Role Overview
Tirlán is a world-class food and nutrition co-operative with a diverse portfolio of quality ingredients, leading consumer and agri brands. We nurture a talented team across Ireland, the US, MEA, and China, delivering annual revenues of over €3 billion, and over 2,300 people to manage our network of 11 processing plants and 52 agri branches.
Our purpose is to nourish the world while safeguarding our environment for future generations.
Job Description
The Demand Planning Analyst reports to the Consumer Planning Manager and drives a demand-led culture within Tirlán. The role is responsible for constructing a demand forecast across multiple time horizons (near, mid, and long term) in accordance with the S&OP process. It collaborates with categories to incorporate commercial inputs.
Key Responsibilities:
* Drive a demand-led culture within Tirlán across key stakeholder groups.
* Produce a 13-week rolling demand plan each week, providing weekly analysis to Commercial of the plan versus budget sales and stock targets.
* Collate supply information from Production Planners and distribute to Commercial, Customer Service, and Logistics to inform the fulfilment of demand.
* Produce an 18-month rolling consensus-based demand plan to nominated stakeholders every month, with an appropriate level of detail and timing.
* Collaborate with Categories to consider Commercial inputs into Demand planning and challenge those inputs if needed.
* Liaise with key stakeholders to reconcile business and demand plans within appropriate agreed S&OP time horizons.
* Analyse data to drive insights to inform decision-making across key stakeholder groups.
* Recommend key business decisions based on historical data and trend lines.
* Create automated dashboards and data visualizations to track key business metrics from an internal and external perspective.
* Interpret and understand category demand signals to inform and agree on anticipation of demand.
* Use system-based methodology to generate a base statistical forecast of anticipated future demand.
* Collaborate with various stakeholders in support of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) policies to achieve timely SKU introductions, discontinuations, retirement, etc.
Requirements
* Demand planning/Supply chain operations/Finance experience.
* Complex and dynamic forecasting and planning environments.
* Analysis and problem-solving skills to help manage and integrate data from a wide variety of sources.
* End-to-end planning processes.
* Developing and maintaining dashboards for sales, strategy, operations, etc.
* Integrated S&OP process.
* APICS/IIPMM qualified advantageous.
* Ability to work in a fast-paced and changing environment.
* Analytical skills.
* Detail-oriented.
About Us
Through our expertise in research and development, customer insights, food safety, and state-of-the-art manufacturing, we bring innovative food and nutrition solutions to a global market.
We Offer
* Free parking, including EV charging.
* An on-site gym free to use for employees.
* A parenting room.
* Work/life balance and collaborative work culture.
* Career progression opportunities.