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Demand Planner - Surrey Central Campus Supply Chain / Procurement

Organization:
BC Hydro
Region:
Canada, British Columbia, Surrey
End of contest:
July 25, 2019
  This job posting has expired
Type:
Full time
Category:
Supply chain
Description
Posting ID BCH-R-0080-190710E1

Duties:
* Establishes inventory demand levels for assigned client groups by: attending regular and adhoc business planning meetings with stakeholders; collecting, consolidating and validating clients' material needs; analyzing forecasting plans against actual supply to identify variances; developing material demand and supply plans; and preparing and presenting explanations and recommendations on demand and supply availability to stakeholders.
* Develops and maintains strong relationships with internal staff (Purchasing, Category Management and Material Supply Planning groups) and external suppliers to understand purchasing processes and procedures, vendor relationships, their performance measures and how to incorporate forecasting needs for effective inventory management.
* Provides stipulations, guidelines, and recommendations for negotiations to Purchasing, Contract Management, Material Supply Planning and Category Management, applying strategic knowledge of demand patterns and long term projected material needs.
* Engages third party contractors (such as Regionally Optimized Contracts (ROC) and civil contractors) representing Material Management Business Unit (MMBU) and BC Hydro to ensure that BC Hydro meets it commitments to these parties for supply accuracy and service reliability.
* Prepares and maintains Demand Planning Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
* Develops annual purchasing plan by incorporating client groups' material needs using statistical modelling, commodity and category identifier trending reports, supplier capacity and manufacturing schedules and economic trends that impact commodities purchased.
* Identifies and recommends improvements to supply chain processes, procedures and guidelines to management. Provides input into operational issues, impact of corporate initiatives and market constraints relating to purchasing and supply of materials.
* May procure materials from known or sourced suppliers where material requirements are of low to medium value by performing such duties as writing competitive documents, evaluating responses to competitive bids and conducting reference checks and financial evaluations. Negotiates penalties, incentives, key performance indicators (KPIs) and early payment discounts for contracts. Prepares and processes material requests/requisitions in PassPort.
* May perform some duties of the Material Supply Planner.
* Performs duties of a minor nature related to the above duties that do not affect the rating of the job.

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Contact

BC Hydro

6911 Southpoint Drive

Burnaby

Colombie-Britannique Canada

www.bchydro.com


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