Demand Planning Manager

2 days ago

Johannesburg, South Africa MARS Full time

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**Job Purpose**:

- To own, facilitate, and administrate sales forecasting and demand management for local market in collaboration with extended VCO teams and Pillars
- Own the base demand plan
- Effectively interacts and communicate with the factories (South Africa and Europe) maintaining high level of customer satisfaction (RJH and import forecasts)
- Deliver an accurate demand plan in sell-out based on market and regional insights.
- Maintain a constant relationship with the sales, marketing, finance, sourcing and manufacturing teams to understand the demand forecasting drivers.
- Challenge the forecasts from the sales teams and the usual runs (historical data, seasonality, market trends, special offers, budgets ) with relevant data analysis.
- Improve the forecasts accuracy (statistical models) with coordinated actions and update of FM planning too

**What are we looking for?**:

- 3-5 years working experience in supply chain management
- Minimum 2 years’ experience directly in demand planning or supply planning
- Prefer to have more than 2 years working experience at multinational companies
- Knowledge in Import Process and Supply Planning is a plus
- Advantage to have experience in premium or nutritional product industry
- Prefer experience in manufacturing environment
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, logistics, or related fields
- Excellent communication (both written & oral) in English
- Expert data analytics capabilities, including strong EXCEL capabilities

**What will be your key responsibilities?**:

- Develop a reliable demand plan for South Africa over a rolling 26-period horizon in collaboration with Pillars
- Facilitate demand consensus meetings with Sales, Marketing and Exports Teams
- Challenge and integrate within the demand plan the hypothesis of growth communicated by the Pillars and work with Finance to deliver ‘1 number’
- Perform ongoing analysis of demand variability, assess risk and take corrective action to close gaps
- Secure the execution of all Promotions and new product deployment plan in collaboration with all relevant stakeholders by incorporating demand: Marketing, Sales, Finance, Supply Chain
- Communicate base to stakeholders for agreement (Pillars, marketing and VCO) upon amendment
- Follow up on quality indicators (over and undersell, new product sell-through, identify deviation root causes and implement corrective actions with stakeholders
- Develop the base demand plan using the most appropriate statistical forecasting tools and make adjustments where necessary
- Develop and implement ‘Event Management’ plan: (weekly & monthly process) in conjunction with Pillars and work with Supply Chain
- Be Supply Chain Representative S&OP+ Step 1 and 2 - PMR/DMR to share supply and inventory update, review baseline numbers and assumptions with cross-functional teams
- Flag inventory concerns, collaborate with Sales and Marketing to resolve ad-hoc requests, inventory phasing (short-dated/high inventory products and SLOBs)
- Establish and continuously review the supply chain standard operation procedures with relation to promotional management ensuring that it is being followed
- Participate in activity management projects to ensure product availability for South Africa market on time as per project plan and highlight concerns and build plans to mitigate with relevant teams
- Maintain product master data in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system (NAVISION).
- Generate the new product forecast using the historical substitution and like modelling/scenario planning techniques agreed with Marketing and Pillars
- Own and Facilitate the Demand Planning Process
- Build up deck to share on Risk and Opportunity captured during meetings
- Support market initiatives in improving the quality of their demand plan by assessing the effectiveness of their process, offering guidance and sharing best practices.

**What can you expect from Mars?**:

- Work with over 130,000 like-minded and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

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