Demand Planner / Naperville Job in Naperville 60563, Illinois Us


ConAgra Foods, Inc. is one of North America's leading food companies, with brands in 97 percent of America's households. Consumers find Banquet, Chef Boyardee, Egg Beaters, Healthy Choice, Hebrew National, Hunt's, Marie Callender's, Orville Redenbacher's, PAM, Peter Pan, Reddi-wip, Slim Jim, Snack Pack and many other ConAgra Foods brands in grocery, convenience, mass merchandise and club stores. ConAgra Foods also has a strong business-to-business presence, supplying frozen potato and sweet potato products as well as other vegetable, spice and grain products to a variety of well-known restaurants, foodservice operators and commercial customers. As a Fortune 500 company with more than 24,000 employees across the country and around the world, the opportunities are vast. For more information, please visit us at www.conagrafoodscareers.com .

Generates forecasts at a number of levels for assigned product categories using inputs from all available sources. Drives the monthly forecasting process through interaction and communication with sales, marketing, and finance. Develops and communicates future demand plans that drive supply chain planning processes. Scope: Small, less complex portfolio or equivalent number of brands. Minimum 2 years related experience.

Position Responsibilities

  • Drives the monthly forecast consensus process for brands assigned by engaging the entire cross-functional team resulting in a 90 day detailed and full year consensus demand plan
  • Collaborates with key partners in brand, sales, and finance to obtain consistent forecast inputs and address input gaps that may arise
  • Works with production planning and deployment to translate consensus/financial forecasts into an operational forecast
  • Ensures successful customer promotion execution through effective planning and leveraging of key customer event inputs
  • Engagement in forecasting of new item launches from ideation to production to ensure success
  • Has a basic understanding of all supply chain processes and the downstream effects demand planning has on them
  • Aids in the communication flow of changes to forecast and disseminates information to all stakeholders accordingly
  • Reports on forecast accuracy and does necessary analysis to determine root cause of error in an effort to continuously improve numbers
  • Studies, interprets, and develops thorough understandings of problems and opportunities
  • Tracks performance KPI’s to the established supply chain plan
  • Identifies ways to improve demand planning processes and tools
  • Tracks and reconciles weekly/monthly metrics versus established targets
  • Supports annual planning process for designated brands
  • Presents findings that drive understanding, alignment, and informed decision making
  • Provides leadership and direction for business team on matters regarding supply chain, forecasting, and demand planning
  • Leads by example in supporting the CAG operating principles of simplicity, accountability, and collaboration
  • Engineers tactical and strategic solutions that withstand the variability inherent to the business
  • Participates in process improvement efforts

    Position Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree in logistics, statistics, business or other mathematically related fields.
  • Experience in production/inventory/demand planning environment
  • Experience with any forecasting application software – SAP APO preferred
  • Strong analytical skills and statistical knowledge with thorough attention to detail
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong knowledge of all Microsoft applications

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