Demand Planner

5 days ago


Durban, South Africa Armstrong Appointments Full time

**Main job function**

**Key Functions**:

- Managing forecasts, planning, and stock management for the specified category / categories.
- Supporting the Key Account Managers (KAM’s) with data and analysis.
- Achieving KPI’s of Case fill, Warehouse recoveries, and stock expiry costs.

**Core Responsibilities**:

- Collecting data from internal and external sources on factors that affect demand.
- Analysing sales trends, stock rotation and other data statistics that affect the demand and supply chain.
- Reviewing historical sales trends, current trends, and future trends.
- Modelling the data to forecast future demand based on varied factors.
- Obtaining and analysing information on occurrences that could impact demand like promotions and production delays.
- Management of stock rotation and expiry.
- Gathering updates on vendors, distributors, sales, and other stakeholders that can affect demand.
- Developing demand forecasts at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizons.
- Coordinating cross-functional research activities to reconcile significant variances.
- Interacting with sales, marketing, and customer information to understand demand forecast drivers.
- Using and maintaining the demand planning software system/s.
- Looking for continuous savings across the supply chain through planning and buying.
- Refining systems and methods to improve forecasts in order to better anticipate customer needs.

Qualifications:

- A Bachelor’s degree in supply chain or equivalent

**Experience**:
**Requirements**:

- 3-4 years FMCG planning experience.
- Strong computer skills with proficiency in tools such as Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
- Continuous improvement mindset.
- Customer service skills.
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Cross functional collaboration skills.
- Analysis and problem-solving skills such as the ability to question, accurately identify a need and present an effective solution.
- ERP experience would be beneficial.


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