Demand Planning Specialist

**Company**: IRCA Group is a leading international B2B provider of semi-finished ingredients for the bakery, pastry, and gelato markets. Our products cater to independent producers as well as large food manufacturers. We produce chocolate, decorations, creams, inclusions, pastry mixes, gelato ingredients, and other bakery/pastry essentials. Headquartered in Italy, IRCA Group boasts a strong track record of growth over the past decade, with 22 manufacturing facilities all over the world, 2000+ employee and €1 billion of revenues. **What we offer**:IRCA fosters a dynamic environment, embracing diversity and valuing diverse perspectives and international experiences, offering a stimulating context. We promote professional growth by providing tailor-made development programs and career advancement opportunities locally and internationally. With locations worldwide, we offer the chance to work on international projects, collaborate across cultures, and gain a global perspective. Joining our team means becoming part of a global community of passionate professionals dedicated to making a difference. If you are looking for stimulating challenges and the chance to contribute your ideas for process improvement in an ever-growing company, IRCA is the right place. **Purpose of the position** We are seeking a Demand Planner who, alongside the Demand Planner Coordinator, will be responsible for improving the accuracy and reliability of the consolidated demand plan within a growing business context, managing exceptions in collaboration with Central Planning to best meet market demand. Actively involved in the SOP process with a focus on Forecast Review meetings, consolidating and sharing optimal demand insights with commercial teams, and focusing on key critical channels and categories. **Main responsibilities**: - Drive Forecast Review Meetings with Sales at the Country level - Support the development and improvement of the Demand Planning process, in terms of ownership, and engagement of the stakeholder - Develop, maintain and improve a Demand Plan at the SKU level, at the Month level for specific markets/Channels/Categories assigned, for both short/mid-term horizon (4-month rolling forecast) and long-term horizon (18-month rolling forecast) - Weekly/daily monitoring of actual sales vs forecast vs budget - Analyze historical data and statistical forecasts, manage business opportunities in fast and growing markets - Analyze the forecast accuracy and bias results at the Country/Channel/Category level and propose actions to achieve and improve those KPIs - Close collaboration with the Central Planning Team, to analyze and support any situation in terms of capacity and to guarantee the best service level to the Customer - Active contribution to the Go Live of the new Demand planning tool (Infor DMP) - Close collaboration with IT, to develop new Demand Dashboards and Reporting (SAC - SapAnalytic Cloud or Power BI) - Support New Product Introduction and Item Switcher **Requirements**: - Degree in economics or management engineering or Data Science or Statistical - 2-3 years experience in demand planning (any supply planning position experience is a plus) - Ability to process and analyze sales data - Knowledge of the planning process, both Demand and Supply planning - Knowledge of the different sales channels and experience in B2B channels is a plus - Knowledge of KPIs related to the forecasting process (FA, Bias) - MS Office (advanced usage of Excel, VBA is a plus) - PowerBI advanced usage - Demand Planning systems (like SAP APO, SAP IBP, Blue Yonder, InforDMP) - English proficiency, Italian B1