The Role:

Assist Central demand planner in timely and smooth execution of demand planning processes
Maintenance of demand planning masters
Working with sales for facilitating S&OP process, data aggregation and dis-aggregation
Collaborate with internal stakeholders like IT, sales, finance for smooth functioning of demand planning process
Spend time in the market to understand the demand planning and sales trends and understand reasons for MAPE and Bias
This will be a individual Contributor role.
This role will be reporting to the Centrall Demand planning manager role.

Responsibilities:

Supervising: Ensuring KPIs

Technical / Administrative Support:

Should have experience running the monthly S&OP cycle along with Sales and marketing teams.
Should know how to run Demand planning, forecasting systems and how to generate and improve monthly forecasts.
Role will be Central SPOC for demand planning system master data generation and maintenance.

Skills required:

System knowledge of Demand planning systems (Blue Yonder , SAP IBP/APO , O9 , Kinaxis )
Preferred Background - IT, SCM , Good knowledge of SAP,
Advanced Excel skills Required. Should be having Engineering or Science as Graduation degree with Good Maths skills.
Candidates with APICS certifications, CSCP, CPIM, PMP or statistics certifications etc will be preferred.

Experience:

Experience in implementing Demand Planning , S&OP systems from scratch will be preferred.
Candidate should be preferably from Manufacturing, Paints or FMCG industry. Potential Target companies will include Asian Paints, Berger , HUL , Dabur , Godrej , Mondelez , Berger Paints, Flipkart , amazon , Reliance Retail , Dmart etc
Work ex range 2 years to 8 years.
Graduate degree is must , MBA /MS will be a plus for the role.
Graduates with Statistics/Demand planning related education will be preferred.

Central Demand Planning Exec.