Demand Planner

**Company Summary**
Radienz Living Unit Dose is the trusted partner for formulating, designing, developing, and producing exciting products in the dissolving, water-soluble pac format. Our in-house experts have been crafting new products and creating cost-effective production solutions for established brands, retailers, and manufacturers since the invention of the water-soluble pac.

**Background**

The position of demand planner will help develop and improve the demand planning process across accounts, businesses, and production lines at SPS (Soluble Packaging Solutions). This highly collaborative role will solicit inputs from sales, customers and other stakeholders to develop a time-phased, assumption-based demand plan. Both unconstrained and constrained forecasts will be developed to ensure the final plan is aligned with actual production capacity. In addition, this position will need to compare customer-supplied forecasts with actual trends to help validate the position and drive improvements in forecasting accuracy. This role may also help with production scheduling on some lines where a hybrid demand-supply planning role makes sense.

The role will use forecasting accuracy KPIs and exception management to continually improve the demand plan and hit key objectives

The demand planner will present forecasts and key assumptions in the demand review and other forums as part of the Integrated Business Planning process at SPS.

**Responsibilities**
- Manage the inputs, outputs and deliverables associated with the demand planning process.
- Become a cross-functional leader who will obtain inputs from sales, customers, finance, supply planning, manufacturing, and other functions to develop an assumption-based demand plan.
- Develop, achieve, and improve forecasting accuracy KPIs and provide key item exception reporting.
- Develop CPFR (collaborative planning) relationships with key customers to align on events/promotions and demand plans to achieve customer service objectives.
- Use actual shipment/order trends to validate the demand plan.
- Present the demand plan and key assumptions at the demand review and in other parts of the Integrated Business Planning process.
- Create a “one-team” environment with procurement, production and supply planning to improve service and inventory metrics.
- Be available to help with planning production on some lines where a demand-supply planning hybrid role is requested.

**Qualifications**
- BA required. Specific academic background not required.
- Strong collaborative, interpersonal, problem solving, leadership and persuasion skills.
- Background in a private equity or startup environment is helpful.
- Familiarity with JDE or related ERP system preferred.
- Strong Excel and Office skills required. Database skills such as SQL or Access a plus.
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to handle a dynamic and fast-moving environment with recurring deliverables.
- Ability to develop forecast models and an understanding of basic statistics required.

Pay: From $80,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

**Experience**:

- Supply chain analytics: 2 years (preferred)
- Demand planning: 3 years (preferred)

Ability to Relocate:

- Mount Prospect, IL 60056: Relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person