Senior Demand Planning Manager

You may know McCormick as a leader in herbs, spices, seasonings, and condiments - and we're only getting started. At McCormick, we're always looking for new people to bring their unique flavor to our team.

McCormick employees - all 14,000 of us across the world - are what makes this company a great place to work.

We are looking to hire an Senior Demand Planning Manager immediately in a Hybrid (50/50) capacity at our Global Headquarters in Hunt Valley, Maryland.

What We Bring To The Table:

The best people deserve the best rewards. In addition to the benefits you'd expect from a global leader (401k, health insurance, paid time off, etc.) we also offer:

• Competitive compensation
• Career growth opportunities
• Flexibility and Support for Diverse Life Stages and Choices

The Demand Planning Senior Manager executes the demand forecasting strategy for the America's region by supporting the business for the US as well as Canada with accountability for annual sales revenue. The position will provide critical leadership to drive cultural and process transformation and robust planning processes. In addition to deep analytical mastery, this role also requires strong collaboration and multifunctional partnerships with functions such as Finance, Marketing, and Sales. This role requires strong communication and influencing skills with the senior levels across the CPD organization. The position runs the monthly Commercial Review/Consensus process within the IBP framework and participates in the Supply review and Financial Reconciliation meetings.

The leader provides key business insights regarding long range volume forecasts for Marketing, tactical and strategic volume outlooks for Sales along with leadership in developing volume projection assumptions, risks and opportunities which must align with financial objectives for the business. Supports the Product Life Cycle organization through supply chain forecasting, error detection and resolution. Providing accurate forecasts, this position enables McCormick to deliver predictable financial results and ensure cost, service and working capital goals are met. Beyond the daily focus, this role will be expected to develop the processes and capabilities to enable future growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Leadership and coaching of team (4-5)
• Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Customer Supply Chain, Finance, Commercialization, Supply Planning, and/or other functions as appropriate to obtain current and accurate information. Thereafter, analyze and triangulate the data from multiple sources including historical trends, statistical and machine learning models, sales assumptions, marketing assumptions, external consumption, customer forecasts, as well as commercialization of new products to ultimately create, validate, and develop the demand plan. Collaboration with Data Science team to drive adoption and translation of AI/ML algorithmic forecasting models. Transformation mindset with continuous improvement and strong influencing capabilities.
• Accountable for leading the monthly Commercial Review portion of the IBP process. Drives partnerships that ensures the commercial review/ consensus includes insights and inputs from General Managers and Senior Leaders of Sales, Marketing, Finance and Supply. Challenges areas where the demand plan is not realistic and leads the review to identify gaps to the business, strategic plans and develops the necessary plans/action to eliminate or narrow those gaps.
• Critical thinking and communication around downstream and cross-functional impacts of material plan changes (long-term). Collaborates with marketing and sales to understand the upside opportunities and downside risks versus the demand plan. Aligns with finance on what opportunities and risk should be included in the financial plan.
• Forecast Value-Add (FVA) analysis and implementation as mid-to-long-term DP Strategy. Develop and execute the demand planning strategy and adjust to meet changing business needs. Maintain close working relationships with McCormick business leadership and commercial units to assess their present and future growth plans, go-to-market plans, customer strategies, and emerging industry trends
• Identify, develop and drive continuous & process improvement initiatives across end-to-end Planning process and Supply Chain-improvements are expected to be breakthrough and applicable across divisions as appropriate, and value creating or cost-reducing to the business
• Leadership role in IBP and S&OE processes (Ownership of CR; Engagement & Support of SR, IR, MBR)

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain, or related field of study. MBA preferred.
• Minimum 8+ years of planning experience with a strong understanding of end-to-end processes.
• Experience in (statistical) forecasting and knowledge Demand Planning system preferred.
• Ability to critically and strategically quantify downstream and cross-functional impacts of demand plan changes.
• SAP, MS-Office tools, ERP packages and other relevant IT systems knowledge with focus on planning and forecasting.
• CPG Experience
• Experience leading and coaching high performing teams.
• Strong collaboration and business partnering skills.
• Strong level of professionalism; often influencing senior leaders within Marketing, Sales, Finance, Supply Planning, and Commercialization, etc.
• Excellent communication & influencing skills.
• Strong presentation skills and high emotional intelligence.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Ability to synthesize complex and disparate data down to key insights and clear and actionable takeaways for leadership.
• Proven problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to manage large and highly esteemed projects, develop and implement process improvement initiatives across cross-functional teams.
• Proficiency with MS Excel, Power Point, Word, ERP (ex: SAP), ECC, APO, IBP and forecasting tools required.

As a general policy, McCormick does not offer employment visa sponsorships upon hire or in the future.

McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Base Salary: $121,900 - $219,410

Base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, experience for this role, and/or internal equity of our current employees as part of any final offer. This position is also eligible to participate in McCormick's Incentive Bonus (MIB) Plan. In addition to a competitive compensation package, permanent employees of McCormick are eligible for our extensive Total Rewards programs that include:

• Comprehensive health plans covering medical, vision, dental, life and disability benefits
• Family-friendly benefits such as paid parental leave, fertility benefits, Employee Assistance Program, and caregiver support
• Retirement and investment programs including 401(k) and profit-sharing plans