Demand & Supply Planning Manager

7 months ago

Cape Town, South Africa THE SKILLS MINE (PTY) LTD Full time

**Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, or related field with undergraduate statistical analysis or engineering focus - APICS certification a plus
- Demonstrated 5 plus years of experience working in areas of Demand and Supply Planning, Sales forecasting, and Marketing activities
- Comprehensive knowledge of retail accounts operations, forecasting technology, systems, market research data, and supply chain management
- APICS certification is a plus
- Ability to develop relationships with other areas of the business, particularly the Sales, Finance, and Marketing teams
- Proven ability to conduct complex, quantitative, and statistical analyses complemented with qualitative inputs from multiple sources to draw conclusions and make recommendations
- Deep knowledge and experience in SAP - ERP and planning tools including IBP
- Advanced MS Office skills, especially Excel and interactive data visualization software products with a primary focus on business intelligence

**Responsibilities**
- Responsible for analyzing the historical sales data, trends, base growth, distribution, and market share and creating/analyze a statistical forecast, and determine the Operations Demand Plan in order to challenge/align with the Sales Demand Plan
- Collaborate with Sales to understand the past performance of sales, drive root cause analyses to understand errors in prior periods, and highlight inconsistencies in the latest. Challenge the latest sales demand plan, to understand underlying assumptions and compare it with the Operations Demand Plan
- Responsible for supporting the Ops Manager in driving the monthly Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process and defining the meetings (structure and protocols), deadlines for finished goods products, and VISIT/POS items according to the Global Guidelines
- Based upon the consensus Demand Plan, generate the monthly local Supply Plan as input for the Global S&OP Process by defining the location split of the Demand Plan, defining target stock levels, considering restrictions, etc
- Lead solutions findings and execution of demand and supply imbalances
- Establish and manage inventory levels to ensure no out-of-stock, inventory levels according to business plans and ensure healthy product age according to the quality guidelines. Alert to the Operations Manager in case of risks in inventory management and provide a plan to reduce risks
- Provide insights to the OPS Manager to conduct fact-based portfolio management and implement a yearly SKU portfolio review cycle
- Collaborate with Finance & Sales to establish long-term SKU portfolio management based on complexity and costs matrix

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