McCormick & Company, Inc., a global leader in the spice, flavor, and seasonings industry, is seeking a full-time Supply Chain Planner II- Demand on a NA Supply Planning team. This new hire will work in the Global Headquarters, located at 24 Schilling Rd in Hunt Valley, MD. The Supply Chain Planner II- Supply will report to a Director, Planning & Logistics.

McCormick & Company, Incorporated is a global leader in flavor with approximately 13,000 employees worldwide. As a Fortune 500 company with over $5 billion in annual sales across 160 countries and territories, we manufacture, market, and distribute spices, seasoning mixes, condiments, and other flavorful products to the entire food industry including e-commerce, retail,food manufacturers and foodservice businesses. Our most popular brands include McCormick, French's, Frank's RedHot, Stubb's, OLD BAY, Lawry's, Zatarain's, Ducros, Vahiné, Cholula, Schwartz, Kamis, DaQiao, Club House, Aeroplane, and Gourmet Garden. Every day, no matter where or what you eat or drink, you can enjoy food flavored by McCormick. Our Purpose is "To Stand Together for the Future of Flavor and our Vision is "A World United by Flavor—where healthy, sustainable and delicious go hand in hand."

As a company recognized for its exceptional commitment to employees, McCormick offers a wide variety of benefits, programs, and services. Benefits include, but are not limited to, tuition assistance, medical, dental, vision, disability, group life insurance, 401(k), profit sharing, paid holidays, and vacations.

Position Overview

This position will facilitate the demand review (assigned portfolio) of the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process by working cross-functionally to develop and communicate the most accurate, unbiased demand plan for the supply chain. Facilitate dialogue regarding opportunities and risks to cross-functional teams including senior leadership. Drive and leverage continuous improvement solutions to streamline processes, improve forecast accuracy and create supply chain efficiencies.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and participate in the demand review process to develop monthly volume forecasts for rolling 24 months, driving alignment to the best operational demand plan highlighting opportunities and risks.
• Collaborate with Marketing, Sales and Finance to understand and leverage all impacts to the forecast, including promotions, seasonality and customer behavior.
• Responsible for maintenance of statistical algorithms within SAP, adjusting historical patterns and future projections.
• Interprets complex data to provide analysis, forecast perspective and conclusions in a meaningful format to influence future assumptions.
• Maintain scorecard data to monitor and optimize forecast performance on an on-going basis.
• Drive continuous improvement by analyzing current processes and implementing refined and new methodologies, tools and techniques to reduce effort and improve results.
• Works closely with supply planning and customer supply chain planning to understand constraints/issues, escalating forecast changes

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business or related field
• 5 years experience in Supply Chain Planning, Logistics, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance, Customer Service or related field
• Experience with ERP (SAP/APO/SNP/PPDS Optimizer) & Advanced Planning Systems or comparable ERP system

• Advanced user of MS Excel. Proficiency Access, PowerPoint, Word, Tableau

• Solid knowledge of CPG Industry and Mc Branded & Private Label products within the industry

McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

As a general policy, McCormick does not offer employment visa sponsorships upon hire or in the future.