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Tirlán, formerly known as Glanbia Ireland, is a world-class food and nutrition co-operative, with a diverse portfolio of quality ingredients, leading consumer and agri brands.
A talented team of over 2,100 people manage Tirlán's network of 11 production facilities and 52 agri retail outlets serving its communities with annual revenues of over €3 billion expected in ****.
Tirlán's state-of-the-art headquarters in Kilkenny city and innovation centre in Ballyragget promote innovation, creativity and collaboration.
Tirlán is committed to sustainability throughout the organisation through its comprehensive Living Proof programme, and the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) contained within it.
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Role Profile
The Demand Planning Analyst reports to the Senior S&OP Planning Manager and drives demand led culture within Tirlán.
The role is responsible for constructing a demand forecast across multiple time horizons (near, mid andlong term) in accordance with the S&OP process.
It collaborates with categories to incorporate commercial inputs.
The role generates the base forecast using statistical based methodology, and shapes it using extrinsic (marketplace based) and intrinsic (sales and marketing) sources of knowledge with a target to define an accurate demand per SKU across multiple time horizons
Key Responsibilities
Drive demand led culture within Tirlán across key stakeholder groups.
Produce 13 week rolling demand plan each week.
Provide 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 fulfilment of demand.
Produce an 18 month rolling consensus based demand plan to nominated stakeholders every month with appropriate level of detail and timing.
Collaborate with Categories to consider Commercial inputs into Demand planning, challenges 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 internal and external perspective.
Interpret and understand the category demand signals to inform and agree anticipation of demand
Use system based methodology to generate a base statistical forecast of anticipated future demand.
Analyse the forecast as appropriate by SKU, material group, horizon, category, channel, geographic region etc.
Collaborate with various stakeholders in support of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) policies to achieve timely SKU introductions, discontinuations, retirement, etc.
Work closely with Production Planning to deliver against consensus based numbers.
Participate in cross functional projects across the business
Experience
Demand planning/Supply chain operations/ Finance
Complex and dynamic forecasting and planning environments
Analysis and problem solving- Help manage and integrate data from a wide variety of sources.
An ability to analyze and use critical thinking skills on a regular basis is key
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 on a fast pace and changing environment
Analytical skills
Detail-oriented
If you are interested in this position, please apply with an up-to-date resume.
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
Tirlán embraces diversity, equal opportunity and inclusion.
We are committed to building diverse teams where different perspectives drive innovation and growth.
We strive to create an inclusive workplace where people can bring their true self to work and achieve their full potential.
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At Tirlán our culture will celebrate individuality, knowing that together we are more.
Tirlán owns leading consumer and agri brands such as Avonmore, Kilmeaden Cheese, Millac, Solmiko, Truly Grass Fed, Premier Milk, Wexford, mymilkman.ie and GAIN Animal Nutrition.
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