Demand Planner

At Wesco International, we are seeking a highly skilled Demand Planner to join our team. As a Demand Planner, you will play a critical role in analyzing and estimating future product requirements, ensuring the balance of service and working capital, and utilizing Blue Yonder Demand and other legacy systems.

• Develop and maintain accurate demand forecasts at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizons as part of a demand planning function.
• Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare moderate to complex forecast data, develop statistical forecast models, and evaluate forecast results.
• Coordinate cross-functional research activities to reconcile significant variances and refine the forecast model to reflect updated sales and marketing assumptions.
• Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and Customer Finance to obtain and ensure that current and accurate information is used for demand forecast.
• Propose and implement solutions to improve the Demand Forecast Accuracy by interacting with SME's to understand demand forecast drivers.
• Conduct monthly forecast maintenance and ensure effective product lifecycle management, including DFU rationalization, NPI, Product Supersession, and New Customer program set up.
• Use and maintain Demand Planning software as the primary forecasting tool through moderate to complex statistical forecast reviews and management of demand planning exceptions.
• Communicate forecast and inventory estimations to management while monitoring and reporting on important changes in sales forecasts, budgets, and business strategies.
• Prepare and maintain relevant reports pertaining to the demand planning process.

• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Business Administration, Finance, or related field required.
• Licenses/Certificates/Designations - Institute for Supply Management (ISM), Blue Yonder (JDA) or other leading Advanced Planning System (APS), American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) or Supply Chain Professional (CSCP).
• 2 years of experience working within a demand planning function or Merchandising role with relevant training and/or certifications.
• 1 year of experience with Supply Chain Planning applications, Inventory Optimization, and/or Network Design (Blue Yonder, Kinaxis, o9, OMP, Oracle, SAP, or other leading Advanced Planning System).
• Knowledge of Supply Chain processes, such as SIOP - Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning, Forecasting, Demand and Supply Planning, and Materials Management.
• Mathematical and statistical knowledge, able to identify and analyze complex data, evaluate patterns, and techniques to develop conclusions and insights used for decision-making processes.
• Excellent communication and support skills and ability to explain complex concepts and analytics to non-technical audiences and translate user requirements into actionable data.
• Aptitude for working with both quantitative and qualitative data.
• Ability to prioritize and handle many projects at once with ever-shifting priorities and deadlines with the ability to track and manage progress.
• Strong in MS Excel, Access, and/or PowerBI or other Business Intelligence (BI) Tools, e.g. Tableau, or Qlik.
• Experience with Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) systems, particularly related to the Demand Planning processes preferred.
• Ability to travel up to 25%.