Managing the Demand Planning Team of 8 tasked with forecasting sales demand at the entire Kerry manufacturing footprint throughout the Europe & Russia Region. The Demand Planning Manager plays a critical role in driving coordination and facilitating the communication between the commercial team, finance, wider supply chain and other key business stakeholders. Responsibility includes, reporting at various levels of aggregation the business agreed KPI's and play a critical role in the S&OP… Show more Managing the Demand Planning Team of 8 tasked with forecasting sales demand at the entire Kerry manufacturing footprint throughout the Europe & Russia Region. The Demand Planning Manager plays a critical role in driving coordination and facilitating the communication between the commercial team, finance, wider supply chain and other key business stakeholders. Responsibility includes, reporting at various levels of aggregation the business agreed KPI's and play a critical role in the S&OP process, alongside team guidance, development and continuous process improvement. Show less

Managing the Demand Planning Team of 3 tasked with forecasting sales demand at multiple manufacturing locations throughout the European footprint. The Demand Planning Manager plays a critical role in coordinating and facilitating the communication between the commercial team, finance, wider supply chain and other key business stakeholders. The Demand Planning Manager is also tasked with reporting at various levels of aggregation the business agreed KPI's and play a critical role in the S&OP… Show more Managing the Demand Planning Team of 3 tasked with forecasting sales demand at multiple manufacturing locations throughout the European footprint. The Demand Planning Manager plays a critical role in coordinating and facilitating the communication between the commercial team, finance, wider supply chain and other key business stakeholders. The Demand Planning Manager is also tasked with reporting at various levels of aggregation the business agreed KPI's and play a critical role in the S&OP process. Show less

The Demand planning role is to provide Kerry with 'one set of numbers' driving the business. To generate a monthly forecast for a portfolio of products through a combination of statistical analysis, gathering of market intelligence and engagement with customers/commercial on understanding and forecasting future demand. Review orders received versus forecast and understand where orders not received. The role is critical in facilitating the communication between the commercial team, finance and… Show more The Demand planning role is to provide Kerry with 'one set of numbers' driving the business. To generate a monthly forecast for a portfolio of products through a combination of statistical analysis, gathering of market intelligence and engagement with customers/commercial on understanding and forecasting future demand. Review orders received versus forecast and understand where orders not received. The role is critical in facilitating the communication between the commercial team, finance and the supply chain with the aim of securing a demand consensus as part of the monthly process.• Generate a monthly consensus Forecasts of all product categories at multiple levels of aggregation at a planning horizon of '18 months.• Coordinate cross-functional activities in cooperation with commercial managers, and Finance to ensure a coherent forecasting plan reconciling significant variances and reflecting updated trends in the market• Provide timely, accurate and insightlul analysis and commentary on trends and patterns to support commercial and finance.• Provide input to Supply Planning in developing inventory strategies on existing items, new products, and product phase-in/outs• Work closely with Finance to understand how volume forecast translates in value terms.• Review FA and Bias results, where necessary carry out root cause analysis and provide recommendations to future forecasts.• Manage the monthly demand reconciliation review reporting on the relevant KPls, assumptions and risks contained in the demand plan.• Be intrinsically part of the NPI process managing the integrity of data on the system. Show less

• KerryConnect is a €350m project within Kerry Group to deploy SAP as their Enterprise Application Software system of choice, this project is rolling out worldwide across the Kerry Group currently in EMEA region. All business functions are aligning to the new system and ways of working; with staff coming out of business roles to take up positions within the project.• Responsible for leading the functional roll-out of SAP Advance Planning and Optimizer (APO) Demand Planning solution to the… Show more • KerryConnect is a €350m project within Kerry Group to deploy SAP as their Enterprise Application Software system of choice, this project is rolling out worldwide across the Kerry Group currently in EMEA region. All business functions are aligning to the new system and ways of working; with staff coming out of business roles to take up positions within the project.• Responsible for leading the functional roll-out of SAP Advance Planning and Optimizer (APO) Demand Planning solution to the Kerry Ingredients & Flavours business / factories throughout EMEA.• Training Demand Planning “Superusers” (SU’s) identified at each site location in the functional usage of the SAP APO planning system and the process associated with the Demand Planning role for day-to –day tasks.• Statistical Forecasting Modelling• Sales History Cleansing• Customer and Commercial Forecast Uploads• Baseline and Consensus Forecast• Reporting – Forecast Accuracy / Forecast Bias (Business Warehouse)• Alert Monitor Analysis and Configuration• Lifecycle Planning (Like Modelling + Phase in & Out Profiling)• Identifying gaps in the system vs requirements as each site prepares to go live with the SAP solution and addressing these within the project team to close with technical / system solutions. Show less

• Active member of the Category Delivery Team (CDT) including daily interaction with Sales, Marketing, Finance and other Supply Chain users.• Responsibility for short term and long term forecasting, including maintaining the base line through historical cleansing/tagging to produce a useable statistically generated future forecast and updating promotional changes as the business requires.• Exposure to and training in the FuturMaster Demand Planning Software tool which aims to unify all… Show more • Active member of the Category Delivery Team (CDT) including daily interaction with Sales, Marketing, Finance and other Supply Chain users.• Responsibility for short term and long term forecasting, including maintaining the base line through historical cleansing/tagging to produce a useable statistically generated future forecast and updating promotional changes as the business requires.• Exposure to and training in the FuturMaster Demand Planning Software tool which aims to unify all Kerry products on the same platform.• Acts as an ambassador for the category portfolio to implement and drive the Kerry Foods Integrated Business Process (IBP), through chairing forecast review meetings with national account teams within the monthly demand planning cycle.• Identifies, analyses and updates promotional trends/fluctuations to facilitate debate within the wider business on current/future promotions and exceptional demand management. • Accountability for achieving high level forecast accuracy and low bias across the demand planning category• Part of the NPD/NPI process providing constructive data both pre and post launch enabling effective market integration.• Developed excellent working relationships with all business stakeholders, both internal and external, ensuring excellent information flow benefiting customer service in a fluctuating market and facilitating challenge to the commercial teams forecast.• Proactively manages stock shortages and waste in a competitive environment delivering optimum customer service, while minimising potential waste.• Provides full visibility of the rolling forecast through “one number” planning in FuturMaster for factory production planning facilitating maximum customer service levels while managing inventory levels to agreed parameters. • Training in and operational use of the Smartview Sales Analyser system and the Pro-mix MRP system. Show less

• Working within both an Irish and European supply chain team to optimise the supply of both HB & Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and Birds Eye frozen food to meet the customer requirements while maintaining optimum stock levels both at the Irish warehouse and the supplying factories across Europe.• Responsibilities of the position include:• Assessing demand plans and driving supply to meet the business unit needs.• Working with suppliers to ensure product availability within agreed service… Show more • Working within both an Irish and European supply chain team to optimise the supply of both HB & Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and Birds Eye frozen food to meet the customer requirements while maintaining optimum stock levels both at the Irish warehouse and the supplying factories across Europe.• Responsibilities of the position include:• Assessing demand plans and driving supply to meet the business unit needs.• Working with suppliers to ensure product availability within agreed service levels• Main contact to managing the relationship with 3rd party logistics provider with budget responsibility• Supply chain representative at brand/category team meetings• Active member of the New Product Development (NPD) process• Managing Obsolete stocks, packaging stock and ingredients stocks• Key User status in SAP system for supply planning including SAP APO, R3 and Business Warehouse• Regular user of the Oracle Sales Analyser application (OSA)• Maintaining a target level for stockholding while not effecting customer service Show less

National Institute for Transport and Logistics (NITL)Ireland’s centre of excellence in Supply Chain Management (SCM) provides supply chain knowledge and expertise to Irish business through the combined functions of Research, Education and Consulting. NITL’s aim is to develop the competitiveness of the Irish economy through supply chain excellence in Irish industry.Supply Chain Analyst (to the consultancy team) 2001 - 2005 • Working with senior consultants at the NITL on… Show more National Institute for Transport and Logistics (NITL)Ireland’s centre of excellence in Supply Chain Management (SCM) provides supply chain knowledge and expertise to Irish business through the combined functions of Research, Education and Consulting. NITL’s aim is to develop the competitiveness of the Irish economy through supply chain excellence in Irish industry.Supply Chain Analyst (to the consultancy team) 2001 - 2005 • Working with senior consultants at the NITL on various projects providing data collection, interrogation and analysis to support the supply chain development of many indigenous and multinational companies.• Experience of working with the sophisticated ‘Optrak’ vehicle routing software package utilised to develop distribution options for various major companies including Unilever Ireland and Cuisine de France. • Projects completed include experience with the following companies in the Supply Chain Management consultancy:• Indaver Ireland• Temperature Controlled Pharmaceuticals (TCP)• Masterfoods (Ice-Cream)• Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS)• United Dairy Farmers (UDF)• Loais County Council• Logistics Benchmarking Study in the ICT Sector Show less