Manager - EM Demand & Distribution Planner

• Provide long term forecasts for annual budgets and long range planning
• Support identified CTS improvement initiatives for products across portfolios
• Perform market analysis leveraging IMS data, customer contracts etc.
• Revise FG inventory norms and take sign off from business head
• Coordinate with sales and marketing team and distribution team to capture voice of customer and monitor customer service levels
• Plan and execute initiatives / interventions based on customer feedback to enhance customer satisfaction
• Collaborate with the Global Supply Planning team Central Supply Planners for DF Global Plants for long range capacity planning for respective plants

• Create base forecast based on statistical sales data (primary secondary) and market intelligence
• Facilitate bottom up forecasts creation
• Discuss base forecast and bottom up forecasts with sales marketing team and develop consensus forecast
• Upload consensus forecast in system and share with Supply Planning Team
• Maintain hygiene and integrity of master data (inventory norms, transit lead time, outdated forecasts / orders, potential expiry / expired stock, unwanted sales orders / open deliveries, NPL indicators)
• Review production plans prepared by supply planners by assessing impact on FG inventory across the pipeline
• Share inputs on fine-tuning the production plans based on prioritization among SKUs
• Represent the respective portfolio from a demand planning perspective in the pre-SOP and SOP fora
• Escalate cases of sudden additional/reduction in demand with back-up analysis to the demand distribution planning head
• Monitor FG inventory across the pipeline (market warehouse, in-transit plant) and fine-tune their FG inventory norms every 6 months
• Monitor slow and non-moving inventory and drive initiative to liquidate the same with respective sales teams
• Review monthly and weekly dispatch plans shared by dispatch teams
• Track dispatches from the warehouse and suggest change in mode as required
• Share market-relevant inputs to IMPULSE team and co-ordinate demand side activities for new product launches
• Participate in monthly IMPULSE NPL meetings and drive key actions identified to ensure smooth transition of new products to stable commercial products
• Deliver on key supply chain metrics (Customer OTIF, Forecast Accuracy, Pending order, FG inventory, Air : Sea ratio, FG inventory write-off) and drive improvements based on root cause analysis

• Customer OTIF (On time in full)
• Lost Sales
• Forecast Accuracy
• Mode (Air : Sea) mix
• Inventory Days- FG and RM/PM (as per scientific norms)
• On-time FG dispatch
• Write-off costs
• Adherence to agreed timelines for SOP process
• Adherence to agreed timelines for NPL (on Supply Chain activities)

• Tenure
  : 5-8 years of experience with 3-4 years in demand planning and inventory management
• Holding mid-management in at least 1 area (and having exposure to at least 2 areas) out of:

• Demand Planning
• Supply Planning

Required Skills