LG Electronics

Senior Demand Planner (Home Appliance - Home Depot)

LG Electronics • $90K — $110K *
Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632In-Person
Retail & Consumer Goods
5 - 7 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in supply chain management or relevant field
  • 5+ years demand planning or relevant experience
  • APICS certification preferred
  • Understanding of collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment (CPFR)
  • Strong written, verbal, and in-person communication skills
  • Excellent relationship-building abilities
  • Strong data analysis skills
  • Solid business acumen

Responsibilities

  • Elevate operational targets through strategic initiative execution
  • Incorporate market intelligence to enhance operational forecasting
  • Participate in weekly calls to review sales forecasts and commitments
  • Facilitate consensus forecasting meetings with sales teams and customers
  • Report necessary information for action plans and align decision-making
  • Proactively gather customer needs and demand changes
  • Develop year-over-year analysis tools for forecast validation
  • Identify process improvement opportunities to optimize network strategy

Benefits

  • No-cost employee premiums for competitive medical, dental, vision, and prescription benefits
  • Immediate vesting of competitive company matching contributions in a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
  • Generous Paid Time Off including holidays and combined sick/vacation time
  • Performance-based Short-Term Incentives based on role
  • Access to confidential mental health resources and personal fitness incentives
  • Family-oriented benefits including paid parental leave and support for families with special challenges
  • Group Rate Life and Disability Insurance
Full Job Description
Summary

Responsible managing CPFR (Collaborative, Planning, Forecasting, Replenishment) activities with key Home Depot account and maintaining forecast models incorporating business intelligence gathered from sales, marketing, finance, retailer replenishment analysts and other sources.

Responsibilities
  • Elevate impact of operational targets (overall sales and profitability) or service standards through execution of strategic initiatives (system visibility/network strategy) and long-term based organization vision
  • Gather and incorporate all source of market intelligence to produce the best possible operational forecast through internal CPFR tools and processes
  • Participate in weekly conference calls with internal/external customers to review sales, forecast, and commitments
  • Facilitate weekly meeting w/ sales teams & customers to generate consensus forecast (sell out/sell in)
  • Report all the necessary information for action plan, contingency plan, and to align on decision making w/ BM, PM, and sales team
  • Gather customer's needs and changes in demand as proactively as possible
  • Develop YOY analysis tool to compare and validate current forecast (based on promo, run rate, market situations, etc.)
  • Participate in meetings to help look for process improvement opportunities and ways to optimize network strategy with customers
  • Share all insights related to demand shift/shaping such as market condition, account specific trends, internal promotion changes, etc.
  • Use sales trend, business intelligence market data, machine learning suggestion, competition information shared by the customer
  • Negotiate with BM/PM teams to acquire allocations under factory constraint situations


Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in supply chain management or relevant field
  • 5+ years demand planning or relevant experience
  • APICS certification preferred
  • Must understand collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment (CPFR) to effectively manage forecast
  • Strong written, verbal, and in-person communication skills required as this position interfaces with customers directly
  • Strong relationship builder
  • Excellent data analysis skills
  • Solid business acumen


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Recruiting Range

$90,000-$110,000 USD

Benefits Offered Full-Time Employees:
  • No-cost employee premiums for you and your eligible dependents for competitive medical, dental, vision and prescription benefits.
  • Auto enrollment with immediate vesting of competitive company matching contributions in a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with several investment options.
  • Generous Paid Time Off program that includes company holidays and a combined bank of paid sick and vacation time.
  • Performance based Short-Term Incentives (varies by role).
  • Access to confidential mental health resources to help you and your loved ones improve your quality of life. Personal fitness goal incentives.
  • Family orientated benefits such as paid parental leave and support for families raising children with learning, social, behavioral challenges, or developmental disabilities.
  • Group Rate Life and Disability Insurance.

Benefits Offered Temporary/Contractors:
  • Eligible for the relevant benefit programs offered through our partner agencies.

About LG Electronics

LG Electronics Inc. is a South Korean multinational electronics company headquartered in Yeouido-dong, Seoul, South Korea. LG Electronics is a part of the LG Corporation, the fourth-largest chaebol in South Korea, and its global sales reached US$55.91 billion in 2014. It comprises four business units: Home Entertainment, Mobile Communications, Home Appliances & Air Solutions and Vehicle Components, with Starion India as its main production vendor for refrigeration and washing machines in the Indian sub-continent. LG Electronics acquired Zenith in 1995 and controls 37.9 percent of LG Display as of 2013. Since 2008, LG Electronics remains the world's fourth-largest LCD television manufacturer. The company has 128 operations worldwide, employing 83,000 people.
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