AddressReal Dairy Australia (RDA) is an Australian owned business with locations and manufacturing facilities throughout Australia (Queensland, NSW, Victoria) with the head office located at Greenacre. RDA is a world class supplier of dairy-based products, services and solutions to the retail, foodservice and food ingredients markets.
The Role:
- Develop and maintain demand forecasting models based on historical data, industry trends, and customer input covering a rolling 24 month horizon for all items in the portfolio
- Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and Production teams to gather and analyse data on market trends, customer demand, and product performance.
- Ensure that the Sales team are aligned with the Demand Plan
- Collaborate with Key customers to align forward plans (promotions, seasonality, events) at both the demand ands sales plan levels.
- Ensure that the plan is correctly shared with our supply chain partners across manufacturing sites.
- Perform analytical analysis on future trends and build models/scenarios in line with forward strategic vision of the sales team and customers.
- Utilise forecasting tools and techniques to predict customer demand and market trends
- Identify and address potential demand and supply issues proactively
- Generate reports and provide insights to support decision-making process
Key functions:
- Specifications
- Analysing
- Reporting
- Optimisation
- New Production implementation
- Process improvement
- Communication between departments
- Stakeholder engagement
The Person:
- To succeed, you'll have a solid Demand Planning background in an FMCG environment (ideally gained within a Food Manufacturing environment) and tertiary qualifications relevant to supply chain or manufacturing systems will be highly regarded
- Previous experience with Microsoft Dynamics preferred but not essential
- Intermediate Excel skills
- You’ll already have what it takes to manage data, putting your analytical skills to use, whilst also refining and improving our processes.
- The right person must be thorough and detailed, with a high level of relationship building and influencing skills.
- With your keen eye for detail and process improvement mindset, you’ll be able to spot growth opportunities and proactively manage risks
- Flexible approach to work with the ability to solve problems in a time pressured environment and reorganise work plans to manage conflicting priorities
- Strong sense of urgency and decisiveness
- Ability to work effectively in a team
- Strong interpersonal and planning skills
- Excellent communication and influencing skills
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