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About the Opportunity

• Direct enterprise-wide demand planning activities, ensuring forecasting practices support broader business and supply chain objectives.
• Build and maintain demand outlooks across near-term, annual, and multi-year planning horizons using analytical modeling, historical trends, and commercial insights.
• Establish forecasting frameworks, methodologies, and performance standards across multiple product categories.
• Evaluate market influences including customer demand patterns, economic conditions, pricing movements, and product portfolio changes.
• Develop scenario-based planning models to assess business risks, opportunities, and supply chain impacts.
• Serve as the primary resource for forecasting expertise and provide guidance to planning and analytics team members.
• Design and enhance predictive forecasting solutions utilizing statistical analysis, machine learning techniques, and advanced modeling tools.
• Integrate and analyze data from operational, sales, customer, and external market systems to identify emerging demand trends.
• Monitor forecast effectiveness through key performance indicators and implement continuous improvement initiatives.
• Create executive reporting tools and analytical dashboards that support strategic and operational decision-making.
• Investigate causes of forecast variation and recommend actions to improve predictability and reduce volatility.
• Lead demand planning activities within the Sales & Operations Planning process, ensuring alignment across commercial and operational teams.
• Facilitate collaboration among Finance, Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Supply Chain stakeholders to achieve forecast consensus.
• Convert demand projections into actionable recommendations for production scheduling, inventory positioning, and procurement planning.
• Support leadership teams with revenue projections, business scenarios, and long-range planning insights.
• Partner with commercial teams to incorporate promotional activity, product launches, customer behavior, and market intelligence into forecasting models.
• Work closely with manufacturing, inventory, and sourcing functions to balance service levels, capacity constraints, and inventory investments.
• Champion modernization initiatives involving planning systems, analytics platforms, and process automation.
• Assist with the implementation and optimization of enterprise planning technologies, including ERP and forecasting applications.
• Develop documentation, process standards, and training resources to strengthen organizational planning capabilities.
• Identify opportunities to streamline workflows through automation and digital solutions.

About You:

• Degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Business, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in demand planning, forecasting, supply chain analytics, or business planning roles.
• Strong background leading cross-functional planning cycles and S&OP processes.
• Experience working with enterprise planning systems such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, JD Edwards, or similar platforms.
• Demonstrated success implementing or managing forecasting, analytics, or planning technologies.
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate complex data into actionable business recommendations.

This position for employment is for a current vacancy with Highspring’s client. You must currently reside within the Greater Toronto Area and be permitted to work in Canada to be considered for this opportunity. A recruiter will be in touch with you if your profile meets our client’s requirements for this role.

By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco by Highspring the exclusive right to present you as a candidate for the foregoing position. Additionally, you agree to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. Lastly, you also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco by Highspring about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco by Highspring agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.

Vaco by Highspring values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of colour, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply. The company is also committed to ensuring that persons who need them are provided with reasonable accommodations; if one is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact HR@vaco.com .

Vaco by Highspring respects your privacy and is committed to providing transparent notice of our policies in English here and in French here. Additionally, the company uses AI to perform preliminary screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase will be conducted by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco/Highspring does not know and cannot opine on if its client’s use of AI products in hiring.

Pay Transparency Notice

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

• the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
• licensure and certification requirements;
• office location and other geographic considerations;
• other business and organizational needs.

Having said that Vaco by Highspring believes that the salary range referenced reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses and/or participation in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company’s retirement plan (or similar retirement benefits).