Senior Advisor, PP Demand Planning

Description

The Sr. Advisor, PP Demand Planner is responsible for developing accurate demand forecasts, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring supply chain operations meet customer and business needs. This role involves analyzing market trends, historical data, and customer orders to optimize inventory levels and production planning for polypropylene products. The individual would coordinate between the Sales, Operations, Transportation, and feedstock teams to develop an Integrated Business Plan (IBP) that would be used to drive the monthly P&L projections, as well as, the yearly and 5-year P&L forecasts. The Sr. Advisor, PP Demand Planner will report to the Senior Manager, Integrated Business Planning.

Key Activities and Responsibilities

1. Develop, maintain, and improve demand forecasts for polypropylene products using statistical tools, market insights and input from sales teams.
2. Analyze historical sales data, market trends, and customer behavior to identify demand patterns.
3. Work with Heartland Finance Team to submit the yearly sales plan which is used to compile the division’s financial outlook for the year. Each month this will be revised to account for any changes.
4. Work closely with sales, marketing, production, and supply chain teams to align demand plans with functional plans.
5. Work closely with the Operations Production Planner to align production schedules with demand forecasts.
6. Work with the Heartland Logistics Team to keep the railcar count at the various Storage-In-Transit (SIT) at the appropriately levels.
7. Manage and minimize excess or obsolete inventory through proactive planning.
8. Review orders daily to ensure customers are within their targeted levels.
9. Represent the Heartland Commercial Team in various meetings such as the Integrated business planning meeting, daily Shipment Planning & Scheduling Meeting, Comms-Ops Daily Alignment Meeting.
10. Monitor and analyze the various scorecard metrics to ensure we are working toward achieving the metrics, particularly like forecast accuracy, inventory turnover, and service levels.
11. Evaluate risks. Plan and implement contingency plans to mitigate.
12. Help develop the next generation of systems that will allow for better planning and forecasting.

Education, Skills and Experience

This individual must have at 5 – 10 years of experience in commercial activities, preferably in demand and supply planning or S&OP. Experience creating and developing commercial strategies in sales and marketing to drive value creation and deliver strong commercial results. A creative person that can coordinate many projects and tasks amongst a wide array of internal and external people. Proven leadership skills with the ability to interact with all levels and functions within Inter Pipeline’s business. Excellent communication skills and the ability to effectively interact with various cross functional stakeholders. Highly effective organizational skills and attention to detail. Able to travel a minimum of 5 - 10% travel to various industry events and HPC Site. Excellent Microsoft Excel skills and preferably PowerBi as well. Prior experience with demand planning tools like SAP APO, IBP, Aspen, or equivalent. A university degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, or a related field.

Hours

Full time, onsite, Monday-Friday 5 - 10% travel to various industry events and customer visits.

While diversity is a fact, inclusion is the act of recognizing the value of our differences and leveraging them for the betterment of our organization. At Inter Pipeline, we are dedicated to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that values, represents, and supports the communities in which we work. We are committed to maintaining a respectful workplace and we are building a culture that supports the diverse needs of our employees. We welcome applications from all individuals including those who are Indigenous, racialized, of varied abilities and ethnicities, members of gender and sexually diverse communities, as well as with any other dimension of diversity.