What if you were given the opportunity to make a difference?
It's time to embrace your Infinite Possibilities! This is your opportunity to be a part of International Paper, a Fortune 500 company and global leader in paper and packaging products. IP is known for our commitment to the environment and cutting-edge technology. We have spent more than 100 years creating new ideas and we are looking for people who can collaborate to help us build on our history while creating future success.
This role is responsible for overseeing and coordinating monthly collaborative forecast with main customers for Fine Papers, Board, Newsprint and Pulp. It is also responsible for developing and maintaining monthly demand forecasts.
This role is an ideal position to gain knowledge of supply and demand management process in European Papers organization. During daily duties Collaborative Forecasting Planner will have a chance to use analytical skills and learn how to manage multiple stakeholders (Sales, External Customers and Customer Service) with various priorities and conflicting requirements.
It also gives an opportunity to work in rapidly changing environment, get enormous portion of business acumen when dealing daily duties and be a part of unique supply chain team!
- Manage monthly collaborative forecasting with customers, interact with internal as well as external stakeholders to understand demand forecast drivers, follow-up with all participants to ensure that actions agreed in the forecast reviews are completed in a timely manner.
- Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop statistical forecast models, and evaluate forecast results.
- Provide customers & sales team with full analysis of collaborative forecast to ensure alignment and smooth cooperation.
- Provide Forecast accuracy reports, analyze trends and identify opportunities for improving the accuracy of future sales forecasts.
- Develop and measure key performance indicators to track and evaluate forecasts, to assist in assessing the effectiveness of the demand planning & forecasting function, and to work towards continuous improvement.
- Support re-brandings and PLC from forecasting perspective.
- Provide back-up for Demand Planner.
- Coordination and support for European Sales Team & Customers in terms of collaborative forecasting
- Experience in the following functions is required: supply chain management, planning, logistics, manufacturing and/or related field
- Ability to effectively communicate in English and Polish
- Proficiency in MS office application, SQL preferred
- Proficiency with IP enterprise applications (Elixir, OMP, IP reporting tools )
- Working knowledge of multiple business areas such as purchasing, logistics, manufacturing, distribution, sales & marketing and supply chain
If you are excited about this role, please send us your application with a statement below.
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