DEMAND PLANNING MANAGER

Description

About Trident Seafoods.

Trident Seafoods is North America's largest vertically integrated seafood harvesting and processing company. Trident is a privately held, 100 percent USA\-owned company with global operations in 6 countries and serves customers in almost 60 countries. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington (USA), Trident employs approximately 7,700 people worldwide each year and partners with over 2,700 independent fishermen and crewmembers in Alaska. Trident catches and processes virtually every commercial species of salmon, whitefish, and crab harvested in the North Pacific and Alaska. The global supply chain also encompasses cultured and wild species sourced from an international network of trusted suppliers.

Summary: The Manager of Demand Planning will lead Trident’s Global Demand Planning Process. The role is responsible for developing the company’s consolidated sales forecast associated with all customers and all products across Domestic and International Business.

The Manager of Demand Planning creates and maintains Trident’s consolidated monthly sales forecast for all customers, incorporating downstream data, business intelligence and other forecast information gathered from sales, category, finance, and supply chain. This position leads the monthly Consensus Demand Review meeting with participation from all key counterparts in sales, category, finance, and supply chain. This position also maintains Trident’s scorecard for forecast accuracy and bias and is the key driver for process improvements.

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Serves as the leader and functional owner of the development and refinement of short and long\-term forecast plans.
• Develops demand forecasts (volume and value) at multiple levels of aggregation for a 24\-month time horizon as part of the monthly process.
• Reviews historical sales trends, consumption data, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, refine statistical forecast models, and evaluate forecast results.
• Interacts with sales, category management and finance to understand and align on demand forecast drivers. Coordinates cross\-functional discussions to document and challenge Demand Plan assumptions and refine the forecast.
• Utilizes a collaborative and consensus approach to obtain and align on accurate information to be used for demand forecasts.
• Facilitates and continuously improves on the overall Sales \& Operations Planning (S\&OP) process to align on a monthly unconstrained demand forecast including highlighting risks and opportunities in the locked demand forecast.
• Owns and manages the Demand planning systems and tools.
• Prepares and maintains relevant reports pertaining to demand planning – forecast analysis, accuracy and bias performance reports.
• Lead, mentor and develop a high\-performing team of Demand Planners to support business forecasting for GSC (Global Supply Chain) and USVA (US Value Added).
• Oversee workforce planning, recruitment, and succession planning in the Demand Planning function.
• Regularly works onsite to build strong team connections, collaborate across functions, and solve problems in real time.

The essential functions listed above are not exhaustive. The organization may assign other duties as needed to meet business requirements.

Compensation \& Benefits:

This is a salaried exempt position with an annualized salary range of $120,000 to $140,000\.

Trident Seafoods offers a comprehensive and quality benefits package. Full time employees may be eligible for discretionary/performance\-based incentives, medical, dental and vision insurance plans, optional HRA/HSA, telemedicine, employee assistance and wellness programs, disability programs, basic life and AD\&D, and a 401(k) plan with a company match, paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays each year, and paid parental leave. For full\-time employees, the initial PTO benefit starts at 20 days per year, adjusted commensurate with relevant experience, front loaded on the first of the year, initially prorated quarterly based on hire date. Commuter programs are also available.

More information can be found at https://www.tridentseafoods.com/benefits.

Minimum Requirements

Required Qualifications:

• 8\+ years’ experience and progressive growth in forecasting, planning, budgeting and statistical analysis in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business/Supply Chain/Mathematics or relevant coursework and work experience.
• Demonstrated leadership experience, typically 2 years of prior supervisory or people leadership experience.
• Must enjoy and be proficient in working with numbers, scenario analytics, and mining for insights, and have demonstrated planning, analytical and problem\-solving skills with proven experience using qualitative and quantitative research to guide sound business decisions.

Preferred Education \& Experiences:

• Master’s Degree in Business/Supply Chain/Mathematics or relevant coursework and work experience.
• Hands on experience working in popular Demand Planning tools (ERP and Planning systems (SAP/IBP; Logility; O9, Kinaxis, John Gault, etc.)

Knowledge, Skills \& Abilities (KSA):

• Ability to think strategically and broadly about the business while also fully understanding the details, workflows, systems, and near\-term issues facing the department and cooperative.
• Strong ability to communicate complex and/or controversial topics and concepts to a wide and diverse audience, as well as being confident in high\-profile communications, including presentation skills and group facilitation.
• Ability to develop strong rapport at all levels of the organization to build collaboration and alignment cross\-functionally and influence up to senior leadership.
• Excellent systems skills: MS Excel and PowerPoint
• Statistical and Business Forecasting expertise
• Strong analytical and problem\-solving skills
• Global end\-to\-end supply chain and operations process knowledge

Work Environment:

This is an on\-site position based at the Trident Support Center office in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood, with the option to work remotely on Fridays.

In\-office time takes place in a typical office environment: temperature controlled with adequate lighting and moderate noise. While remote, employees must provide appropriate home office space.