Manager - Demand Planning - FMCG

Manager - Demand Planning - FMCG

Role and 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.

- Ageing analysis and sales return analysis.

- Facilitate planning & distribution of Promotion, New Product launches by continuously monitoring & following up with all the stake holders

- Effective left-over management and follow Phase in -Phase out process

- Distribution Requirement Planning - Analyze forecast received from Sales team & historical trend and accordingly allocate stocks to all the hubs within the country in constrained/excess supply scenario. Continuous monitoring & replenishment of hubs as per agreed stock norms of SKU's