Primary Responsibilities:
-Own the demand planning process for the cluster
-develop the linkages among the cross-functional team
-provide guidance for and align on a robust demand-based forecast for the countries at all meaningful levels, supporting both S&OP (18-24 months) and RvsCC (5-year) horizon. Employ an effective demand segmentation strategy to focus on the key products and key customers while using statistical forecast as basis for the rest of the volume.
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-Develop discipline of incorporating sales and marketing inputs into the demand plan
drive the consensus between the Cluster (top-down) and Country roll-up (bottom-up) view of demand, supported by documentation of assumption changes, risk and opportunities and reasons to believe. Ensure a robust handoff to Supply Planning to promote an Advantaged Supply Chain that will ensure product availability and optimize working capital investment.
-Feed the demand input into the cluster and regional S&OP process
-provide fact-based advice to the business to facilitate the cluster decisions on allocation of available supply. Propagate the demand signals into the organization (Supply, Finance, Procurement, Sales and Marketing, Product Management).
-Drive demand planning business process excellence through standardized and meaningful processes and aids, aligned with global and regional standards. Facilitate a demand planning culture that ensures that monthly forecast submission deadlines are respected, and drives key performance objectives of forecast accuracy and sales plan stability.
-You are responsibility to continuously drive the optimization on demand planning effectiveness and effeciency:
-Align and establish the ABP process with pricing, distribution,marketing and sales team to identify the clear R&O
-Establish dollarized S&OP process
-Drive the business analysis for channel-based demand discussion.
-Lead and standardize the SFA loss analysis and idenfity the action plans by each building blocks.
-Collaborate with region team for ML enhancement.
-Drive continuous improvement projects or new initiatives to drive changes.
Required Experiences and Knowledge:
-You with 5 years working experience in sales operations, marketing operations, demand / supply planning at minimum.
-You with 2-3 years working experience on continuous improvement within sales forecasting, demand planning, and inventory management or operations planning.Supply Chain and operation related experience is a plus.
-You with experience in S&OP process design and optimization.
-You with excellent communication and data presentation skills, ability to present complex analytical data and results in a simple way.
-You are a professional and interpersonal skills in working with sales/marketing managers, high flexibility and ability to drive change and deliver results under pressure.
-You are self-confidence and assertiveness in questioning numbers and challenging assumptions being made by others.
-You with excellent negotiation skills / experience with diplomatic handling of challenging cross functional and business relationships by persuading, convincing and build partnerships in order to reach consensus.
-You with Data analysis, e.g. tableau, python is a plus.