The key responsibilities of the Demand Planning Manager are:
- Leading a team of Demand Planners who together:
- Manage service level for the country/MSU.
- Improve Forecast accuracy & Forecast bias.
- Identify & resolve service risks with escalation to the Central Planning for decision-making in case of stock shortages.
- Communicate product availability (including NPDs) vs demand to Customer Service.
- Monitor slow moving and potentially obsolete stocks & propose improvement actions for approval by Central Planning.
- Executes local S&OP Demand meetings.
- Service: Ensure that agreed target weekly service levels are achieved for the MSU
- Improve Forecast Accuracy & Forecast bias
- Identifying & resolving service risks.
- Talent management: focus on people development and consistently improve the capabilities of the team of Demand Planners.
- Evaluate external customer satisfaction define and implement improvement activities based on these results.
Qualifications :
Must have:
- Experience or potential to lead a team of 6-10 people;
- Highly analytical and accurate;
- Minimum 5 years Supply Chain planning experience;
- Experienced with SAP APO;
- Good communication skills and capable of influencing others;
- Eager to take ownership and initiative;
- Results driven;
- Good English & local language
- FMCG experience
- University degree or bachelor degree & equivalent work experience.
Additional Information :
#li-hybrid
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time