Demand Planner

1 week ago


Cape Town, South Africa Clicks Group Limited Full time

**Listing reference**: 019474

**Listing status**: Online

**Position summary**

**Industry**:FMCG & Supply Management

**Job category**:Supply and Demand

**Location**:Cape Town

**Contract**:Permanent

**Remuneration**:Market Related

**EE position**:Yes

**About our company**
- Clicks Group

**Introduction**
- Clicks is on the hunt for a Demand Planner. To ensure effective demand and statistical forecasting for assigned categories in order to drive profitability through increased sales, improved margins, and working capital productivity

**Job description**
- To ensure the accurate and effective creation and management of statistical, promotional, event and total forecasts using provided systems and tools for all new and existing product ranges
- To recognize and reconcile forecast exceptions to track and manage sales against forecast and validate forecast for OTB management
- To determine causal factors impacting forecasts and respond appropriately, (weather, moving events, promotions etc.)
- To ensure effective stakeholder management and engagement in order to determine trends, identify new products, evaluate risks and determine inventory and replenishment requirements
- To generate and deliver accurate and timely management reports and maintain key metrics against goals in order to analyze forecast performance and ensure forecast accuracy and inventory optimization
- To effectively analyze post promotional and event data to determine opportunities, improve future forecasts, and act as necessary for inventory disposition
- To effectively lead and prepare for the consensus forecast meetings with key stakeholders in order to enhance key insights and decisions taken
- To ensure that the history data cleansing process is followed in order to improve sales history
- To ensure the effective execution of the range review process and decision making in order to assist the Category Team to determine optimal range
- To look for opportunities to maximize sales potential and support the Category team to develop Category Operating Plans and other initiatives to achieve sales, margin and stock targets

**Minimum requirements**

**Job Related Knowledge**
- Essential
- FMCG, Supply Chain and Logistics
- Data analysis models
- Ability to understand and fine tune algorithms for optimal forecast performance
- Execution of the new stores / lines / products process using required commercial acumen
- Understanding of customer needs and wants, trends, competitive environment and market share
- Desireable
- Financial planning models and methodologies
- Deep understanding of the consistent management and planning of the supplier base performance metrics, promotional planning cycle, product lifecycle, supply chain optimization for their products, business analysis and reporting

**Job Related Skills**
- Causal factor determination and event driven adjustments
- Deep analytical skills
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, to build relationships and drive consensus and collaboration across functional groups
- Business math acumen and analysis to comprehend financial information and reporting to make business decisions
- Forecasting consumer trends and buying habits 9 - 24 months in the future
- Complex decision making based on statistics, trends and opinions
- Presentation skills with focus being on oral and written communication skills
- Proficiency on MS Office Excel, Word, Outlook and Power Point, spreadsheets, databases
- Complex Problem solving
- Retail mathematical calculations (e.g. variance to last year, percent of total, turn, Open-to-Buy and sales per square foot)
- Strong negotiating and influencing skills

**Job Experience**
- Essential
- Strong planning and buying experience with solid understanding of financial and statistical analysis of both
- 2-4 years’ experience with distributions requirement planning and other supply chain processes such as demand planning, production planning, scheduling and transportation

Desirable
- 1-2 years planning and executing projects involving multiple groups across an organization desirable
- Experience with retail buying or logistics preferred
- Supply chain software knowledge advantageous

**Education**
- Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Math, Decision Science, Business, related area or equivalent experience

**Job Related Competencies**
- Deciding and Initiating Action
- Persuading and Influencing
- Presenting and Communicating Information
- Analysing
- Planning and Organising
- Adapting and Responding to Change
- Entrepreneurial and Commercial Thinking


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