1K Kirana Bazaar - Manager - Demand Planning - IIM/NITIE/FMS/MDI

Roles and Responsibilities:

- Leads monthly S&OP meetings with Sales Teams/Category team/operations team.

- Use current and historical sales information, market trends, customer forecasts to develop a rolling demand plan.

- Adherence to the S&OP best practices and coordination with Sales, BU, SCM to ensure on time Consensus Demand Planning release to financial planning.

- Establish Key learnings that would be taken forward to next S&OP cycle.

- Work to create open lines of communication with the Sales Team and Key Customer Accounts.

- Coordinate the Event Execution Process with all stakeholders to ensure on time event execution and alignment of demand plan with event calendar.

- Exception management by analyzing demand deviations to optimize cost, service, freshness and responsiveness across the value chain.

- Weekly tracking of MBP plan & Actual Sales for A class SKUs by Customer.

- Weekly tracking and improvement in % of Orders shipped Vs Orders received.

- Responsible for ensuring all master data required to perform statistical forecasts exist.

Qualifications and Skills:

- Should have done an MBA from a Tier-1 college.

- Should have an experience of 4-6 years in demand planning

- Experience in working with fast hyper-competitive, agile business environments.

- Candidates with FMCG background are preferred.

- Should be excellent in Advance Excel, SQL and Python.