Company Description
Foster Farms has been serving families since 1939. Since the founding days, Foster Farms has always been committed to providing consumers with the highest-quality, best-tasting poultry products available. Our commitment to excellence, honesty, quality, service, and our valued team members will shine through in everything we do.
Foster Farms is always looking for talented individuals to join the Foster Farms team. We offer the experience of a large organization but operate like a family business. More than half of our job openings are filled by internal promotion, and we encourage team members to gain a variety of experiences across different functional groups.
Job Description
Pay Range $67,000 to $81,300 per year.
The Associate Demand Planner will support all processes relating generation, assessment of the Demand Forecast that drives our supply chain process and collaboration with cross functional partners to deliver the best forecast accuracy and to grow our business.
As a key team member within the Fresh Chicken Retail team, the Demand Planner will need to operate and embrace the team’s principles of:
- Improve the operational efficiency to grow our business
- Continue improve the most accurate forecast, a consensus plan agreed upon single source of truth to which all are accountable enabled through cross functional team input, technology and business insights
- Enable execution of monthly demand planning process for the deliverables
- Support monthly Sales and Operations Planning(S&OP) process to effectively meet the customer expectations and satisfactions.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Support and provide feedback for development of the demand forecast process based on a pre-defined framework. Apply promotional and lifecycle planning such as phase-in/phase-out and new launches to create the operations forecast.
- Evaluate the results of the forecast at customer and material level against orders and delivery. Understand the variances and make the necessary adjustment to reflect the most appropriate demand forecast results
- Proactive forecast quality assessment using trend analysis, forecast vs actual results and data input of volume by utilizing customer promotional calendars, history and market intelligence
- Assist with the S&OP execution process that drives the consensus forecast with key stakeholders.
- Support all related integrated planning requirements and or other assigned projects
- Strong attention to detail and business acumen.
- Strong self-motivation to improve capabilities of self and others through various means of learning methods
- Able to navigate through complex business processes with understanding of upstream and downstream implications
- Team player. Proven cross functional team collaboration at all levels
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree preferred, preferably in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management or Business Administration.
- 1+ years' experience in area of Supply Chain Management or Operations. Strong forecast, supply planning experience preferred.
- Project management experience preferred
- Experience SAP APO/IBP or other key MRP systems preferred
- MS Office
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Foster Farms is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minorities, Females, Veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Foster Farms participates in E-Verify during the hire process at all locations for all new TEAM Members.
Top Skills
What We Do
Serving families since 1939, Foster Farms has become one of the West Coast's most trusted brands. We've grown from a small poultry farm outside of Modesto, California, into a thriving food industry leader with products that span far beyond fresh chicken. We are now more than 12,000 employees strong with operations in California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Arkansas, Alabama and Louisiana.
Our portfolio offers a full variety of fresh, frozen and ready-to-eat products that meet clear consumer needs. Our market leading foods include the West’s #1 fresh chicken brand, the #1 frozen-cooked chicken brand and the country's #1 corndog. With plans for continued product innovation, and aggressive marketing support across multiple categories, Foster Farms is poised to enter its next major phase of growth, and become a national consumer food products leader. We are seeking team members that want to be a part of this new and exciting chapter in our company’s history.
At Foster Farms, excellence and quality guide everything we do. Our employees are our greatest strength and a true measure of our success. We treat our employees like family and encourage a collaborative professional environment. Foster Farms offers excellent salaries and benefits; we strongly support employee education and advancement within the Company. We are a family-focused organization and are active in our communities.
For information about joining our team, please visit: https://jobs.fosterfarms.com/
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