and thirty to fifty suppliers.
• Create and issue weekly reports on the current inventory levels and the service levels.
• The Demand Planner must receive and analyze the Inventory Impact Form issued by the territory manager in order to anticipate any modifications to sales trends for new and existing business.
• Prepare and issue reports based on data acquired from the data warehouse and the companies analytic software (Phocas, PeopleSoft, Demand Solutions).
• The Demand Planner will create a summary of items and analyze sales to forecast patterns.
• Collaborate with partners on the planning team to visualize items structure.
• The Demand Planner must perform root cause analyses whenever significant variances occur so that they may be rectified.
• Notify Inventory planners and buyers when forecasts changes in order to mitigate stock overages and shortages.
• The Demand Planner will utilize available applications to chart and improve sales and usage anomalies to avoid forecasting errors.

Demand Planner (Trenton Area) Job Requirements:

• A demonstrated job history with a demand planning system.
• Exceptional written communication and analytical skills in order to craft reports for personal use as well as for colleagues.
• Excellent verbal communication skills so as to explain forecast methodology, the conclusions of an analysis, and any suggestions.
• A team-oriented mindset and a willingness to foster collaboratively.
• Comfortable working in an office environment.
• Some travel outside of Trenton, New Jersey to Washington DC.
• Comfortable working within time constraints.
• Advanced level of computer literacy.
• A minimum of a four-year degree from an accredited college or university.
• A minimum of 12 years of job experience performing demand planning in a retail environment.

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