Senior Manager - Demand Planning - Pharma

Sr. Manager Demand Planning

Forecasting/ Demand planning

- Analyze demand and develop consensus based demand forecast at lowest SKU level on a monthly basis. Forecast to be developed considering trending/statistical techniques, inputs from sales and marketing teams and alignment with long term financial plans

- Work closely with sales and marketing teams to ensure inconsistencies in the forecast are corrected in future to prevent any negative impact on customer replenishment or inventory

- Communicate the forecast to EPO teams as well as to the internal stakeholders

- Drive the affiliate monthly S&OP Monthly

Inventory planning :

- Co-ordinate with teams the inventory as per the demand forecast and in line with the inventory holding norms

- Conduct periodic inventory to identify & balance excess inventory, identify potential obsolescence and work with finance and sales for liquidating the same

Topline Controlling :

- Drive theTopline from a Demand / Supply Planning side for Plan, RLBEs and Actual with specific focus on forecast accuracy, variations, Price, Volume.

- Engage with the functional teams on variations based on appropriate MIS and landing expectation with options to mitigate the same.

Cross-functional support & Projects :

- Work closely and communicating effectively Commercial, Marketing and Finance teams on issues pertaining to inventory and drive initiatives to positively influence operating working capital

- Work on Misc. projects (like Global alignment projects, System developments ..)