Demand Planner
Axelon Services Corporation
East Hanover, NJ
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JOB DETAILS
SALARY
LOCATION
East Hanover, NJ
POSTED
30+ days ago
Location: East Hanover, NJ
Hours: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm | Pay: 65/hr
* 6 Months Contract *
Job Summary:
This is a key role in our Customer Demand Planning team and is crucial in supporting customer + location level forecasting, short term demand + horizon alignment, new item distribution and assortment forecasting, forecast reconciliation and cross functional demand representation.
Job Responsibilities:
- Support customer level Bottoms-Up demand forecasts for key customers (Food Service & E-comm), including regional and location-level oversight to ensure accuracy and alignment.
- Manage near-term executional forecasts (0-13 Weeks) and support alignment to Lag 2 Month and Lag 5 Week forecasts across planning horizon.
- Maintain forecasts for new item launches, customer-specific distribution changes, resets, and assortment updates including timing and volume assumptions.
- Lead reconciliation between Bottoms-Up and Brand / IBP forecasts, monitor sales vs forecast, investigate variances, and track forecast accuracy and bias.
- Represent Customer Demand in S&OE and DMS forums, supporting demand insights, promotion & event forecasting, and root cause analysis tied to service and CFR impacts.
- 5+ Years or related work experience
- Demand & Forecasting Experience
- APO System Functional knowledge preferred
- Strong analytical skills with advanced excel
- Proven ability to analyze forecast accuracy, bias, and error trends
- Ability to identify gaps between plan vs actuals and quantify Root causing
- Relationship & Influence
- Must have comfort in influence without authority
- Analytical & Forecasting Expertise
- Experience in having owned customer-level shipment forecasts in Client, Foodservice or Omni Channel environment
- Strong understanding of demand drivers
- Proven ability to analyze forecast accuracy, bias, and error trends
- Ability to identify gaps between plan vs actuals and quantify Root causing
- Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, variance analysis)
- Preferred experience with APO planning system and Sales Force
- Root Cause & Insight Integration
- Ability to diagnose forecast variance across multiple dimensions
- Customer behavior change, promotional execution gaps, supply / deployment constraints, timing, etc.
- Experience partnering with Sales
- Gather field intelligence
- Translate qualitative inputs into fact based forecast adjustments
- Continuously refine assumptions
- Comfortable documenting and communicating clear what changed, why, so what narratives
- Ability to diagnose forecast variance across multiple dimensions
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