Role Purpose:
To lead the end-to-end demand planning process by developing accurate and reliable daily, weekly, monthly, and annual S&OP Process across all channels, regions, and product hierarchies, to ensure alignment between Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Sales, Finance, and relevant stakeholders
Job Accountabilities
- Develop and maintain weekly, monthly, and annual demand forecasts by channel, region, location, SKU, size, and flavors.
- Lead the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) cycle.
- Support SAP performance, diagnostics, auditing, and improvement across supply chain functions
- Analyze historical demand data, market trends, seasonality, promotions, and new product launches to build robust demand plans.
- Apply and continuously refine statistical forecasting models and demand planning tools.
- Monitor CFR, OOS, Cancellations, Deletions, and other KPIs performance and continuously improve.
- Align demand plans with sales ambitions, marketing initiatives, financial budgets, and supply constraints.
- Ensure demand plans are realistic, feasible, and aligned with production capacity and inventory policies.
- Identify and monitor slow-moving and obsolete (SLOB) items, highlighting risks and recommending corrective actions.
- Track demand risks, gaps, and opportunities, escalating issues proactively.
- Prepare and present forecast assumptions, scenarios, and risks to management and S&OP forums.
Education
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain, Business Administration, Economics, Engineering, Statistics, or related field
Qualification & Experience
- 58 years of experience in Demand Planning, Supply Chain Planning, or Commercial Planning
- Proven experience in SAP implementation, auditing, problem-solving, and execution
- Proven experience in multi-SKU, multi-channel FMCG environments
- Hands-on involvement in S&OP cycles and executive reviews
- Exposure to forecasting at SKU / size / flavor level is strongly preferred
