Manager - Demand Planning

Manager - Demand Planning

Main purpose of the role:

- Ensures effective Demand Management for the organization, ensuring that the right unconstrained demand gets ploughed into the Supply chain system for both short and medium term for specific brand groups.

- Drive the S&OP process which ensures that surprises are minimized, and organization's plans are on track to ensure ABP delivery.

- Co-ordinate with different stockholders (Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain) for pre-S&OP discussion

Successful performance requires:

- Strong analytical & innovative skills

- Strong bend towards data analytics and science

- Hands on with statistical analysis tool

- Collaborative mind-set

- Excellent skills in MS-Excel

- Good interpersonal skills.

Detailed Responsibilities:

- Ensuring conduct of monthly S&OP to ensure convergence of plans to deliver ABP for the organization.

- Work with Regional Managers, Marketing, SDM and National Supply Planning to balance demand and capabilities and ensure creation of alternate plans to protect ABP delivery.

- Ensure the complete collaboration across functions to converge to a single set of operating plans for the planning horizon (12 months rolling)

- Run Causal forecasts and work with Regional Sales and Brand to arrive at Consensus Forecast for the planning horizon.

- Highlighting and bring to a closure along with Head planning the risk in demand in case of conflict due to supply constraints or any other factor.

- Utilize available technology to manage stat forecast and causal forecast to support a robust forecasting process.

- Review Weekly performance of demand vs actual and course correct demands for supporting supply chain objectives.

- Drive Forecast Accuracy improvement in the organization through the right combination of people capability development, analytics, and diagnostics to ensure best in class performance on this metric. Forecast Accuracy - by EAN, SKU and Depot level.

- Facilitate the Category Supply planners for right decision making and prioritization during constraint situations to prioritize customers / accounts for maximizing sales.

- Ensures NPD delivery through monitoring and review.