
Manager - Demand Planning
- Brampton, ON
- 108.493-125.026 $ par an
- Permanent
- Temps-plein
Job posting ID: 7671Employment status: Regular full-time
Classification: PTS/MGT/IT B
Salary/Rate of pay: $108,493 - $125,026Application deadline: 2025-09-12
Application requirements:
- Your up-to-date resume.
- We recommend you save a copy of the job posting for reference throughout the recruitment process.
- Using your demand forecasting expertise, develop national demand forecasts for products and allocate the national demand forecasts to each of Canadian Blood Services' regions to be used as inputs into the Integrated Business Planning Process (IBP). Review forecasted plan and identify trends and expectations. Identify and mitigates risks, and escalate any identified issues and recommendations.
- Leverage strong communication and data visualization skills to effectively convey critical insights to stakeholders. Utilize storytelling techniques-both visual and verbal-to transform complex data into clear, compelling narratives through presentations and written reports.
- Leveraging your relationship management skills, liaise with Distribution, Research & Development, Medical Affairs and Corporate Strategy to understand historical data, statistical forecasts and market intelligence. Collaborate with customer facing teams to understand demand projections and assumptions/evidence as required while ensure that all internal Canadian Blood Services' stakeholders are engaged in the identification and resolution of major issues affecting demand planning and operations pertaining to assigned products.
- Drawing on your superior reporting skills, establish and monitor key metrics. Develop new metrics as needed and collaborate with other senior leaders to drive improvements in Canadian Blood Services Planning metrics while ensuring that issues which could impact demand are documented, shared and accounted for as needed.
- Using your technical skills, model complex business problems and discover business insights through the use of statistical, algorithmic, mining, and visualization techniques.
- A university degree in a related field. Masters or PhD education in economics, engineering, mathematics, statistics, computer science or related field with requisite complementary business and management experience would be a strong asset.
- Must possess a combination of business focus, communication and presentation skills, strong analytical and problem-solving skills and programming knowledge.
- Advanced knowledge and practical experience with database management, statistical programming, and analysis with demonstrated proficiency in statistics, forecasting and forecasting methods with an understanding of their financial and operational impacts.
- Advanced skill with development and presentation of streamlined data visualizations expressing complex technical analysis in a user-friendly manner (example Power BI).
- Strong data analytics including statistical modeling skills.
- SAP IBP experience highly preferred.
- Related, progressive experience at a senior level in a supply chain organization(5 years).
- Related hands-on experience with statistics, forecasting and forecasting methods (3-5 years).
- Knowledge of operational models and operational efficiency improvement methodologies.
- 4 weeks' vacation.
- Annual performance award up to 10%.
- Comprehensive group health, dental and vision benefits for you and your family.
- Defined benefit pension plan.
- Employee discounts, wellness program, professional resources.
- This role will work in a hybrid environment with requirements to be onsite at Canadian Blood Services location at least 40% of the time/2 days of the week.
- You may be required to travel 1-2 times a year to attend dept. meeting(s).