Planner: Demand

**Job Advert Summary**:
**Minimum Requirements**:

- Degree
- Business English: Fluent
- Experience in working with senior management.
- Computer literacy (Advanced)

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Develop demand forecast on daily/weekly/monthly (Clover and/or Principals)**
- Generate statistical based forecast, review exceptions, cleans history, validate assumptions, analyse variance between expected and actual results
- Facilitate monthly rolling demand plan per product Group and/or SKU and/or SKU Family
- Collaborate with Marketing, Principals and Key Accounts to obtain market intelligence (MDT)
- Collect data, analyse historical trends, promotions, analyse market intelligence, map events
- Monitor demand plan daily/weekly/monthly and take corrective action
- Conduct promotional tracking and analysis in terms of volumes and dates
- Analyse deviations and demand changes and present findings to multi discipline team
- Monitor monthly forecast vs weekly forecast and take corrective action.
- Develop/track holiday planning forecast.
- Collaborate with Supply Planners and discuss future promotions, launches and forecast.

**Create, analyse, communicate reports.**
- Analyse and communicate order fill rate (supply levels to customers)
- Run forecast error report, analyse and learn from reason for error.
- Draw reports on new listings/discontinuation and facilitate solutions.
- Conduct trend analysis on sku's and communicate corrective action.
- Analyse and communicate possible ranging per region.
- Run weekly forecast error report per distribution area\sku
- Run and communicate promotional tracking report.

**Optimise and review ideal inventory levels.**
- Calculate and communicate ideal buffer stocks according to forecast accuracy levels.
- Calculate and communicate minimum and maximum order quantities.
- Action stock reports, communicate overstocks and take action to move stock.

**Maintain Supply Chain Planning Master data.**
- Create new items.
- Phase out discontinued items
- Maintain forecastable items to location (CIC file)
- Maintain distribution relationships (direct deliveries or re-supply orders)
- Maintain factory per branch item master.
- Maintain/Setup days to trade (DTT), primary distribution days.

**Facilitate new product launches between Marketing, Trade Marketing & Supply Chain Planning**
- Collaborate with Marketing regarding new launches.
- Analyse/Identify similar product.
- Generate forecast per region.
- Monitor/action/report on new launch project
- Monitor product trend and adjust forecast.