Sales Reports to: Director, Demand Planning Status: Full time The pay range for the role is $75,300 to $125,300 plus bonus, comprehensive benefits, retirement savings plan, paid vacation, and other perks and opportunities. Reporting to the Director, Demand Planning, this position is responsible for leading and executing the demand planning process by working collaboratively across multiple functional areas to create an operational demand plan. Continuously work to streamline demand planning processes, improving demand plan accuracy and creating supply-chain efficiencies.

Utilize continuous improvement tools to drive improvements.

Demand Planning: Lead the development of the demand plan (minimum 24 months horizon) based on a statistically generated base forecast and forward customer lift activity through sales intelligence gleaned from sales lift notifications and IBP discussions. Process leader for the Channel Demand Review step in the Integrated Business Planning process. Interface with sales team to ensure that the demand plan is reflective of anticipated customer requirements, and that all key assumptions are understood and documented.





Interface with customers to collaboratively develop demand plan assumptions and gain insight into customer order and replenishment process; support knowledge sharing with customer base where appropriate.

Notably: ensure that within the short-term horizon, the demand plan is appropriately broken down into the weekly buckets required by the production planning team. Identify and summarize risks and opportunities to the demand plan. Provide the Sales team with performance management reporting, both proactive (abnormal demand), and post-mortem (Bias and Accuracy reporting) to drive root cause understanding and corrective action.

Aid in the development and analysis of lift activity – pre and post event. In conjunction with marketing, provide life cycle analysis on product families and individual products. Other ad-hoc projects as dictated by business needs.

Minimum 5+ years’ experience in demand planning and forecasting.

Experience within a food processing environment – working knowledge of shelf life constraints, HACCP. Demonstrated proficiency in supply chain concepts – safety stock planning, MRP calculations, scheduling constraints, bottlenecks, etc. Advanced knowledge of MS Office and applications; Highly developed analytical, quantitative and data analysis aptitude. Exceptional organization, prioritization and planning skills.

📌 Demand Replenishment Planner (Toronto)
🏢 Gay Lea Foods
📍 Toronto