Demand Planner

CSR Limited is an ASX listed, leading Australian manufacturing business with a rich history. Home to many iconic brands such as Gyprock, Cemintel, Bradford Monier, PGH Bricks, AFS and Hebel, we are recognised for our innovative approach to developing sustainable and high performing building products and systems for the construction market across Australia and New Zealand.

About the opportunity
CSR has embarked on a business-wide strategic transformation with the purpose of building solutions for a better future. This includes executing a new Supply Chain strategy to deliver industry leading capability, customer service and efficiency across CSR.
To deliver on our ambitions, a new Integrated Business Planning (IBP) team is being formed to drive the strategic change and embed leading planning capability (demand, supply and inventory) across the organisation.
As a result, we are looking for experienced Demand Planners to join our team. These roles will work closely with our project team to develop our new processes and ways of working for Demand Planning.

**Key accountabilities include**:

- Coordinate and facilitate pre-demand review meetings and state-based forecast meetings and agree actions
- Coordinate demand plan inputs from state sales, major projects, marketing, NPD and market strategy
- Use a segmented forecast approach across different channels using statistical forecasting and pipeline management
- Analyse and review sales trends on a monthly basis
- Develop consensus forecast in 1-24 months horizon, with input from state teams
- Work with market models to develop forward indicators to provide content for channel forecasts
- Review and sense check market based forecasts to identify anomalies or exceptions
- Reviews customer and product segmentation rules and ABC analysis
- Identify and model impacts of alternative demand scenarios to test business unit demand sensitivities
- Prepare monetised view of agreed aggregate forecast for input to IBP demand review
- Manage demand inputs into IBP cycle and action outputs
- Drive reduction in forecast error and eliminates forecast bias
- Review actual performance to plans to identify abnormal demand. Work with sales managers and major project managers to mitigate customer impacts of demand or supply events.
- Validate demand plans including volume at product family and SKU level and risk and manage adjustments
- Review and manage sales history cleansing to improve baseline forecasting
- Maintain, deploy and monitor demand data maintenance policy and procedures

About You
To be successful in this role, you will be able to demonstrate:

- 3+ years' experience in key facets of supply chain management including customer service, inventory, freight, warehousing, planning, procurement, distribution
- Demonstrated experience in time series demand and replenishment forecasting
- Numerate and systems literate with the ability to manage large amounts of data analysis. Strong statistical skills (standard deviation, normal distribution, average)
- Good planning and organising skills, combined with strong attention to detail
- A team player, able to effectively influence and communicate cross functionally and able to engage at all levels in the organisation
- The ability to meet deadlines and deliver outcomes to a high standard
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Innovative thinking and problem solving
- Analytical thinking and information seeking
- Experience in manufacturing and understanding customer/market buying behaviour / patterns
- Demonstrated experience in Advanced Planning Systems
- Exposure to S&OP / IBP environment

How to apply
This is a great opportunity for experienced Demand Planners who are looking to utilise their expertise to make a significant impact. So, don't miss out We would love to talk to you.