POSITION SUMMARY
Joining Nestlé means you are joining the largest food and Beverage Company in the world. At our very core, we are a human environment – passionate people driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future.
Leading bottom-up consensus demand plans in Country through an efficient alignment across stakeholders, while ensuring supply by providing visibility and coordinating with different functions for on-time availability
A DAY IN THE LIFE …
Leading Pre-Alignment meeting in Country (depending on the cluster organizational structure) through an efficient alignment across stakeholders by capturing, prioritizing, and analyzing input from Generating Demand on events; customer, consumer & competitor information; other external / internal trends and influences, that impact planning.
Ensuring that Sellout/IMS data is used (wherever applicable) in building the bottom-up consensus demand plan with commercial team, and highlighting risk (if any) of exceeding trade coverage policy through cluster MBPC
Building bottom-up Risks & Opportunities through an efficient pre-alignment meeting, ensuring the flow of data into cluster MBPC for decision making that will help in driving optimum levels of supply accounting for potential risks & opportunities
'Support automation roadmap and drive focus in MBPC by adopting AI tools outcome (providing that it gives similar or better accuracy for tail end SKUs)
Continuous revision of demand plan and month landing by leading Weekly Exception Review meeting with commercial team, to trigger right signal for short term supply adjustments
Ensuring supply by coordinating with different functions (clearance team, category supply planners, ...etc.), while providing visibility to commercial team for on-time availability.
Contributing positively to bad goods reduction by leading freshness meeting in the Country with relevant stakeholders, making sure that action plan is reflected in MBPC as aligned outcome, or escalating in case risk can't be avoided
Continuous monitoring of KPIs evolution, with the aim of improving Service level & Accuracy through MBPC process while reducing the cost
Maintaining and communicating DPA learning log to Cluster, Category & Analytical hub that will provide right level of information on the deviation versus actuals by reason code
Coordinating with local A&P team to ensure on time execution and availability of promo stocks in line with promo planning SOP
Supporting order fulfillment management and reason code assignment for OOS, and action plan to drive improvement
What will make you successful…
Two or more years of relevant operational experience at market / business level, in at least one of the following areas:
Demand Planning
Supply Planning
Customer Service & Logistics
Procurement
Statistical Analysis
If not held a commercial role before joining Demand Planning, a mission to a sales related function is strongly recommended
Desirable to have had exposure to LEAN concepts and tools
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