Demand Planning Specialist At Mondelēz International 

How You Will ContributeYou will:

• Contribute to the demand management cycle of the integrated business planning (IBP) process for your categories and to strategy and structure discussions
• Liaise with the commercial and operational teams and develop ways to continuously improve communication between the functions to support the delivery of the business KPIs for their families
• Manage forecast compilation process, which includes owning the short-term weekly plan and the long-term forecast (three or more months)
• Interact with modelling team to generate statistical forecasting
• Participate in the integrated business planning process and manage the demand planning tool
• Perform root-cause analysis for continuous plan improvement for key service issues, forecast error and bias, and share output with appropriate leadership

What You Will BringA desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• Experience in a fast-moving consumer goods or consumer packaged goods environment, preferably in food or other fast moving, dynamic industry where shelf life is a constraint
• Experience within an IBP/S&OP environment
• Able to influence cross-functional teams, working on priorities and improving the plan
• Excellent problem-solving skills, analytical skills – and able to understand and interpret data
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Team player who can work with many other functions on a daily basis

More About This RoleWhat you need to know about this position:

• Lead the monthly consensus meetings with commercial teams.
• Lead the new bi-weekly SOE meetings with commercial teams to monitor performance and
• plan achievement and communicating supply updates while highlighting any risks or opportunities on the short-term horizon & drive the migration from monthly to weekly planning horizon
• Roll-out digitalization for S&OE process
• Identify and calculating risks & opportunities for supply planning through attend demand and
• supply meetings to ensure all risks and opportunities are correctly captured and communicated for the med-long term horizon.
• Identify opportunities and negotiate/shuffle demand to improve stocks availability and meet NR (Net Revenue) Targets.
• Ensure the FG (Finished Goods) stock levels and quantity availability as per the agreed plan and
• boundaries by monitoring the daily stock levels and weekly actual production
• Work with PS team to achieve the business DIOH targets across all categories.
• Perform root-cause analysis for continuous plan improvement of SFA and BIAS KPI’s to improve overall supply chain process.
• Manage the system interface process for supply requirements between commercial and manufacturing through uploading supply on APO, validating the numbers and help to achieve the company targets for the whole system adoption
• Work with OTC & PS teams to ensure that DSO targets & CFR targets are met
• Lead E2E waste Management &monitor aging stocks to avoid unnecessary write offs and proposing liquidation plans across all categories.
• Work on new launches and phase-in-phase-out projects to ensure smooth transition without
• affecting the business
• Leading/Driving IL6S pillars within Demand Planning function.
• Development & Automation of planning related reports to provide visibility on short/long term Impact & enable decision making

Education / Certifications:Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or BusinessJob specific requirements:

• 3-5 years of experience in supply chain
• APO knowledge is a plus
• IL6S knowledge is a plus

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