IBP Category Lead
Mondelez International · Toronto · CA$102,600–CA$128,250 (stated in the posting)
Job Description
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You will oversee demand planning activities for your assigned product families in your business unit. You will also lead the demand review process and driving interactions with the cross-functional teams.
How you will contribute
You will:
- Lead the demand management agenda for the category, being the key interface between commercial (sales revenue planning) and supply (replenishment) to identify and evaluate the impact of potential availability issues/commercial changes including gap assessment and risk and opportunity discussions
- Partner with modelling team for the generation of statistical forecasting
- Manage, coach and develop a team
- Review standard consumption versus forecast at the customer and total product levels, liaising with replenishment and sales revenue planning to manage potential availability issues and the impact of under consumption
- Drive strong linkages with the commercial, customer collaboration, modelling, order fulfilment teams and supply planning including innovation and equity
- Drive continuous capability building in the demand planning team for planning improvement
What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:
- Comprehensive supply chain, economic, financial or logistics experience and commercial awareness in a fast-moving consumer goods or consumer packaged goods environment
- Open to learn new ways of working and is willing to use new tools
- Experience driving demand review and participation in an IBP cycle
- Able to influence cross-functional teams, working on the key priorities and improving the plan
- Able to build effective teams
- Knowledge in leading practice demand planning and end-to-end supply chain concepts
- Excellent problem-solving skills, analytical skills and verbal and written communication skills
More about this role
The IBP Category Lead will lead the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process for their respective business unit and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the development and execution of an accurate demand forecast. This role drives supply chain efficiencies, improves forecast accuracy, and identifies risks and opportunities to optimize business performance. A key part of the role involves collaborating with and influencing stakeholders through data-driven storytelling and continuous improvement initiatives.
What You’ll Do
- Lead, manage, coach, and develop a forecasting team, driving continuous capability building for planning improvement.
- Oversee the development of an unbiased, unconstrained 24-month forecast with properly documented assumptions.
- Partner with Category Finance to ensure appropriate linkage between IBP and financial forecasts, including key assumptions, risks, and opportunities.
- Collaborate with the Modelling Team to generate statistical forecasts.
- Work with Commercial Leadership to quantify and validate risks and opportunities, supporting plans to close gaps between forecast and targets.
- Partner with Innovation and Equity teams to validate the sizing of new products (innovations, renovations) and campaigns within the 24-month forecast.
- Collaborate with Supply Planning to ensure confidence in the demand plan, facilitating timely, appropriate forecast decisions for successful execution and delivery.
- Identify, communicate, and monitor risks and opportunities to the demand plan (e.g., abnormal demand, demand shaping, changes in sales forecasts, budgets, and strategies), supporting risk assessments and mitigation.
- Collaborate with Marketing and cross-functional teams on product lifecycle analysis, managing introductions and exits to optimize service and waste KPIs.
- Drive and enhance demand planning processes, leveraging available technologies and proposing improvements to boost efficiency and accuracy.
- Own and facilitate the Monthly Demand Planning process within the IBP/S&OP cycle, presenting changes and recommendations during monthly reviews.
- Participate in IBP meeting cycles, including supply meetings and volume reviews, to address demand changes.
- Lead demand plan updates, ensuring aligned information is accurately captured in systems and communicated to Supply Chain, Finance, Sales, and other key stakeholders.
- Support the generation of the demand plan for the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) process in collaboration with Sales, Business, and Finance teams.
- Lead cross-functional forecast-related projects, collaborating with Supply Planners to resolve capacity, inventory, and supply gaps, including critical allocation recommendations and their tie to CFR recovery projections.
What You’ll Bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:
- Post-secondary education with an APICS/ASCM and/or IBF certification (University degree or professional designation required).
- 10-12 years of experience in demand planning and forecasting within the CPG or similar industry.
- 4+ years of team management experience.
- Comprehensive supply chain, economic, financial, or logistics experience with strong business acumen.
- Openness to learning new ways of working and a hands-on approach to using data and systems.
- Significant experience driving demand review and participation in an IBP cycle.
- Strategic agility, able to drive cross-functional results by proactively managing key issues and priorities.
- Maturity and tact to effectively work with cross-functional teams, managing conflicting priorities and ambiguity.
- Strong senior leadership influencing skills and organizational agility; proven ability to build effective teams.
- Knowledge of leading practice demand planning and end-to-end supply chain concepts.
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication (verbal and written) skills, with the ability to interpret large volumes of data and provide actionable insights.
- Advanced proficiency in MS Office (specifically Excel for pivot tables, modeling) and experience with ERP and APS (SAP APO and/or o9) systems.
- Proven ability to collaborate with and manage relationships across cross-functional teams (Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance).
- Experience with continuous improvement methodologies (e.g., Lean Six Sigma) and familiarity with change management.
- Strong business acumen, with the ability to assess both short-term and long-term impacts of business decisions.
- Experience with PowerBI, MRP, and supply chain management systems is an asset
Business Unit Summary
With several brands that are among consumer favourites, including Cadbury, OREO, Christie and Maynards, we are one of the largest snack companies in Canada. Many of our iconic brands are ranked first, second or third in their categories, and our manufacturers and pastry chefs have an enviable mission to create and manufacture chocolate, cookies, crackers and candy in our iconic factories and locations across Ontario. A company with many ambitious growth targets, we have invested close to $250 million in our Ontario plants in recent years alone; We run marketing campaigns promoting innovative products such as Cadbury Dark Milk tablets and OREO Birthday Cake and Peppermint Bark cookies.
Our community of more than 2,683 employees is present across Canada and our head office is in Toronto. Passion and dedication characterize our Company. We encourage all our employees to be themselves at work, to speak out and to encourage diversity in all areas of activity.
In addition, we foster a flexible work environment and place great importance on the notions of trust and empathy to promote a true sense of belonging.
Mondelez welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates with disabilities taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Please note that the term "accommodation" in this posting means changes that are made in order to meet the needs of a person with disabilities and not lodging.