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Title: Demand Planner (Onsite) Location: Kennewick, WA About Lamb Weston We love making fries almost as much as you like eating them! Since the 1950's, Lamb Weston has inspired customers with food they love, trust, and share with families and friends. As a leading global manufacturer of quality frozen potato products with over 9,000+ team members around the world, it's our business to see the possibilities in potatoes and people. We are looking for team members with an appetite for a challenge! People who are hungry to join a winning team and help us make a difference in the world. When you join Lamb Weston, you join a community with a strong support network and training programs designed to nurture, inspire, and help you grow. We are driven by a relentless pursuit of results and by people who think creatively and embrace our values of: Integrity, Teamwork, Inclusion, Drive for Results, and Empowerment. Exactly what you'd expect from the most inventive potato company in the world! Join Lamb Weston! We bring the world together with our fries. Job Description Summary The Demand Planner manages the overall demand signal for a specified Business Unit. Maintenance of the demand planning system, building the relationship with the Sales team, and driving continuous improvements supporting the demand planning deliverables in the weekly/monthly processes. Job Description * Create and maintain all stages of the demand plan - inception to discontinuity. * Handle sales history for forecast accuracy and promotional demand. * Maintain data relative to demand forecasting including hierarchy, historical data cleansing, demand shaping and model parameters. * Participate in integrated business planning to implement SAP IBP. * Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff. * Maintain business performance metrics and participate and drive demand evolution plan through Sales & Operation Execution (S&OE). * Leverage best-in-class process and strategy to ensure the DP team is developing a 18-month consensus forecast by using insights such as promotional plans, distribution lane realignments, shipment history, competitive and marketing plans. * Summarize and report key forecast changes and concise drivers of forecast accuracy performance to Supply Chain Leadership. * Conduct root cause analyses of forecast error and identify corrective actions, leading the Demand Planning Team towards KPI targets. * Make recommendations to enhance business processes and identify opportunities to improve operational inefficiencies. * Work with cross-functional partners on projects such as new product launches, obsolescence, and transitions to evaluate assumptions - new product forecast, pipeline fill, and cannibalization. Basic & Preferred Qualifications * Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Supply Chain, Operations, related field preferred. * Strong analytical skills and statistical knowledge. * Understanding of SAP and experience in software implementation & testing preferred. * Demonstrated communication, collaboration and leadership skills. * Preferred 5-7+ years consumer products forecasting and/or supply chain operations experience. * Experience in and/or exposure to S&OP processes and procedures, customer planning and/or supply planning. * Strong working knowledge & proven skills with Microsoft applications. * Strong collaboration and influence management skills as evident by cross functional alignment and delivery of initiatives. * APICS, CPIM, CSCP certification a plus. Industry-Competitive Benefits Coupled with our compensation and bonus incentive programs, our benefits deliver