Demand Planner at Zausner Foods Corporation – New Holland, Pennsylvania

About Us

Savencia Consumer Brands story began in the early ‘70’s when the renowned French cheese maker Jean-Noel Bongrain decided it was time to bring his passion and skill for French specialty cheese to the States. In 1974, alouette Spreadable Cheese was born and has grown to become a leader in soft spreadable cheese.

Savencia is a family-owned group, operating mainly in the cheese and dairy industry as well as fine delicatessen and chocolate, and is amongst the world’s leading companies in producing specialty cheeses. As a proud subsidiary, Savencia Consumer Brands, specializes in crafting high end specialties in the USA under brands alouette, Ile de France and Supreme. Savencia Premium Brands, a separate BU, also imports the best high-end cheeses such as Esquirrou, St Andre, St Agur, and Etorki in addition to producer of the World’s Best Cheese winner in 2019, Rogue Creamery.

Named a Top Employer in the USA in 2023-2025, Savencia’s core values center on leading the way to better food through innovation, high-quality, and sustainable dairy products, driven by principles of trust in mankind, responsibility, and independence. The group focuses on fostering employee well-being, fostering diversity, and upholding ethical standards like tolerance, honesty, and loyalty to ensure sustainable growth

Summary/Objective

The Demand Planner creates and maintains rolling 24-month forecast models for retail customers, incorporating business intelligence and forecast information gathered from sales, marketing, finance, retailer replenishment analysts, and other sources (i.e. Circana or other syndicated consumer data). This position is located in New Holland, Pennsylvania.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Creates and maintains forecasting models incorporating business intelligence and forecast information gathered from sales, marketing, sales strategy, and leveraging shipment and consumption data (i.e.: Circana, customer specific portals/reporting, SPINS reports).
• Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop statistical forecast models to identify anomalies and improve accuracy.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of promotional activities (sales, marketing, media, etc.) and post-analysis of their actual yield
• Ongoing communication with sales regarding changes to promotional plans and distribution of any SKU and reflect changes within demand plan
• Coordinate cross-functionally with sales strategy and marketing organizations to reconcile variances and refine the forecast model to reflect updated sales and marketing assumptions, including logging of key assumptions as part of IBP Demand Review.
• Develop an unconstrained, unbiased forecast of the portfolio at the SKU level within SAP APO
• Proactively inform Supply Chain of significant changes in short term horizon
• Provide information about promotional activities of the customers to Customer Service in case of product shortage to help product allocation process
• Measure and improve forecast accuracy as KPI within IBP Process
• Drive Discontinuance process

Competencies

Travel

Up to 15% travel may be required

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Statistics, Information Systems, Business, or related field
• 3+ years in demand planning, forecasting, or supply chain analytics
• Excellent communication skills