Associée Principal – De Planification de Promotions/ Sr. Associate – Promotions Planning

Associée Principal – De Planification de Promotions/ Sr. Associate – Promotions Planning

Requirements

• Minimum 2+ years’ experience in a similar position.
• Bachelor’s degree or 2+ years’ work experience in supply chain.
• High level of integrity, showing ability to challenge opinions.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Demonstrated leadership and influencing skills.
• Excellent partnering skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to collaborate with various levels of management and employees.
• Perfectly bilingual, both written and spoken.
• Proficiency with ERP systems and replenishment systems an asset.
• Extensive knowledge of MS Office products (Power Point, Excel, Word, Project and Visio).
• Knowledge of forecasting processes, forecasting systems and statistical analysis.

Responsibilities

• Exchanges information with the Buyer-Planner and Procurement Strategy teams as well as the vendors on new product launches and product phase outs to select comparable product proxy for increased forecast accuracy.
• In collaboration with Account Management, customers and vendors, develops joint business plans including promotions to achieve the alignment on a single forecast number (SKU and aggregate).
• Prepares assumption-based projections to help management team understand forecast rationale for vendor and customer negotiations.
• Provides Distribution Center (DC) Operations with projections on DC capacity risks at aggregate levels, supporting on-time deployment of promotional inventory.
• Creates promotional schedule and manages events that impact forecasts.
• Monitors promotional inventory deployment with Account Management and customers, and support pre-promotion, promotion and post-promotion activities (including exit strategies) to address stock-outs, excesses and store exceptions.
• Catalogs past promotions to track their impact and maintain visibility to baseline forecast versus promotional lift.
• Validates and accepts prices changes and updates impacting promotions, including collaboration with Finance on bill-back.
• Analyzes historical data and define key assumptions to generate statistical baseline forecast for all SKUs, categories, customers and location hierarchy levels.
• Captures sales forecast and planned promotional lifts and identify market trends to adjust demand based on SKU selection and pricing, incorporating distinct promotional demand.
• Generates a consensus-based event plan achieved through a structured process across functions (Account Management, Finance, Procurement Strategy, etc.).
• Revises key assumptions and adjust demand plans based on past promotions and events, progressive quantitative analysis and inputs from vendor and customer collaboration.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in retail, wholesale and life sciences (asset).
• Proficiency with ERP systems and replenishment systems (asset).