Demand Planner - KSA
Demand Planner - KSA
- To provide the business with robust volume forecast which will improve the accuracy of Sales forecasts, optimize resources, align inventory levels with peaks & troughs in demand, and enhance profitability of all product ranges.
- Pivotal link between the Sales, Marketing, Finance and Operations teams in support of growths
- Effectively manage Demand process in the monthly S&OP Cycle.
Was wir erwarten
- Responsible for managing end to end sales forecasting process for all customers/countries B2C customers and B2B customers, within Opco with links to internal S&OP processes and with various supply points (11 supply points).
- Key member in Business Team from Supply Chain liaising with other Commercial, Sales and Financial counter parts on country wise product growth and on New Product Developments.
Knowledge & Skills
- Knowledge of Supply Chain Operations & Customer Service.
- Ability to work independently and as a team member cross functionally.
- Advance and on-hand experience in utilizing ERP systems (APO or OMP…etc)
- Advance and on-hand experience in utilizing Power BI
- Advance and hands on knowledge of statistical forecasting and baseline generation.
- Strong mathematical skills & strong organization skills.
- Ability to work across functions and influence other through data analysis and logic.
- High degree of numeracy and comfortable working with and manipulating data.
Was wir bieten
At FrieslandCampina, you'll immerse yourself in a unique, globally connected culture, where collaboration with colleagues across all our businesses is part of daily life. Alongside a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package, we’re dedicated to your ongoing development, offering abundant opportunities for hands-on learning. Our informal, friendly environment fosters teamwork with passionate professionals who share your drive for excellence. At FrieslandCampina, we empower you with the autonomy and confidence to make a meaningful impact — helping to nourish the world while advancing your career.
Stellenbeschreibung
Key Responsibilities:
- Work with Demand Planning Manager to manage various sales forecasting processes, monitor and assess effectiveness of those processes and drive continuous improvements.
- Develop demand forecasts (operational & tactical forecasts) at multiple levels of aggregation (by customer and by SKU) for multiple time horizons (up to 24 months / 105 weeks) as part of demand planning process.
- Maintain demand forecast with horizon of minimum 24 months at customer and SKU level in ERP System
- Review historical sales trends, research on demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop statistical demand forecast templates and evaluate the forecast results, generate baseline forecast with seasonality trends.
- Drive and Challenge building blocks & activities in the Activity review and Pre-Demand meetings.
- Key role in cross-functional activities to reconcile significant variances in demand and to refine demand to reflect all updated sales and marketing assumptions and any capacity or supply constrains from various supply points.
- Interact with sales and marketing team to understand the drivers affecting monthly demand forecast.
- Utilize a collaborative and consensus approach by working with sales and marketing teams to obtain and ensure the latest and accurate information has gone into the monthly forecasts.
- Develop and maintain a Demand Planning Tool/Model for capturing secondary forecast, distributor inventory, orders at port, orders at sea and orders in pipeline to conclude in primary sales forecast at customer and SKU level.
- Collaborate with customer service team on visibility of distributor inventory to ensure the agreed safety stock norms are maintained; manage distributor inventory levels in case of any capacity/supply constraints, product phase-in or phase-outs, etc.
- Monitor volume performance against primary and secondary forecast and provide analysis on variances.
- Provide challenge to sales team on their base, promotional and NPD assumptions to ensure delivery of secondary forecast.
Implement and achieve forecast accuracy targets & inventory targets.
Review current Primary and secondary forecast and suggest amendments to future forecast/mechanics.
- Influence and support sales team to improve their forecast accuracy by detailed accuracy and bias Loss analysis and RCA (root cause analysis) to understand the drivers and place corrective actions and mitigations to improve the forecast accuracy and bias KPIs
Bei FrieslandCampina glauben wir an ein Arbeitsumfeld, in dem alle Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter sich selbst treu bleiben und sich gestärkt fühlen, ihr Potential vollständig zu entfalten.
Wir akzeptieren Unterschiede und begrüßen Bewerbungen unabhängig von Geschlechtern, Religion, Rasse, sexueller Orientierung, Alter, Behinderungen oder Nationalitäten.
Wenn das, was wir sind, zu dir passt, bewirb dich gerne, auch wenn du möglicherweise nicht alle Anforderungen der Rolle vollständig erfüllst.
Details zum Team
Alle Kollegen auf LinkedIn anzeigenTeile diese Stelle
1
/
JOB-ID: 59894 |
Demand Planner - KSA,
Saudi Arabia