Job Description

PURPOSE OF THE JOB: The department Planning takes care of a reliable forecast and efficient S&OP processes. The outcome is to speed up the decision-making processes and business planning within Sales and Marketing. This has direct influence on the upper service levels and lower provisions. The important KPI’s for Demand Planning are Forecasting and Punctuality. The purpose is to continuously improve those KPI’s in order to minimize Out of Stock and write off. Accountabilities of this role are as below: -DEMAND PLANNING: Generates and updates demand plans, combining statistical and commercial forecast (including NPI’s, promotions and events) in cooperation with Commercial department and other relevant stakeholders. Incorporates customer and consumer behavior in the demand plan. When needed challenge the Commercial plans and assumptions based on historic performance and common sense. - STATISTICAL FORECAST: Creates statistical forecast including differentiations, causal relationships, baseline/uplift, main drivers and demand patterns, seasonality and trend changes. - SCENARIO ANALYSIS: Generates and discusses alternative scenarios on the demand plan for the S&OP process, with clearly listed assumptions and risk assessment on volume and costs. - DEMAND PLANNING PROCESS: Coordinates and monitors the demand planning processes, taking into account the interdependencies with supply planning and commercial activities. - TPM AND CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Initiates, implements and embeds improvements to demand planning processes and procedures and supports TPM initiatives. - MONITORING FORECAST PERFORMANCE: Monitors and analyses the demand planning KPI’s like forecast accuracy and bias. Discusses and supports improvement opportunities with the commercial department. - MANAGEMENT INFORMATION: Provides clear and accurate information on demand planning performance.