AUXLY TORONTO – TORONTO, ON
About Auxly Cannabis Group Inc. (TSX: XLY)
We are a leading Canadian consumer packaged goods company in the cannabis products market, headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Our focus is on developing, manufacturing, and distributing branded cannabis products that delight wellness and recreational consumers. Our vision is to be a leader in branded cannabis products that deliver on our consumer promise of quality, safety, and efficacy.
About the role
We are currently seeking a Commercial Planning Analyst to join our team in Toronto, ON. Reporting to the Senior Manager Commercial Planning, this individual is responsible for leading customer inventory/external order management and Auxly sales depletions/shipments reporting agendas for their respective markets/customers. Your demonstrated ability to leverage data for optimizing customer inventories, through cross-functional collaboration with sales, supply, marketing, and innovation teams, is crucial for success.
Role Responsibilities
- Optimize customer inventory levels and provide recommended order quantities based on historical volumes, distribution and programming.
- Work with sales teams on optimizing product launch quantities based on competitive data.
- Support innovation forecasting process by working closely with Sales, Marketing, Demand Planning, Supply to help set and deliver corporate targets.
- Identify aged/excess inventory risks with sales/supply teams to develop action plan for mitigation.
- Support the routine and creation of reports and presentations required for customer meetings.
- Manage external relationships with key customer supply chain contacts to ensure proper information exchange, planning and execution relative to replenishment & customer inventory.
- Support reporting agenda via weekly update of shipments against targets while working collaboratively with sales on commentary and actions to executive teams on replenishment and depletions offtake.
- Liaise with Supply Chain team to monitor, review and consolidate inventory levels and PO accuracy.
- Provide weekly updates to the commercial team on upcoming launches, product changes, etc.
- Ad-hoc duties and special projects as required.
Requirements
- Post-Secondary education in Business, Economics, Computer Science, or related field
- 1 to 3 years experience in analytics, sales operations, customer supply chain, and/or commercial planning, preferably from within the Consumer Packaged Goods and/or Cannabis industry
- Advanced MS Excel and Powerpoint Knowledge. PowerBI knowledge preferred but not required.
- Strategic thinker: execute today and build for tomorrow
- Self motivated with the ability to work independently and resolve ambiguous situations without a pre-defined road map
- Demonstrated communication and presentation skills
- Strong analytical, planning, time management and organizational skills
- Knowledge of cannabis industry and regulations strongly preferred
