Demand Management Specialist

2 weeks ago


Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa SNG GrantThornton Full time

Job Summary:


Own, facilitate and lead the stock forecasting and demand management process for the company in order to drive visibility of demand to the Business and in particular to the supply chain; improve product prioritization and associated business decisions; and improve customer service.


Qualification:

  • Minimum of a relevant Degree in Procurement or equivalent (NQF 7)
  • Minimum 5 years' experience in SCM environment (within manufacturing context [TQM; JIT, etc] OR relevant SCM field of operations)

Experience:

  • Wide knowledge of SAP MM module
  • Policy development and implementation
  • Cost benefit analysis
  • SCM processes
  • Legislative regulations
  • Process implementation
  • Benchmarking process
  • Company products
  • Procurement best practices
  • Inventory management principles
  • Project management
  • Distribution management
  • Standardisation methodologies
  • Financial and planning processes
  • Customer relationship management

Key Responsibilities:

1 Strategic Planning:

  • Define the degree of forward planning months, 2 years etc) and execute accordingly

2 Strategy Operationalisation:

  • Work in conjunction with the Warehousing Manager and the Procurement Managers in the SCM team, to cocreate the national strategy, based on a 1year's view of requirements
  • Ensure the agreed strategic targets are implemented through team targets and that these targets align cross functionally within area of responsibility

3 Demand Forecasting and Management:

  • Ensure that the forecasts presented have appropriate documented assumptions and that the base forecast has been challenged in advance of it being presented to the BU
  • Daily Service Level management

4 Business Intelligence:

  • Master Data and Business Process Conformance

5 Demand Chain Productivity and KPA Reporting:

  • Compile KPI reports and update the performance matrix
  • SLA reporting

6 Project Management:

  • Drives continuous improvement in both forecast accuracy and customer service excellence by making recommendations for change using facts and trends learnt through appropriate analysis of that
  • Work closely with the Sales / Customer team to complete promotional effectiveness analysis and provide input into pricing decisions where appropriate

7 Innovation:

  • Work with Customer teams to develop the forecast for new products and to manage the discontinuation of products out of the business

8 Portfolio Management:

  • Complete the data analysis to provide input into discussions on portfolio management

9 Sales and Operations Planning:

  • Drive the Demand Planning part of the Sales and Operations Planning process with the extended sales /. Customer team, identifying key opportunities and risks (both in price and volume)


Ensure the efficient management and control of function / resources in accordance with the stipulations of the PFMA, fraud prevention and risk management principles, corporate governance, legislation, company policies, processes, regulations, relevant agreements, Delegation of Authority, SLAs, etc.


Skills:

  • Ability to design / draw up procurement requirements forecasting
  • Ability to operationalise strategies
  • Benchmarking
  • Computer literate
  • Ability to work with figures
  • Leadership
  • Good communication skills (verbal & report writing)
  • Analytical with understanding of Deduction
  • Strong interpersonal
  • Effective team management
  • Budgeting using good business Acumen
  • Total quality management
  • Negotiation and good presentation skills
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Ability to see the bigger picture in terms of the impact of changes on the rest of SCM
  • Fact based decision making
  • Persuasive and good problem solving
  • Problem solving
  • Project management


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