Demand Planner

Role description: 

The Demand Planner will create, maintain, and analyze statistical forecasts as well as all activities related to forecasting.  This position is responsible for improving forecast accuracy and bias, optimizing service, and costs, and ensuring inventory levels and administrative efficiency. This position collaborates between commercial and production planning to ensure consensus throughout the whole organization. The Demand Planner provides leadership and credibility as the thought leader on demand scenarios that enable constructive conversations both to the company's commercial leadership team as well as to customers. 

Responsibilities: 

• Support the Integrated Business Planning (IBP), Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), and Sales and Operations Execution (S&OE) process 

• Create monthly statistical baseline demand plan: zero to thirty-six months, periodically to five years 

• Understand changes, insights, and assumptions in the demand plan 

• Perform gap-closing measures in the plan in consideration of volume 

• Engage with the account manager and customer account coordinator in commercial developments 

• Capture key insights and trends from all segments/markets every month 

• Agree on variation from baseline demand plan to maximize forecast accuracy 

• Ensure the demand plan is the best view of future demand at all levels of the business 

• Work with Demand Planning Manager to drive transformation by leveraging technology to be best in class 

• Analyze customer and sales forecast versus baseline statistical forecast and reconcile to one consensus forecast  

• Facilitate forecast reviews and alignment with sales leadership 

• Provide guidance to the Sales Teams on customer collaboration projects 

• Review and update long-term and short-term planning continuous improvement initiatives 

• Hold accountability for short-term planning quality, validity checks, and effectiveness score 

Minimum skills / qualifications:  

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, economics, supply chain management, or a related field 

• Three (3) years of strategic experience in a leading commercial or demand planning role involving deep immersion in customer businesses and supply-side operations (planning, manufacturing, logistics) 

• Demonstrated ability to perform and lead in a cross-functional team environment 

• Effective analytical skills with proven ability to identify and solve problems 

• Knowledge of forecasting approaches, measurement systems, and risk evaluation 

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite 

• Ability to travel up to 20% 

Preferred skills / qualifications:  

• Advanced proficiency with MS Excel (Formulas, Pivots, VLOOKUPS) 

• Prior experience with Integrated Business Planning (IBP) 

• Prior experience with Blue Yonder 

• Knowledge of forecasting processes, forecasting systems, and statistical models and analysis 

Benefits Offered:

• Medical, prescription, dental and vision plans 
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) 
• Life insurance  
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match and an employer retirement contribution 
• Paid holidays, floating days and vacation 
• Short- and Long-Term Disability (STD/LTD) 
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) 
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Professional and personal development opportunities through Employee Resource Groups
• Benefits available from day 1 of employment 
• Flexible and hybrid working hours

Please note the compensation and benefits information above is accurate as of the date of this posting. Ardagh reserves the right to modify this information at any time in accordance with applicable law.

About Ardagh Group
Ardagh Glass Packaging is a global leader in glass packaging solutions, producing packaging for the world’s leading brands. We trace our roots all the way back to the Irish Glass Bottle Company, founded in 1932. Since then, we have grown rapidly to a team of more than 20,000 people with revenues of over $9 billion.
Today, we have a presence across Europe, Africa, and North America.

• Did you know that Ardagh produces many of the cans and bottles you drink your favorite beverages from?
• Did you know we produce metal and glass packaging which are permanent materials, meaning they can be infinitely recycled without any loss of quality?
• Did you know we produce more than 160 million containers per day?

Ardagh is passionate about sustainability and has a reputation for innovation. We push the boundaries of what’s possible, pioneering new production methods, new design techniques and new ways to recycle and save energy. Our aim is to reduce any negative environmental impact while remaining economically sustainable and socially responsible. We believe that the success of our business depends on the success of our people. We strive to create working environments where our employees feel valued, can work to their full potential, and where their achievements are celebrated. Here at Ardagh, we offer exciting and rewarding opportunities for talented and creative people. If you have ambition and want to make an impact with your career, come and join our team, you’ll enjoy the journey!

Ardagh Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other basis prohibited by federal, state, and local law.