Demand Planner

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As a Demand Planner, your goal will be: Design and deploy strategies, best practices and solutions for Planning & Fulfillment (P&F). Develop Inventory, Resource Management and short-term planning processes within systems. Drive planning activities to improve customer on time delivery, lead time and inventory reduction. Measure, report and drive improvement of demand planning accuracy.

Your responsibilities

• Develop effective forecast models based on industry trends and demand patterns
• Support management with risk assessments and mitigation activities
• Identify key root causes for non-performance and drives improvement initiatives
• Propose and implement solutions to improve/optimize processes
• Identifies opportunities where P&F can contribute value to other functions and look for processes within other functions that can improve the P&F performance
• Successfully communicate forecast and inventory estimations to management
• Monitor and report on important changes in sales forecasts, budgets, and business strategies
• Support IT department in system logic assessment and user demand validation
• Perform standard and ad hoc detailed analyses for P&F metrics (inventory, on-time delivery, lead-time, forecast accuracy)
• Establishes and shares best practices for planning inventory management
• Coaches and trains local units to maximize system utilization

Your background

• Bachelor’s Degree in Operations Management, Industrial Engineering or equivalent
• Experience in using the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, ideally under the AS400 and SAP platforms
• Capability to multitask in a fast-paced environment
• Have a collaborative, solution-oriented attitude and strong communication and analytical skills
• Be bilingual, both spoken and written (French and English)
• French is required. English is also required as this position will service internal and external clients from other provinces.
• Be comfortable learning new systems (Power BI, Data Analytic tools)

Benefits

• Retirement plan
• Healthcare plan
• Accident insurance
• Wellbeing program

More about us

We look forward to receiving your application. If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com. For the 8th year in a row, ABB Canada has been recognized as one of Canada’s top employers by Forbes Magazine. Also named as Canada's Top 100 Employers, Montreal's Top Employers, Canada's Top Employers for Young People, Canada’s Greenest Employers and in 2021 Best Candidate Experience Award (CandE Award), ABB's culture and commitment are to provide a caring workplace where everyone collaborates, feels valued, respected, included and support-ed. Also committed to ensuring that all policies and practices respect the Employment Equity Program, we aim for our workforce to be truly representative of the four designated groups; women, aboriginal people, members of visible minorities, and/or persons with disabilities. ABB will provide reasonable accommodation to the applicant with disabilities and encourage appli-cants to self-identify in the application process. ABB's Military Reservist Policy offers Canada's Reserve Force members the flexibility to undergo military training and activities while maintaining job security, seniority, pay, benefits, and privileges as ABB employees, including up to 15 paid working days per year for training, as well as extended leave for operations both in Canada and abroad, ensuring seamless career integration with our nation's defense forces. #LI-Hybrid