Wella - Demand Planning Manager

ABOUT THE WELLA COMPANY :

Together, WE enable individuals to look, feel, and be their true selves.

Wella Company is one of the world's leading beauty companies, comprised of a family of iconic brands such as Wella Professionals, Clairol, OPI, Nioxin and ghd. With 6,000 employees globally, presence in over 100 countries, Wella Company and its brands enable consumers to look, feel, and be their true selves. As innovators in the hair and nail industry, Wella Company empowers its people to delight consumers, inspire beauty professionals, engage communities, and deliver sustainable growth to its stakeholders.

For additional information about the Wella Company please visit www.wellacompany.com

THE ROLE :

The Demand Planning Manager needs to ensure effective demand planning for the organisation, ensuring the right demand is updated in the system. Drive the monthly S&OP processes across stakeholders to drive short and long-term consensus and constrained forecast. Drive the replenishment planning with Global DRP team for supply planning and availability. This role cuts across all brands of Wella India and the incumbent is expected to work effectively with the local and global cross functional teams daily.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :

- Run monthly rolling forecasting for planning horizon and work closely with Sales and Brand teams to arrive at Consensus Forecast, update consensus forecast in system for supply planning

- Supply feasibility of the consensus forecast and constrained demand plan

- Forecast Planning co-ordination with Sales, marketing and Order Management team

- Root causing of KPIs and action planning, create and drive continuous improvement of world-class demand planning and Sales and Operations Planning(S&OP) processes.

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

- Review and provide feedbacks on replenishment plans to global DRP teams to plan stock replenishment from Global DCs and ensuring stock availability and fill rates

- Review and work with global initiative planners for PIPO transitions and initiatives execution

- Ensures NPD delivery through monitoring and review

- Responsible to ensure all master data required to perform statistical forecast exist

- Work with global planning team to ensure planning parameters (like lead time, safety stocks etc) are correct and updated

KEY REQUIREMENTS :

- Has relevant experience of 3-5 years, preferably in FMCG industry post MBA

- MBA in Supply Chain Management from a premier institute

- Experience in driving S&OP process

- Excellent communication and collaborative skills

- Has worked in SAP, Microsoft Excel and demand planning tools

EEO OPPORTUNITIES :

We offer equal employment opportunity to qualified individuals without regard to race, religion, colour, national origin, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We strongly believe that cultivating a diverse workplace gives a company strength. The combination of unique skills, abilities, experiences, and backgrounds creates an environment that produces extraordinary results.