What are the responsibilities and job description for the Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CFPR) Lead - Bentonville, ARK - Hybrid position at Mars?
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Supply Planner T1-II
Bentonville, ARK
The Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment Manager (CPFR) is the primary point of contact for Wal-Mart Replenishment Managers and is a secondary point of contact for Wal-Mart Buying personnel. The role is critical to developing a high quality relationship with this supply chain driven customer, and plays a vital internal role supporting sales growth and driving operational efficiencies while working collaboratively with Supply, Sales and Demand Planning.
The CPFR is responsible for supporting critical decisions and providing recommendations impacting both the customer and Mars-Wrigley supply chain & finished goods inventory. Influencing the customer, our account team, and our internal supply teams is crucial to the effectiveness of this role. Strong analytical skills coupled with the ability to provide an influential business case will be essential to successfully gain alignment for implementing product supply recommendations.
What are we looking for?
Minimum
Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.
Supply Planner T1-II
Bentonville, ARK
The Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment Manager (CPFR) is the primary point of contact for Wal-Mart Replenishment Managers and is a secondary point of contact for Wal-Mart Buying personnel. The role is critical to developing a high quality relationship with this supply chain driven customer, and plays a vital internal role supporting sales growth and driving operational efficiencies while working collaboratively with Supply, Sales and Demand Planning.
The CPFR is responsible for supporting critical decisions and providing recommendations impacting both the customer and Mars-Wrigley supply chain & finished goods inventory. Influencing the customer, our account team, and our internal supply teams is crucial to the effectiveness of this role. Strong analytical skills coupled with the ability to provide an influential business case will be essential to successfully gain alignment for implementing product supply recommendations.
What are we looking for?
Minimum
- 2 years with Supply Chain (order management, production planning, inventory analysis/management, outbound logistics, etc.) or equivalent school study.
- Ability to travel 5% of the time
- Managerial presence, interpersonal and leadership skills
- Ability to work across multiple cross-functional teams
- Analyze and Improve Performance
- Skilled at process management
- High decision quality in a fast-paced environment
- Proficient with Microsoft Office.
- Demonstrate leadership capability to drive collaboration & business results
- Demonstrate the ability to define and deliver on customer needs and expectations
- Hands-on responsibility with outside customers within the last 12 months
- Bachelor's Degree
- Understanding of Retail Link, Luminate, GRS, SAP, McLane Portal
- The knowledge, skills, and abilities typically acquired through the completion of an associate's degree program in Supply Chain or Business.
- Proficient with Retail link, Luminate & GRS
- Ability to adjust, adapt, respond to, and be resourceful in the face of change to deliver business objectives
- Develops strong relationships at all levels of the customer’s supply chain
- Must effectively influence team members to gain support for replenishment and inventory management policies that maximize product availability at store level, while minimizing inventory in the supply chain
- Partners with customer to be the best in class as measured by SAMBC and Advantage Survey
- Owns and manages customer specific KPIs and provides proactive communication and action plans to mitigate service risk
- Provides supply chain expertise and insights to the Wal-Mart Mars-Wrigley sales team
- Develops analysis and scorecards for communication to the customer and key cross-functional teams to improve overall supply chain compliance and effectiveness
- Provides both quantitative and qualitative feedback regarding customer activity to improve the overall forecast accuracy of the organization
- Has responsibility for the accuracy of the customer system forecasts and their inputs into the Demand Planning process
- Manage the supply chain inter-dependencies between Sales, Demand Planning, Customer Service, Inventory Management, Operations Planning and the Customer
- Responsible for all Retail Link & GRS replenishment activities
- Develop and implement on-going improvements for collaborative planning, forecast and replenishment processes
- Work with over 140,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
- [Insert any additional market/role specific benefits that the candidate might be interested in]
Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.
