Your Tasks- Own S&OP, promotional, new product, and baseline demand forecasting, incorporating customer activities, distribution changes, and marketing support.
- Adjust short-term forecasts weekly based on actual sales and service levels to provide the most accurate demand plan for Supply Planning.
- Participate in annual sales meetings and Sales Roll-Ups to gather market intelligence and refine forecasts.
- Act as the key link between Commercial and Supply Chain teams, providing data-driven insights and challenging assumptions to build accurate and executable demand plans.
- Align demand forecasts with financial, sales, marketing, and S&OP consensus plans to support business growth objectives.
- Partner with Supply Planning through the BAP process to identify stock shortage risks and develop action plans that maximize service levels at the lowest cost.
- Maintain planning systems and master data, including history corrections, product phase-in/phase-out management, and forecast profile assignments.
- Manage LOR (Left Over Report) reduction initiatives with VAS and CoE teams to minimize waste and financial loss.
Forecasting & S&OP- Lead OMP Demand Planning activities and present forecast data during monthly S&OP meetings to drive consensus and business decisions.
- Collaborate with Sales and Marketing to reconcile forecasts using large and complex datasets.
- Manage and maintain:
- Statistical Forecast enrichment using market and customer insights.
- New Product Forecasting, with full ownership of launch demand plans.
- Launch volume assumptions, considering seasonality, displays, samples, and activation plans.
- VAS promotions and promotional forecasting to accurately identify promotional uplift.
Inventory & Supply Management- Deliver the most accurate demand forecast to support inventory optimization and financial targets.
- Analyze forecast performance metrics and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
- Partner with CoE, Analytics, Customer Service, Sales, and Marketing teams to resolve forecast changes, mitigate supply risks, and reduce lost sales.
- Support stock allocation decisions and prioritization during supply constraints.
- Provide guidance on strategic launch safety stock levels.
- Manage critical stock, Deval, and closeout processes.
- Support relaunch activities, material determination requests, and product exit processes.
Continuous Improvement- Facilitate forecast alignment with Demand Analysts.
- Identify process improvement opportunities and implement best practices across functions.
- Manage eCommerce demand complexity and forecast volatility.
- Develop subject matter expertise and support organizational capability building.
Change Management & Leadership- Drive and support change initiatives, including new tools, processes, and ways of working.
- Demonstrate adaptability, resilience, and the ability to align stakeholders through change.
- Balance short-term business priorities with long-term transformation objectives.
Behavior & Mindset- Proactive, solution-oriented, and accountable.
- Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Effective collaborator with high emotional intelligence.
- Comfortable managing competing priorities and ambiguity.
- Demonstrates ownership, urgency, and a continuous improvement mindset.
Your Profile- MBA, preferably with a specialization in Supply Chain Management, with a minimum of 4+ years of experience in demand planning, sales forecasting, or comprehensive end-to-end supply chain operations
- Expertise, ideally in a Consumer Package Goods Industry
- Must have experience effectively collaborating and influencing others
- Must posses excellent analytical skills as well as strong interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
- Experience in project management required
- Must have strong knowledge of supply chain concepts, including how demand/supply planning impacts other areas of the business
- Must be able to work independently in a fast paced, lean organization and be very organized and detail oriented
- Must have experience achieving cost efficiency KPIs
- Must have OMP demand planning software experience
- Experience utilizing ERP software such as SAP and Business Intelligence a plus
- Experience with statistical forecasting programs is highly preferred
- Proficiency in MS Office and Power BI is required
- Must be able to travel abroad for training, seminars and projects
The Demand Planner owns and delivers an accurate, data-driven demand forecast across baseline, promotional, and new product activities, continuously refining plans based on market performance and insights.
Acting as a critical and collaborative link between Commercial and Supply Chain, the role leads demand inputs into the S&OP process, ensuring alignment with financial, sales, and marketing plans to support business growth objectives.
This highly engaged, motivated, and business-oriented individual thrives in a dynamic environment, embraces change, and proactively contributes to cross-functional collaboration-driving forecast improvements, managing supply risks, and optimizing inventory and service performance
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