Supply Chain

• Ownership of demand planning activities by product category to deliver the most accurate near and long-term total forecast as measured by forecast accuracy and attainment.
• Develop 2-3 years long range demand plan for assigned Brands by incorporating Brand strategic expectations along with driving cross functional collaborative processes to deliver aligned long range demand plan.
• Innovation lead for Demand planning and lead cross functional alignment with customer team, supply chain, brand & finance partners.
• Own execution of global Brand cross-functional collaboration process with brand, finance, supply chain and trade marketing teams to assess, validate and align our strategic demand assumptions.
• Work with the Brand, Sales, Operations, Supply Planning and Finance teams in the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process to assure alignment in between the forecast and financial plans.
• Challenge the sales and marketing assumptions when significant deviations occur between the demand-based revenue plan and the business plans.
• Identify quantified risks within the demand plan, review gaps with brand & customer teams and develop appropriate countermeasures for resolution.
• Drive continuous improvement for global demand planning processes and tools across regions, by reviewing current processes, ways of working, gaps and tools, to improve and sustain better metrics such as forecast error, bias, etc.
• Drive continuous development and learning activities across regions, upskilling, and coaching and ensuring regional alignment to global approach, to ensure appropriate skillsets and capabilities of planners across regions.
• Managing the forecasting system and reporting tools to deliver optimal modeling of the business and improve planner productivity by maximizing system functionality.
• Drive and embody a culture of change within the L&D demand planning organization to identify and drive step-change performance improvements.
• Partner with statistician and customer teams to drive statistical forecast solution /improvements.
• Act as a SAP/IBP business process /reporting tool champion and partner with GSC team to drive improvement and solve system related issues.

Lead Category Demand Planner

Director, Application Development – Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Production Planning, Scheduling