The role of Demand Planner is a pivotal position within our organization, responsible for ensuring the effective management of demand and supply planning processes. The successful candidate will be expected to develop and maintain highly collaborative relationships with commercial and marketing organizations to ensure accurate transmission of demand requirements to supply planning.
Demand Planning and S&OP Process
* Develop and manage market demand plans over the planning horizon to identify trends, event scenarios, issues, and corrective actions through demand analysis, demand scenarios, reconciliation with financials, and commercial collaboration.
* Accountable for running and evolving the market-level S&OP process and ensuring the scope of S&OP performance metrics is met.
* Owner of the forecasting tool for the defined scope, including all data inputs per the update cycles.
* Primary Supply Chain point of contact for markets in their area of responsibility.
Inventory Management
* Manage inventory strategy defined by SCH Lead for their scope, partnering closely with the Supply Planning team to ensure alignment of metrics and efficiency of the proposal.
* Ensure the rightsizing and efficiency of finished goods inventory for Business Units/Markets assigned based on inventory strategy.
Life Cycle Management
* Actively manage the Business Unit product portfolio, coordinate new product launches, and end-of-life activities.
* Accountable for systems being aligned during launch and discontinuation processes.
This role requires strong analytical skills, business acumen, and excellent communication and collaboration skills. The ideal candidate will have experience in SAP IBP and be able to work independently on complex issues. They must be able to travel up to 15% of the time, both domestically and internationally.