What are the responsibilities and job description for the Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment Planner, Walmart position at Ferrero?
Job Location: Bentonville
Company Description
Ferrero is a family-owned company with a truly progressive and global outlook and iconic brands such as Nutella®, Tic Tac®, Ferrero Rocher®, Raffaello®, Kinder Bueno® and Kinder Surprise®. As the love for our brands continues to grow, so too does our global reach. Represented in more than 50 countries, with products sold in more than 170, the Ferrero Group is loved by generations around the world. The secret to our global success? 40,000 dedicated employees who celebrate care and quality to craft a business, careers and brands we are proud of. Join us, and you could be one of them.
About the Role:
Are you ready to make an impact in the world of replenishment planning? Join our team as a Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) Planner for Walmart, where you’ll be at the heart of ensuring everyday favorites in our Cookies, Cones, and Crusts categories are always on shelves for customers to enjoy.
In this customer-facing role, you’ll take the lead in managing inventory dynamics, analyzing shipment and consumption trends, and fine-tuning forecasts to drive On-Time In-Full (OTIF) success. As part of the Replenishment Planning team, your expertise will ensure we meet our in-stock metrics and exceed customer expectations, making you an essential part of our supply chain success.
The Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) Planner for Walmart is a hybrid role and is based in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Main Responsibilities:
Consumers, quality and care are at the heart of everything we do. So, to be successful at Ferrero, you’ll need to be just as consumer and product centric as we are - dedicated to crafting brilliant results for consumers around the world.
#FNA
Diversity Statement
Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all of our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative and highly rewarding.
Ferrero N.A. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.
Company Description
Ferrero is a family-owned company with a truly progressive and global outlook and iconic brands such as Nutella®, Tic Tac®, Ferrero Rocher®, Raffaello®, Kinder Bueno® and Kinder Surprise®. As the love for our brands continues to grow, so too does our global reach. Represented in more than 50 countries, with products sold in more than 170, the Ferrero Group is loved by generations around the world. The secret to our global success? 40,000 dedicated employees who celebrate care and quality to craft a business, careers and brands we are proud of. Join us, and you could be one of them.
About the Role:
Are you ready to make an impact in the world of replenishment planning? Join our team as a Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) Planner for Walmart, where you’ll be at the heart of ensuring everyday favorites in our Cookies, Cones, and Crusts categories are always on shelves for customers to enjoy.
In this customer-facing role, you’ll take the lead in managing inventory dynamics, analyzing shipment and consumption trends, and fine-tuning forecasts to drive On-Time In-Full (OTIF) success. As part of the Replenishment Planning team, your expertise will ensure we meet our in-stock metrics and exceed customer expectations, making you an essential part of our supply chain success.
The Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) Planner for Walmart is a hybrid role and is based in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Main Responsibilities:
- Support Gross Sales Value (GSV) growth and drive operational efficiencies, working jointly with the Account Team Lead and Demand and Planning teams
- Collaborate with the customer to identify areas of opportunity for greater efficiency and service improvements
- Effectively influence replenishment settings inventory management policies that maximize product availability at the location level, while balancing product in the supply chain
- While focused on Everyday (EVD) assortment, knowledge of seasonal activations and tentpoles that will impact the EVD business will also be key to this role’s success
- Innovation absorption into EVD replenishment planning via partnership with Account Manager and Trade Marketing post distribution and velocity stabilization
- Implement and drive CPFR process improvements through cross-functional collaboration as well as partnering with customers to drive achievement of Supply Chain metrics and account level replenishment Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Conduct detailed analytics on order and supply chain issues, utilizing advanced systems and process excellence tools
- Work collaboratively with the customer, internal customer sales team and Ferrero USA Sales and Supply Chain organizations to improve customer forecast accuracy, achieve customer service level and inventory goals, and drive the qualitative and quantitative customer forecast through operations
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Supply Chain, or a related field required
- 3 years of progressive experience in Sales Planning, Forecasting, or Demand Planning; CPG Preferred
- Advanced Excel skills – raw data manipulation across multiple sources and reporting development
- Comfort and ability to navigate interaction with Senior Leadership and Customer Leadership
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to develop and maintain positive cross-functional relationships
- Effective time management skillls; maximizes productivity to meet critical monthly check-points
- Walmart Luminate experience a plus
Consumers, quality and care are at the heart of everything we do. So, to be successful at Ferrero, you’ll need to be just as consumer and product centric as we are - dedicated to crafting brilliant results for consumers around the world.
#FNA
Diversity Statement
Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all of our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative and highly rewarding.
Ferrero N.A. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.
