Demand Planning Consultant (US Farm Animal)

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets.

At Elanco, we are driven by our vision of Food and Companionship Enriching Life and our purpose – all to Go Beyond for Animals, Customers, Society and Our People.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment.

We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success.

Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

Your Role:

The US Farm Animal Demand Planner role provides modeling and enrichment support to the Integrated Business Planner Lead, US, to achieve a quality financial and demand forecast for critical brands for the US Farm Animal team.

The US Farm Animal Demand Planner must provide continuity and market expertise for brand managers, and challenge assumptions based on broader knowledge.

This individual must work closely with Brand managers, category leaders, supply chain, and finance as applicable to incorporate demand information, and manage the Demand Planning program at the Affiliate level.

Your Responsibilities:


* Performs a consistent evaluation of new forecasting and complex analysis techniques, tools, and data sources to improve outputs.


* Partner closely with US Farm Animal leadership to ensure implementation of the overall forecasting vision to enhance forecast accuracy, and development and implementation of additional analytical capabilities.


* Interact with sales, marketing, finance, and supply chain leadership to understand demand forecast drivers and present relevant findings to senior leadership when required.

Strong interpersonal skills are also essential to effectively interact with all teams, areas, and levels of business affecting the forecast process.


* Maintain an environment open to change and innovation, achieving improvements in existing tools and anticipating innovative technologies to deliver best in class forecasting and to maximize effectiveness.


* Demonstrate and develop the ability to influence across the organization, regardless of stakeholder relationship.


* Maintain demand planning metrics per IBP (Integrated Business Planning) standards and make available for demand planning review and commercial teams.


* Integrate feedback from Demand Reviews, Integrated Reconciliation Reviews (IRR) and Monthly Business Reviews (MBRs) as necessary.


* Maintain and support demand planning activity.  This task includes, but not limited to, the following:
+ Stewardship and accountability of maintaining the “US Farm Animal Master Forecast File....