Senior Manager Demand Planning and Strategic Projects

About Us:

Dyson is a global technology company with engineering research development manufacturing and testing operations in Singapore the UK Malaysia Mexico China and the Philippines. Having started in a coach house in the UK Dyson has consistently grown since it was established in 1993.

About The Role:

Reporting to the Market Managing Director this is a highly strategic and pivotal role for delivering India business ambition over the next few years. The role is expected to lead unbiased demand planning and sales plan sufficiency to maximize revenue of the company with Inventory addition this role will be leading all cross functional strategic initiatives in collaboration with all key stakeholders across India and region driving direct impact.

Main Accountabilities:

high quality Demand forecasting and drive consensus

• Lead monthly S&OP process across Market to drive consensus on forecast. Bring maturity and cadence in the S&OP / IBP process with drumbeat execution via the ERP systems
• Develop annual budget and rolling forecast to highlight the sufficiency gap of forecast vs targets and then lead offline retail and eCommerce teams to identify business plans to fill the gap
• Work with Off-line Retail & e-Commerce teams in Bottom-Up Sell-In / Sell-Out Forecast submission and ensure the overall business performance by week & month by channel by SKU to be unbiased and accurate
• Partner with regional & market teams to align forecasts with market trends and promotional activities. Cross functional collaboration from various stakeholders and aligning sign-offs for forecast submissions.
• Partner with supply chain team to build a resilient supply and demand plan to maximize topline and bottomline

• Establish and continuously improve KPIs such as forecast accuracy bias drive reduction in cost of inventories exchanges and therefore higher customer satisfaction

2. Strategic Initiatives & Projects

• Lead the identification evaluation and prioritization of strategic initiatives and projects inline with business priorities
• Be a strong partner with MD India on defining the market priorities vision and project manage them through execution
• Work with local and global stakeholders for alignment & seamless execution

About You:

• 10 years of rounded experience across sales marketing demand planning & project management
• Bachelors degree in business management or a related field; MBA strongly preferred
• Strong strategic thinking and solid execution ability
• Strong project management skills with ability to multi- task
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Strong team player (can both do team delegation and take personal task him/herself) and ability to work with cross functional partners and senior management on all aspects of the organizational and planning skills
• Ability to lead large scale projects in collaboration with multiple stakeholders
• Ability to work through ambiguity and project manage change

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds dont think alike and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race colour religion national or ethnic origin sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age disability protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.