Demand Planning Manager

2 weeks ago


Durban, South Africa Kerry Full time

**Requisition ID** 47458
**Position Type** FT Permanent
**Recruiter **#LI-RG1
**Posting Type** LI

Kerry offers the industry’s largest portfolio of Taste & Nutrition Systems and Functional Ingredients & Actives, serving the Global Food, Beverage and Pharmaceutical industries. We work with the world’s top Retailers and Manufacturing companies to produce some of the best private-label products and tailored Food & Beverage solutions on the market. We also work with the leading Food Service chains helping to deliver appetising, relevant and innovative custom solutions, using our expertise in new product development, production and commercialisation.

Our Values: Courage | Enterprising Spirit | Inclusiveness | Open-mindedness | Ownership

**About the role**:
The Demand Planning Manager is responsible for generating a monthly forecast for a portfolio of products through a combination of statistical analysis, gathering of market intelligence and engagement with customers / Commercial team on understanding and forecasting future demand. The Demand Planning Manager plays a critical role in facilitating the communication between the Commercial team, Finance and the Supply Chain. The Demand Planning Manager is also tasked with securing a demand consensus as part of the monthly process.

This role would ideally suit an analytical, career driven individual who is able to exhibit dynamic capabilities with different organisational teams to achieve company targets and customer satisfaction.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Create base forecasts from various sources including commercial, customers, marketing, sites, and historical sales data
- Create a finalized plan against the time period(s) specified
- Ensure the Demand Planning process is conducted on agreed cycles
- Manage weekly demand planning process reports
- Prepare daily / weekly reports on agreed key Demand Planning metrics
- Communicate demand planning policy to sites as often as needed, together with the customer and supply chain implications of the demand plan
- Provide analysis of and feedback on the customer and business rules to ensure optimal supply to markets and customers
- Support the enablement of development projects through to launch, and identify product delists, to minimise material risk and service failures
- Provide support and suggest solutions where business targets are not being realised
- Attend and contribute to Supply Chain Meetings as required
- Accountability S&OP monthly reporting
- Training of local supply chain teams on demand planning best practices, use of stock and forecasting accuracy / error measures to improve forecasting effectiveness

**Qualifications and skills**:

- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain (BCom) or equivalent.
- 4-5 years Supply Chain experience, of which 3 - 5 years must be in demand planning function including forecasting or sales and operations planning (S&OP) environment or with a proven track record in Supply Chain
- Fluent in English, highly numerate; first class analytical skills including data manipulation
- Flexible approach - excellent leadership skills together with strong team ethic
- Experience of SAP APO, MS EXCEL®
- Experience in Power BI is an advantage.
- Effective problem-solving, numeracy and analytical skills at both operational and tactical levels
- Ability to manage complexity and ambiguity
- Good communicator across all levels within and external to the organization
- Strong negotiation skills and ability to build rapport and influence across all levels in the organisation
- Excellent self-management practices with a pro-active, energetic and committed approach
- Excellent presentation and report drafting skills
- Ability to manage multiple streams of information optimally with attention to detail
- An inclination towards the quantitative disciplines of mathematics, statistics and economics would be advantageous
- Basic business financial understanding would be advantageous. Basic business financial understanding would be advantageous
- Customer engagement



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