Ibp Lead and Planning Manager

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Mondelēz International Full time

**Job Description**:
**Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?**

**Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Possible.**

You will oversee demand planning activities for your assigned product families in your business unit or area. You will also support the demand review process, championing the integrated business planning process and driving interactions with the cross-functional teams.

**How you will contribute**

You will:

- Manage a forecasting team responsible for the development of an unbiased and unconstrained forecast over a 24-month period with properly documented assumptions
- Partner with category finance to support appropriate linkage between the monthly integrated business planning (IBP) forecast and financial forecasts (key assumptions, risks, opportunities)
- Partner with modelling team to generate statistical forecasting
- Partner with commercial leadership to quantify and validate risks and opportunities and support the development of plans to close gaps between the forecast and target
- Partner with innovation and equity to validate the sizing of innovations, renovations and campaigns as they enter the 24-month forecast
- Partner with supply planning to ensure there is confidence in the demand plan and that key forecast decisions are made by the appropriate stakeholders and with the appropriate amount of lead time to ensure the successful execution and delivery of the plan
- Manage, coach and develop a team driving continuous capability building in the demand planning team for planning improvement

**What you will bring**

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

- Comprehensive supply chain, economic, financial or logistics experience and strong business acumen, ideally in a fast-moving consumer goods or consumer goods environment
- Open to learn new ways of working and is willing to be hands on in using data and systems
- Significant experience driving demand review and participation in an IBP cycle
- Strategic agility, able to drive for cross-functional results by proactively understanding and managing key issues and success criteria, and prioritizing accordingly
- Project personal maturity and tact to effectively work with cross-functional team members to deal with conflicting priorities and ambiguity
- Strong senior leadership influencing skills and organizational agility. Able to build effective teams
- Knowledge of leading practice demand planning and end-to-end supply chain concepts
- Excellent problem-solving skills, analytical skills, and verbal and written communication skills

**More about this role**

To be responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control, and completion of all IBP (Integrated Business Planning) activities and process (hands on), the Demand Planning function and the Finished Goods Supply Planning Function for Sub Sahara Africa.

The role includes but not limited to managing the full IBP process end to end, the demand planning, and Finished Goods supply planning function for the business unit Sub Sahara Africa.

Drive a team that comprise off leads/experts, to deliver against cross product business category strategies and ultimately deliver incremental growth.

You will be directly responsible for the effective and efficient operation of IBP process and for its continuous improvement, you will oversee demand planning activities for your assigned product families in your business unit or area and support the demand review process, and you will oversee supply planning activities for your product families in the business unit, being responsible for supporting the supply review process and interactions with the cross-functional teams.

**What you need to know about this position**:
**What extra ingredients you will bring**:

- Strategic agility, able to drive for cross-functional results by proactively understanding and managing key issues and success criteria, and prioritizing accordingly
- Project personal maturity and tact to effectively work with cross-functional team members to deal with conflicting priorities and ambiguity
- Strong senior leadership influencing skills and organizational agility. Able to build effective teams
- Knowledgeable of leading practice demand planning and supply chain concepts
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrated multi language skills within a fast moving, multi-cultural business.
- Customer relationship building skills.
- Excellent knowledge of the end-to-end business processes.
- Ability to meet stringent deadlines

**Education / Certifications**:

- University Degree in Finance/Accounting or related Supply Chain/Business Planning.
- MBA an advantage.
- 7+ experience in IBP, demand planning and/or supply planning / conflict management
- Comprehensive supply chain, economic, financial and/or logistics experience and strong business acu

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