About this role
Demand Planner
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Possible.
Who are we?
Mondelēz New Zealand has been distributing delicious snacks in Aotearoa for Kiwis to enjoy for more than 100 years. Our team are the proud custodians of our iconic brands, including Cadbury, Pascall, Toblerone, The Natural Confectionery Company, Sour Patch, Philadelphia, OREO, and Olina’s.
The Opportunity
As Demand Planner, you will develop the 0-24-month IBP forecast by brand, promotional group and ultimately at a stock keeping unit (SKU) level. You will coordinate, challenge and influence building blocks with input from sales, marketing and other key stakeholders. In addition, you will review the disaggregated short-term demand plan, which includes sufficiency in deployment at SKU/location and weekly pacing.
With energy and drive, you will provide the finalized detailed demand plan by SKU to supply planners and adjust it based on feedback from supply planners or commercial team, who you will work closely with and provide coaching and training to as needed.
How you will contribute
You will:
- Contribute to the demand management cycle of the integrated business planning (IBP) process for your categories and to strategy discussions
- Liaise with the commercial and operational teams and develop ways to continuously improve communication between the functions to support the delivery of the business KPIs
- Manage forecast compilation process, which includes owning the short-term weekly plan and the long-term forecast ensuring stock sufficiency with lead times.
- Perform root-cause analysis for continuous plan improvement for key service issues, forecast error and bias, and share output with appropriate leadership
- Future state, cooperation with modelling team to generate statistical forecasting
What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:
- Experience in a fast-moving consumer goods or consumer packaged goods environment, preferably in food or other fast moving, dynamic industry where shelf life is a constraint
- Experience within an IBP/S&OP environment
- Able to influence cross-functional teams, high attention to detail and ability to work out priorities and improving the plan
- Excellent problem-solving skills, analytical skills – and able to understand and interpret data
- Agile and curious mindset, with the ability to navigate system upgrades and new processes
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Team player who can work with many other functions daily
More about this role
What you need to know about this position:
In this impactful role, your work will directly contribute to the growth and success of our brands, making a real difference in the market. You will collaborate with talented and motivated colleagues dedicated to achieving excellence, while enjoying the flexibility of remote work and being part of a connected and supportive team.
Why Mondelez?
At Mondelēz NZ our people are at the heart of everything we do. We’re incredibly proud of our team – together we’re ver