Materials Demand Planner

Job Description

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Materials Demand Planner
As a Materials Demand Planner you will play a crucial role in forecasting materials that have critical impact on Shutterfly's consumer product portfolio. Responsibilities will encompass product mix demand planning, materials forecasting, Bills of Materials (BOM) management and Analytics/Reporting.
We are seeking a detail-oriented and analytical Materials Demand Planner to support our S&OP, Supply Planning and Manufacturing teams with forecasting activities associated with products and materials. The Materials Demand Planner creates and maintains forecast models for Shutterfly products incorporating business intelligence, S&OP top level forecast, capacity planning information and BOM assumptions gathered from S&OP, Marketing, Production and other sources. Forecast modeling and business analytics is the responsibility of this position.
We are looking for someone who: thrives in a fast-paced, results driven environment; is hard working; is a strategic, forward-thinking professional with a strong sense of urgency; and is enthusiastic about helping us achieve our business goals.
Specific responsibilities include, but not limited to:
Demand Planning:

• Develop product mix demand forecasts (operational forecasts) at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizons as part of a demand planning function using S&OP top level forecast as a starting point
• Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop statistical forecast models, and evaluate forecast results
• Coordinate research activities to reconcile significant variances and refine the forecast model to reflect updated sales and marketing assumptions related to promotional activity and product mix trends
• Collaborate with S&OP, Marketing and Merchandising teams to understand demand forecast drivers

• Manage complex Product Bills of Materials (BOMs) for the product categories you own
• Collaborate with Manufacturing and Operations teams to understand capacity plans that impact materials and routing
• Coordinate research activities to reconcile significant variances related to production variables such as: waste assumptions, reprint rates, capacity planning assumptions
• Utilize a collaborative and consensus approach by working cross-functionally to obtain and ensure that current and accurate information is used for demand forecasts
• Communicate materials forecast to Supply Planners and provide input in developing inventory strategies on existing items, new products, and product phase-outs

• Create dashboards to track product mix trends and support business decisions
• Track forecast accuracy at multiple levels of aggregation
• Provide ad-hoc decision support and business analysis

• 3-5 years of experience working in manufacturing, supply chain, finance or demand planning is required
• Bachelors Degree in Finance, Supply Chain, Business, Engineering or business-related degree.
• Experience managing product planning for a mix of existing and new product launches in a fast-paced e-commerce company
• Experience using analytical and business processes and tools for forecasting and supply chain planning
• Demonstrated deep analytical skills
• Demonstrated ability to identify business process issues and opportunities and to implement effective improvements and control plans.
• Experience and comfort using ERP and Business Intelligence tools
• Diverse operations, supply chain planning and demand planning experience
• Demonstrated ability to use influence to obtain business results