AddressDEMAND PLANNING ANALYST
- North Sydney
We are Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) – a dedicated team of 42,000 people, serving customers in 31 countries. We work together to make, move, and sell, some of the world’s most loved drinks.
We are a global business and one of the leading consumer goods companies in the world. We help our 2.1 million customers grow and are constantly investing in exciting new products, innovative technologies, and fresh ideas. This helps us to delight the 600 million people who enjoy our drinks every day.
Our well-known portfolio in Australia includes the Coca-Cola family of products, as well as loved brands like Sprite, Fanta, Mount Franklin, Powerade, Jim Beam, Canadian Club and Grinders Coffee.
About your new role…
We have an amazing opportunity to join our fun and friendly Planning Team as our Demand Planning Analyst. Your role will be to assist the Demand Planning team to generate and maintain robust forecast plans which drives customer service improvement, product/sku availability, production efficiency and accuracy for the S&OP Monetised plan. You will complete in-depth analysis & scenario modelling, integrating category intelligence to understand insights into customer trends and enable better forecasting. The forecasting system is critical to the role, with management of the current APO system, as well as transition to new technology a core focus.
What you will be doing…
- The complete in-depth analysis & scenario modelling, integrating category intelligence, to understand insights into consumer and customer trends to enable better forecasting.
- Leveraging Artificial Intelligence, Big Data & Market Intelligence Research to support insights into forecast trends analysis.
- Coordinating with the Demand Planning, managing and coordinating all Product Lifecycle activities (NPD and Deletions) related to forecasting is done on time and aligned with customers and supply planning.
- Driving the automation of the Forecasting process, through system optimisation & differential forecasting approaches
- Working with IT, to ensure forecast data integrity issues are resolved across all levels of data (down too; by SKU by state, by location, by customer)
- Ensuring accuracy of Acumen to APO forecast information is reconciled in a timely fashion
- Ensure the maintenance of statistical models as a key input into calculation of baseline forecasts, with overlays on promotions, NPD, category performance or pricing adjustments.
Let’s talk about you…
- Experience in FMCG / Supply Chain / Planning roles, with analytical, demand or supply planning background.
- Understanding of demand and/or supply planning processes and analytics.
- Developed business and commercial acumen.
- Ability to think critically in complex situations when dealing with data from multiple sources.
- Demonstrated experience in SAP APO or similar Forecasting Tool.
- High degree of computer literacy, particular in MS software packages (excel, power BI)
What’s in it for you?
- A generous performance related incentive scheme
- Employee Share Purchase program
- Attractive leave package including paid parental leave and purchase leave options.
- Free monthly product allowances to share with family and friends (including Coca-Cola, Mount Franklin, Monster and more!).
- Wellbeing and health benefits that include: a fitness passport, free access for you and family to the employee assistance program (and counselling services), and discounts with customers including Microsoft, Hertz, GoGet and Estee Lauder.
Why choose us for your next role?
At CCEP we are committed to creating a great place to work, where people can grow, be happy, and be well in a safe, open, diverse, and inclusive workplace. We’re investing to make sure our people have the tools and capabilities needed to succeed. And we hope you want to be part of that.
Applications Close Friday 5th July, 2024
At Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, we are always refreshing the way we work and becoming a more inclusive, diverse, and equitable company. It’s important to us that you have the best recruitment experience possible, therefore, please let us know what support we can put in place for you in terms of any accessibility adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners is committed to the health and safety of all employees and to equal employment opportunity for all employees to ensure that our employees have a safe work environment that is also free of discrimination and harassment.
This role will be subject to our standard pre-employment checks, which includes employment references, working rights and/or medical check, background checks, dependent on role.
