Job Title: Demand Planner,
Reports To: Supply Chain and Customer Service Manager, East Africa,
Our client Pernod Ricard is
a worldwide leader in the wines and spirits industry with HQ for East Africa in
Nairobi, Kenya. They are seeking to hire a Demand Planner to Create and
maintain forecast models across the Pernod Ricard Kenya business incorporating
business intelligence and forecast information gathered from the Sales,
Marketing, Finance, and Supply Chain operations; Lead and manage the S&OP
process to ensure that the S&OP discipline is adhered to and Develop a
robust and cost-effective supply plan that meets customer demand derived from
business plans as agreed to during the monthly Demand Review meetings.
Key Responsibilities
Demand Planning
- Support the Annual business planning and monthly
forecasting process by driving volume and value forecasting
- Lead the demand review and forecast alignment
meetings.
- Support the Commercial Team and Commercial Analyst
to ensure the rolling 18 months sales forecasting discipline is understood
and adhered to.
- Collaborate with the Commercial Analyst and
Commercial Team to challenge trends and capture market intelligence and
understand demand forecast drivers during pre-demand and final demand
review meetings.
- Ensure that the business receives an 18-month
consensus demand plan (sales forecast) approved by the Commercial/Sales or
Managing Director.
- Collaborate with the Commercial Analyst to review
historical sales trends, research demand drivers, and evaluate forecast
results to support a collaborative and consensus approach with the Sales,
Marketing, and Finance teams, to obtain and ensure that current and
accurate information is used in forecast planning.
- Plan monthly departmental alignments and make
recommendations to improve the sales forecast.
- Obtain sales out forecasts to support forecasts and
demand planning and to recommend stock planning parameters based on sales
out forecasts per customer.
- Closely coordinate and communicate Customer action
plans with Supply Planning.
- Provide input into the Supply Planning operations in
developing inventory strategies on existing items, new products, and
product phase-outs.
- Constantly engage with stakeholders to ensure
alignment in lead times, inventory days, and inventory aging.
Data Management
- Create and maintain the appropriate master data in
the Planning systems in use, minimizing errors, and avoiding duplication
and obsolescence. i.e. Anaplan
- Create statistical forecasts to gather, analyze,
validate data and execute statistical modeling software
- Review the results of the statistical forecast model
and apply error analysis techniques to improve forecasting; summarize and
aggregate statistical forecasts. Refine the forecast model to reflect
updated Sales and Marketing assumptions
- Maintain the demand planning system and software to
input and modify data and ensure the correctness of product hierarchy
- Monitor trends in forecast error – Identify relevant
market-related data and competitive intelligence
- Drive fast, appropriate actions to minimize the
impact of deviations from the Demand Plan and communicate these actions to
stakeholders.
- Consistently improve the Demand Plan Accuracy (DPA
accuracy level and variability) using the Forecast Value Added (FVA)
concept and drive out systematic forecast bias through detailed analyses
of past performance.
- Track errors using DP Reason Codes and maintain an
efficient Learning Log.
- Provide input to volume planning (Latest Estimates /
annual process) and achieve consensus with the business side and the
demand chain
Continuous Improvement
- Maintain Monthly, Quarterly, and ad hoc reporting on
Operations KPI’s internally and to the Regional Office or EMEA HQ
- Propose improvement initiatives based on KPI’s
reports and sales trends
- Lead and manage the end-to-end process for New
Product Introductions
- Lead and manage ad hoc projects from start to end
Requirements
- Bachelor’s
degree in Supply Chain, Business Management, Statistics, or another
relevant field.
- A
graduate diploma (CIPS) or any other national higher diploma in Supply
Chain or Logistics is a plus.
- Min
5 years of work experience as a Demand Planner or similar role.
- Demonstrated
knowledge of demand planning philosophies and processes as well as a
proven track record.
How to Apply.
If
you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualification and
experience, send your CV only quoting the job title on the email subject (Demand Planner) to vacancies@corporatestaffing.co.ke by 25th February 2023.