Barcelona – Barcelona, Talent Search People, S.L.
About our client:

The company, is a leader in cosmetics industry. It has subsidiaries in 21 countries around the world and its products are distributed in more than 130 countries.

About the job:

As a local demand planner, you will be working in the supply chain division and reporting to the manager of this area. Your objective will be to lead the local S&OP with marketing and commercial. To ensure that the total sales forecast for all the products in its market is available on time with enough accuracy to ensure service level and optimized inventory levels. To gather all the market intelligence and adjust sales forecast accordingly. To follow up alignment between budget and sales forecast and ensure the understanding of the discrepancies. And to manage, guide and control the demand planning team so each of its members can achieve its mission on their products

Your main responsibilities:

In the area of planning:

-To generate catalogue products base forecast:
-To clean historical sales data from unpredictable events
-To assign and adjust the best model to calculate the statistical base forecast
-To generate statistical base forecast
-To gather market information of marketing and commercial departments and use it to adjust the base forecast
-To facilitate the promotions and new launches planning processes with marketing and commercial department
-To provide promotional and new launches agreed volumes to GDPs
-To own the demand plan for the market
-To prepare andlead the local Sales & Operation Planning process and meeting (S&OP)

Execute:
-To maintain all the needed data in the supporting systems
-To calculate the local ABC classification twice a year
-To calculate the product local segmentation based on volatility and demand patterns twice a year

Control:
-To follow up all the actions agreed in the S&OP process
-To review the forecast accuracy for its DFUs
-To define and agree the KPI targets for the memebers of the team
-To compare budget vs valued sales forecast and understand the discrepancies
-To monitor big forecast changes from one month to the following
-To ensure communication and feedback to Marketing and commercial department and GDP

Ver curso: Local Demand Planner With Fluent English