Sr Manager, Demand Planning-Snacks

Since 1869 we've connected people through food they love. We’re proud to be stewards of amazing brands that people trust. Our portfolio includes the iconic Campbell’s brand, as well as Michael Angelo’s, Pace, Pacific Foods, Prego, Rao’s Homemade, Swanson, and V8. In our Snacks division, we have brands like Cape Cod, Goldfish, Kettle Brand, Lance, Late July, Pepperidge Farm, Snack Factory, and Snyder’s of Hanover. 

Here, you will make a difference every day. You will be supported to build a rewarding career with opportunities to grow, innovate and inspire. Make history with us.

Why Campbell’s…

• Benefits begin on day one and include medical, dental, short and long-term disability, AD&D, and life insurance (for individual, families, and domestic partners).
• Employees are eligible for our matching 401(k) plan and can enroll on the first day of employment with immediate vesting.
• Campbell’s offers unlimited sick time along with paid time off and holiday pay.
• If in WHQ – free access to the fitness center. Access to on-site day care (operated by Bright Horizons) and company store.
• Giving back to the communities where our employees work and live is very important to Campbell’s.   Our “Campbell’s Cares” program matches employee donations and/or volunteer activity up to $1,500 annually.
• Campbell’s has a variety of Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to support employees.

How you will make history here...

The Sr. Manager Demand Planning leads a team to ensure that product demand forecasts are created, reviewed, published and refined across multiple hierarchies to deliver high-quality and consistently improving demand projections to ensure the right product, at the right place, at the right time. This is a leadership role within the Snacks Demand Planning team and leads the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process for several categories and drives alignment with Senior cross-functional partners in Sales, Marketing, Finance, Consumer and Customer Insights (CCID), and commercialization to achieve world class forecast accuracy and bias which supports a coordinated service level and inventory strategy with supply planning. The duties include: coaching and developing Planners, working with Marketing, Sales, and Logistics to understand the drivers of demand and forecasting implications of activities, working with the Supply and Procurement teams to support case fill and inventory objectives, as well as, to bring visibility to long term forecasts for capacity, raw material and commodity procurement, and playing a lead role to develop and execute the strategic direction for objectives in improving forecast accuracy and bias.

What you will do...
•    Leads the monthly forecasting process for several categories within the multi-billion Snacks division; aimed at delivering high-quality and consistently improving demand visibility to ensure the right product, at the right place, at the right time. Guides the forecasting performance review process by monitoring and publishing forecast metrics and advising adjustments to statistical models and market intelligence accordingly. Collects market intelligence (new items, customer events, pricing actions, competitive insights, discontinued items) from cross functional participants and leverages judgement and influence to improve forecasts accordingly.
•    Leads the Demand Step of the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process as process owner and by delivering monthly consensus forecasts within the business unit s/he supports, as well as supports the development of the Annual Operating Plan (AOP). Process owner drives governance and compliance with common templates for key stakeholders within the IBP process and continuous improvement of the process for the business unit. Ensures that there is a reasonable and effective plan in place to link all key sources including Marketing, Sales, Supply and Finance stakeholders.
•    Leads, coaches, and develops his/her Demand Planning direct reports. Mentors Demand Planners within Campbell on demand drivers, model tuning and improvement methods, and more broadly towards skill and career development.
•    Coordinates the inter-functional resolution of day-to-day challenges related to demand and supply discrepancies and plays the lead role in ensuring that there is effective "lessons learned” discipline. Ensures that significant unexpected out of stock situations are reviewed and resolved with participation from key functional areas. Ensures that action plans on key day to day exception situations are communicated to appropriate stakeholders.
•    Creates direction by initiating, prioritizing, leading, and implementing process improvement projects to improve forecast accuracy and bias results, aligned with the team Objectives and Vision. Owns, maintains, and enh