Demand Planning Assistant Manager
7 months ago
**Job Title**:Demand Planning Assistant Manager
**Location**:Jeddah, KSA
**About Unilever**:
Every Day, Around the World, People Reach for Unilever Products. Our Brands Are Trusted Everywhere And, By Listening to The People Who Buy Them, We've Grown into One of The World's Most Successful Consumer Goods Companies. In Fact, 150 Million Times A Day, Someone Somewhere Chooses a Unilever Product.
Look in Your Fridge, Or on The Bathroom Shelf, And You’re Bound to See One of Our Well-Known Brands. We Create, Market and Distribute the Products That People Choose to Feed Their Families and Keep Themselves and Their Homes Clean and Fresh.
**JOB PURPOSE**:
The Demand Planning Assistant Manager will lead a team of Demand Planners responsible for the development of the 12-24 month rolling sales forecast for their category’s portfolio. This individual will provide guidance and support to several cross-functional teams through the monthly S&OP cycle with the objective of creating a realistic forecast and documenting any risks and opportunities. Communication of volume changes and main drivers throughout the E2E supply chain is also a critical element of the role. The Assistant DP Manager will drive the implementation of new SO&P tools, processes, and reports in partnership with Demand Planning Excellence to ensure ongoing continuous improvement.
The Demand Planning Assistant Manager will also lead Promotion Planner responsible for development and tracking execution of the promotions of the category from our factories and logistics teams. This individual will also play a critical role in identifying business risks and leading crisis management when necessary and ensuring the appropriate business tradeoffs are evaluated and plans are developed to protect business priorities and accelerate recovery.
This position is key to achieving category KPI targets in many areas
- forecast bias/accuracy, customer service, working capital, business waste and overall cost. The Demand Planning Assistant Manager will act as a key business partner in monthly S&OP processes that are executed in close cooperation with Marketing, Sales, Finance and Category Management.
**MAIN ACCOUNTABILITIES**
**1. Demand Planning Process**:
- Own the forecast in any of the S&OP meetings (monthly cycle) and in the weekly operational meetings.
- Build the activities (that are over and above the baselines) provided by the Sales & Marketing teams.
- Maintain an assumptions tracker that would be used to evaluate the performance of the activity and challenge volumes going forward.
- Present the exceptions in the activity meeting and facilitate the process of reaching consensus on the final agreed unconstrained demand.
- Minute all the forecast changes that take place in any forum to ensure all stakeholders are aligned.
- Upload agreed unconstrainted demand in APO, ensuring Master Data related to each product is maintained on system to ensure accurate data flow.
- Send finance a constrained plan basis the demand and supply reconciliation output.
**2. Manage Promotion Planning process**
- Communicate the most updated promotion plan with the relevant sales, marketing, supply planning, customer service and logistics teams.
- Work with Customer Service and logistics team to ensure stocks availability in all markets and to develop scenarios to mitigate supply gaps (if any) through demand adjustments.
- Work with Sales team on promotion plan to ensure best availability.
**3. Communication with Extended Supply Chain**
- Communicate the most updated demand plan with the relevant supply planning and customer service teams.
- Work with Customer Service team to ensure stocks availability in all markets and to develop scenarios to mitigate supply gaps (if any) through demand adjustments.
**4. Continuous Improvement**
- Analyze forecast accuracy and bias to identify and implement process enhancements to improve these KPI’s.
- Present the KPI’s to the Category team in order to find ways to improve them.
- Champion the development of changes to current processes
- Coach the Category team on forecasting techniques to facilitate discussions while simultaneously improving KPIs.
**6. Team Management**
- Develop and manage development plan of the team members.
- Coach team member to achieve best results.
**KEY REQUIREMENTS**
- Analytical and critical thinking
- Adaptable to changes in a fast-pasted environment.
- Challenger to the status quo
- Bias for action and proactivity
- Excellent communication skills
**Relevant Experience**:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Supply Chain, or relative field.
- At least 3 years of Supply Chain operations experience.
- Previous people leadership will be highly beneficial.
- Exposure to Supply Planning, Order to Cast, procure to pay cycle.
- Proficient in MS Office (knowledge of SAP, APO and R-studio is a plus).
- CPIM or CSCP certification is a plus.
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