Advanced Demand Planner

Job Description

Position Summary

The Advanced Demand Planner will be responsible for working cross functionally with critical strategic Commercial Teams, such as Commercial Growth, Brand Strategy, SET, and Finance to build and maintain a long-term integrated depletion plans using complex data and insights, forecasting techniques, evaluating market intelligence, and using collaborative input from various partners that will feed long term strategic demand planning, annual/long range financial planning and set the baseline for S&OP tactical planning.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible to collaborate with strategic business partners to define, build, and continuously evolve long-term strategic commercial growth plans thru Depletions plans, utilizing complex data inputs and business intelligence.  Specific examples include, but not limited to:

  • Strategic new product pre-launch planning.

  • Scenario creation process and resulting recommendations.

  • Strategic volume projection that connects strategic insights from the S&OP process into the long-range plan (LRP) process. Partnering with the business to build out a regular refresh process for stakeholders including finance and Advance Planning Supply team.

• Partner with Sales and Finance on annual depletions plan creation, while further building out our linkage and partnership between our operational plan and the sales and finance process.

• Develop long term distributor level plans to further connect our overall planning process from end to end. This will include refining and building new ways of working to create linkages between our commercial and operational plans with key distributor insights.

• Conduct various scenario planning in conjunction with the commercial and Advanced Planning Supply teams to identify risks & opportunities to be assessed as part of the Advanced Planning process for critical decision making.

• Execute portfolio management processes through established processes such as New Product Introduction route to market and tail management processes, refining the methodology and decision-making.

• Collaborate with the Advanced Analytics team and/or Data Science to create, test and execute new robust data and analytics capabilities and methodologies that help modernize our Integrated Business Demand Planning capabilities.

• Support the creation and delivery of critical planning based KPIs and cost targets for end-to-end planning (e.g., inefficiency budgeting / projections and obsolescence budgeting.)

• Support future-state planning activities such as segmentation analysis, outlier correction, and driver management

• Completes additional assignments as required by Manager, Advanced Demand Planning

Minimum Qualifications

• B.A./B.S. in Business, Supply Chain (or equivalent), and/or 3-5+ years’ experience in supply chain demand planning or commercial planning

• Proven knowledge and understanding of standard Integrated Business Planning practices, technology and supporting industry principles.

• Strong forecasting ability with experience in predictive modeling

• Understanding of technology enablement and current technology tools (i.e. o9, Blue Yonder, SAP), business intelligence tools & business analytics software

• Must have excellent quantitative and qualitative skills to consolidate and analyze large volumes of data, with the ability to translate information for all areas of the business.

• Advanced experience with ability to translate data thru storytelling into presentation formats such as PowerPoint.

Preferred Qualifications

• CPG Experience (specific to the beverage alcohol industry a plus)

• APICS and/or IBF Certification

• O9 Solutions experience

Knowledge/Skills

• Strong analytical, critical thinking, & problem-solving skills required.

• Results driven; detail oriented with strong analytical capabilities.

• Self-motivated – able to set priorities and implement decisions to meet deadlines.

• Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills to work and communicate effectively cross-functionally to obtain consensus amongst teams.

• Demonstrated ability to influence others, build business partners, to reduce risk by managing exceptions, accelerating results, and generating value.

• Superior communication skills to foster communication/collaboration amongst department.

• Demonstrated results with process discipline and process adherence, and able to identify and take opportunities to develop, further and strengthen a process.

• Efficiently manages tasks and understands need for priority or escalation.

Mindsets & Behaviors

• Passion to challenge the status quo and find new solutions and drive out of the box ideas – loves and embraces change.

• Believes in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust.

• Not afraid to “roll up the sleeves” and seeks to go outside comfort zone to learn.

• Comfortable and experience bringing structure to ambiguity.

• Possesses a spirit of intellectual curiosity, creativity, and innovation.

• Takes responsibility for actions and tasks.

• Maintains integrity and honesty as part of value system.

• Self-directed and possess a sense of urgency.

Physical Requirements/Other

• Two days in the Chicago Office; other days as business needs require

• Must be at least 21 years of age. Must be able to sit and/or stand for long periods of time and work on a computer for extended periods. Lifting may be required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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The salary range for this role is:

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting.  Our compensation is based on cost of labor. For remote locations or positions open to multiple locations, the pay range may reflect several US geographic markets, including the lowest geographic market minimum to the highest geographic market maximum. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, the prevailing minimum wage for the location, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs.  At Constellation Brands, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at the high end of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate. We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), and any other benefits to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or any other form of compensation that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Equal Opportunity

Constellation Brands is committed to a continuing program of equal employment opportunity. All persons have equal employment opportunities with Constellation Brands, regardless of their sex, race, color, age, religion, creed, sexual orientation, national origin or citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), marital status, gender (including gender identity or gender expression), familial status, military or veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related conditions (or any other group or category within the framework of the applicable discrimination laws and regulations).