Sr Demand Planner

What you'll do:

Role Overview: The Senior Demand Planner will be responsible for leading the demand planning process, ensuring the creation of accurate and robust demand forecasts, and driving continuous improvement in demand planning practices. This role requires a strategic mindset, strong analytical skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Key Responsibilities:
• Develop and maintain a demand plan, incorporating statistical baseline forecasts, market intelligence, and qualitative adjustments.
• Lead the analysis of historical trends to generate accurate forecasts, identifying trends in fast and slow-moving products, and maintaining seasonality trends.
• Manage and monitor demand planning KPIs at the network level, including Forecast Accuracy, Bias, and Stability.
• Develop and manage a standardized approach to root cause analysis of top errors across the network, ensuring subsequent forecast corrections are documented and validated appropriately.
• Actively participate in weekly S&OE meetings, aligning short-term demand plans with SIOP plans.
• Integrate scenario planning into demand reviews, incorporating risks and opportunities to ensure demand plans are based on live information.
• Engage with Finance, Sales, Marketing, and Strategic Business Unit leaders to evaluate forecasts versus actual sales (volume, trends, and mix).
• Collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders from portfolio and supply planning steps in SIOP to fine-tune the demand plan.
• Present demand plan outputs in relevant Network and SIOP team reviews.
• Proactively study SIOP and S&OE best practices and collaborate with global stakeholders to improve supply and demand relationships.
• Support functional vision by working closely with cross-functional team members, Functional Managers, and Program Managers.

Qualifications:

Any graduate (Master's degree preferred)

7 to 10 years of relevant experience in the Supply Chain out of which a minimum of 7 years in SIOP/S&OP and Demand Planning.

Skills:

• Proficient skills level in MS Office: Advanced Excel and Power Point presentations.
• Proficient in planning tools like Kinaxis, Demantra, Forecast Pro, Demand Solutions.
• Proficient and good hands-on exposure on ERP (Preferred Oracle, SAP, Mfg. Pro)
• Proficient in one or two tools like Power BI/ Tableau, MS Access, SQL, R/ Python

Change management, thought leadership, ability to work in matrix organization, results oriented, process minded, customer orientated, coaching, influencer, strong communication skills.