One of our Clients is looking for Demand Planning Manager for the following role.
POSITION TITLE
Demand Planning Manager
POSITION BASED IN
UAE
CLIENT'S DETAIL
MNC FMCG
GENDER
Equal Opportunity Employer
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION / EXPERIENCE
· Post graduate degree along with 7- 10 years of exposure at least with a proven track record in marketing and sales within the FMCG industry.
· Experience on Production related area
· Excellent in written and spoken English/Arabic
· Trained on general Safety standards
· Hands on MS Excel & Power point
· GCC MARKET EXPSOURE - Preferred
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
· Develop demand planning function for the company and provide the central demand planning function with monthly updated market demand signal from business unit markets aggregated to a categegory level according to the company demand planning process requirement.
· Integrate central events (new product launches and promotions) into baseline forecast to update the operational forecast within the planning horizon and according to related functions agreed plans.
· Provide demand planning analysis by required level of detial (i.e. sku, brand, category, market, channel, business unit) from available reporting database based on the agreed forecast & planned activity. Also provide the company with required demand planning KPI’s as per agreed definitions.
· Maintain the baseline for all SKU’s in the category and validate the top 30 SKU’’S more specifically.
· Develop Demand Planning Sheets for the company.
· Maintain rolling 13 weeks plus 9 months Forecast.
· Ensures that live list of SKU and valid SKU mix is always used in DP sheets for the category.
· Weekly/Channel split validation.
· Clear forecast assumptions.
· To have an update for the promotions affecting demand planning.
· Provide a weekly update to the markets with promotions shipment plans.
· Forecast validation & ensuring those activities are valid & accounted for in the forecast.
· Be the sole responsible person to change & update the forecast for the category.
· Responsible for updating the forecast in all types of meeting such as S&OP.
· Ensure that all sales drives are planned.
· Provide analysis related to promotions.
· Monitor weekly performance of sales against Forecast.
· Highlight risks related to markets due to deviation from plans, stock unavailability by monitoring stock levels at each market and shipment plan.
· A core member in the new products forecasting, ensures that innovations & relaunches are incorporated in the forecast.
· Validations of Run down & Run up plans.
· Active involvement with market teams to improve forecast inaccuracy and bias related issues in demand forecast.
· Support the Supply planning team in terms of providing full details of weekly split of demand.
· Lead SKU rationalization – support marketing function to rationalize the SKU’s portfolio.
· Support continuous improvement of ERP system.
Please send your resume at Farrukh.siddiqui@eswpak.com / jobs@eswpak.com before 15th September 2010 in WORD FORMAT .Incomplete or Irrelevant CVs will not be entertained. Please mark the title of the designation and the preferred city applying for in the Subject line