Demand Planning Business Partner

October 23, 2024

Hasbro Inc.

Sydney

At Hasbro, our mission is to entertain and connect generations of fans through the wonder of storytelling and exhilaration of play. We’re looking for adventurous and curious people who want to explore, experiment, and innovate to come up with the best ideas. Our culture has inspired our diverse team of highly skilled, highly creative, and highly committed individuals for 100 years and we believe the best is yet to come.

As a Demand Planning Business Partner, you will work on delivering accurate and timely demand forecasts to input to the IBP Demand Review process enabling commercial teams & Global supply chain operations to maximise Hasbro’s profit & customer satisfaction.

While primarily responsible for the Demand Plan, there is a need to balance all aspects of the Supply Chain, partnering with key stakeholders locally and globally to stabilise the unconstrained plan, and escalate through the S&OE process to minimise Shortages, whilst achieving high Demand Forecast Accuracy results. In addition, this role is responsible for adherence to the planning process and will be the key point of contact for commercial stakeholders for Hasbro Pacific.

Responsibilities:

Complete history cleaning activities ensuring all adjustments and assumptions are recorded eg market trends, seasonality, promotions
Maintain all statistical parameters used to drive ‘best fit’ model & generate a baseline for 18-24mths statistical forecast model and product hierarchies
Undertake weekly check on planning data integrity · Own the signal being passed to supply chain, ensuring its accuracy
Analyse all sales vs forecasting exceptions utilising Logility/Power BI/SAP and make ongoing forecasting corrections
Analyse market trends, seasonality, promotions to add value to the baseline statistical forecast
Review POS trends to understand customer sell out & stock levels at retail, along with stock in transit data & build insights into the forecast where appropriate
Facilitate local Management demand review (pre and post Demand Review) and approval of forecast before end of Demand Planning cycle
Analyse and report risk and opportunities included in the transmitted forecast
Responsible for managing any market intelligence to the baseline volume driven by new product introductions, promotions, price increases and any other commercial activity that may affect demand based on analytical assumptions
Ensure local brand forecasts aligned with regional brand strategy in cooperation with reg. DP category lead
Contribute to product rationalization and portfolio optimization
Provide commercial partners with clear and direct communication on constrained vs. unconstrained Demand Plan, and Phase In/Phase Out management
Ensure compliance with the global forecasting calendar
Liaise with Market Distribution Planner to proactively communicate demand changes impacting inventory and service
Track the Demand management KPIs (example FC Accuracy / FC Bias), identify the root cause of forecasting error and work with the relevant teams on improvement plans
Collect and pressure-test Sales and Market Intelligence for input into forecast, providing fact-based assumption on historic shipments/POS.

Qualifications And Skills:

Highly skilled in Demand Planning Management (5 years+)
APICs or IBF certification desirable
Secondary/Tertiary level mathematical or statistical qualification
Experience in working with Business / Sales teams with ability to influence and coach
Comfortable working with large data-sets and high SKU counts, with up to 60% NPI annually
Proficient with Visual data presentation, Power BI, Power Point
Has worked in international matrix environment
Advanced Excel skills
Excellent influencing, stakeholder engagement and interpersonal skills
Business partnering at the core with the ability to challenge senior stakeholders and hold tension in S&OP conversations to drive the right outcome for Hasbro
Exceptional communication skills, verbal, written, and presentation
Strong mathematical, statistical and analytical skills
Solid understanding of E2E supply Chain operational processes, eg. Supply planning, logistics, product development cycles, POS replenishment
Proficient in a statistical Demand Planning software · Performance management: the role holder will understand the importance of KPI’s in driving performance, know how to track their targets and correct as appropriate
Continuous improvement – the role holder will be expected to be flexible and embrace change, continually looking for ways to improve everything they do. They will use various continuous improvement tools and techniques to solve problems
Thinks and operates in a global context
Good understanding of product, brand building, internal process and market / customer environment
Strong decision making using data and following through to completion
Analyses and uses data to achieve company goals, drives execution, initiates action and follows up
Flexible, self-starter with a high degree of independence
Excellent ability to work and communicate in multi-functional teams with multiple stakeholders

Hasbro is committed to equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment. We are committed to making all employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, or any other legally protected status.

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