Milwaukee Tools is an industry leader in the manufacture of cordless & electric power tools, accessories, and hand tools. We pride ourselves on an unrelenting strategic focus on powerful brands, innovative products and exceptional people.
Our culture is centred around improving the lives of our users, something that not only drives our product development but underpins everything we do.
We are committed to ensuring our people have a great experience at Milwaukee, so in addition to an exciting and challenging role we also provide a range of great employee benefits including:
Lifestyle: Hybrid working model to support flexibility.
Discounts & Perks: Generous discounts on company products.
Personal Development: Access to professional development programs.
Health & Wellbeing: Paid Parental Leave and Employee Assistance Program.
Social: Recognition programs and social events to celebrate our team's achievements
About The Opportunity
Due to continued growth and expansion we have an exciting opportunity for a Demand Planner, ANZ to support our Milwaukee customer and business plans. The main focus of this role is to build a fit for purpose demand plan that ensures gaps, risk and opportunities across the demand planning portfolio are understood and managed across the stakeholder base.
About the Role
Reporting directly to the Demand Planning Supervisor you will be based at our brand-new offices situated in Notting Hill in a hybrid-based role.
Your day to day will include:
- Manage demand inputs from different sources
- Manage system health for statistical forecast generation
- Gather account intelligence via collaboration with Business Unit Account managers, Sales and Finance
- Provide accurate product lifecycle input regarding new products, transitions and deletions
- Question the assumptions and rationale behind the forecast to have a solid understanding of the increase or decrease
- Contribute to business growth and strategy by identifying areas of improvement and recommending process and forecasting solutions
- Manage the Risks and Opportunities to the plan - escalating any relevant risks
- Coordinate the Handover process between S&OP and S&OE
- Facilitate the portfolio management process, providing key outputs and insights for decision making.
- Generate KPI reports as requested in regard to purchasing and inventory, feeding into the S&OP process
- Coordinate the budget volume build by Business Unit
About You
You will have a proven track record in a similar Demand Planning role within a fast-paced, supply chain environment with a flexible and adaptable approach to change. You are ready for a new challenge and have the following skills and attributes.
- Strong analytical skills and well organised
- Critical thinker who shows initiative
- Experience in External and Internal collaboration and good influencing skills
- Demonstrated delivery of CI to improve demand outcomes
- Strong project management skills and ability to engage multiple stakeholder groups
- Advanced Excel is important and knowledge of Power Query and Power BI will be highly regarded
If the above resonates with you and you are excited at the prospect of joining a successful and fast growth organisation and premium brand then please APPLY NOW!