Demand Planner

Responsibilities:

• Be the single point of contact for all operational aspects of demand, with links into the Supply organization.
• Demand Validation, verify demand volumes and ensure associated market intelligence is documented, working with MC commercial team.
• Handle product supply issues in collaboration with Site, Global Logistics and Commercial Team.
• Escalate to the Marketing Company Account Manager where there are potential issues/gaps for resolution and widely through the TIER process where required.
• Forecast quality metrics review and monitoring of supply chain parameter settings etc
• Effectively leading or supporting in Market pre- S&OP, S&OP and IBP meetings (as appropriate for the market) e.g. KPI reporting and analysis.
• Ensure there is an effective and efficient communication flow to appropriate Operations channels to support Marketing Company execution of life cycle management.
• Involvement in new product introductions (NPIs switches, divestments and acquisitions project teams.
• Manage ‘customer managed inventory’ (CMI) orders. Ensure there is alignment with the global planning cycle and APO/SAP planning requirements for all CMI-supplied products into their respective markets.
• Drive and deliver improvements in market and across the region, and manage improvement projects.
• Support Global Projects/ Initiatives as a key contributor.
• Apply the Lean principles and ways of working in daily activities.