Manager - Demand Planning - FMCG/Chemicals Industry

Manager Demand Planning

Job Purpose:

- To lead and forecast product demand for the business so as to enable smooth planning of product supply.

- Collaboration with internal stakeholders like divisional planners, Sales & Marketing teams for identification of new demand drivers to help improve forecast accuracy.

- Continuous analyses and review of forecasting parameters and modelling changes.

- Review and analyses of causal variables participating in forecasting process.

- Develop and maintain intelligent dashboards & reports to help stake holders unearth actionable insights.

- Initiate / Support different analytics initiatives in forecasting, Logistics & beyond.

- Create an agile demand planning system suitable for a new organization

- Build data intelligence and insights to create a robust planning output

- Work with the sales and marketing team to build the input data ground up which feeds into the analytics

- Build the forecast data factoring the seasonality and geogrpahical nuances

- Seek market trends thru direct team and the S&M teams which will be used to predict shifts and prepare for the same