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Demand Planner with ITALIAN - ITAGRIS 

Demand Planner ITAGRIS leads forecast management process for Italy, Greece and Israel by being part of commercial insights development and business plan integration into the S&OP process in order to build the consensus forecast. Has overall responsibility for ensuring robustness of content and consistency in execution, driving alignment of the financial and operational business plans and facilitating continuous improvement to the process in alignment with global standards.

• Support building the consensus demand forecasts for all Consumer Health (CH) Products in ITAGRIS
  • Prepare and study on consolidated unconstrained demand forecast suggestions before demand review meetings by using historical data, market insights in company data base or dashboards and also using statistical forecasts as an input
  • Use statistical demand planning digital tool as an advanced user and regularly perform maintainance of the system and monthly data updates in this digital tool
  • Prepare and facilitate demand review process and foster consensus between Marketing, Sales, Trade Marketing, Business Intelligence, Finance and Product Supply
  • Challenge volume and value forecasts with analytics of historic developments, market trend and up to date market insights
  • Run scenario planning with:

• • • Defining supply risks with product supply team and driving discussion on how to manage gaps and potentially fill gaps with other available products
    • Defining demand risk and opportunities based on refreshing market insights

• • Ensure the rolling 12-month consensus demand rolling forecast at SKU level and the long term (36-60 month) aggregated forecast for strategic exercises (i.e. financial budget)
  • After demand reviews identify gaps and changes vs. last cycle
  • Be part of S&OP meetings and share the holistic demand planning picture with country commercial head and commercial stakehlolders, if there are any escalation points or action needed topics, also open them into discussions during S&OP meetings
• Performance Management
  • Ensure the enhancement of the forecast quality by tracking the major demand planning KPI’s (FCA, BIAS, Statistical Forecast usage, Write off, Inventory, CFR) and monitoring global dashboards for measurements
  • Guide the decision for stock allocations (for Supply bottlenecks) by comparing forecast data by SKU and customer/channel/country
  • Monitor expiry dates and develop joint mitigation actions with commercial to minimize write off risks

Actively support product launches and phase out by participating in launch meetings and providing forecasts inc. pipefill and phase out activities.

Skills and Capabilities

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business or Supply Chain equivalent
• Professional experience: 5+ years in a Demand Planning or Supply Chain Department
• Proficient in oral and written English. Italian is a must.
• Having digital Mindset; easily adapts to and likes using different systems and digital tools (SAP, Tableau, Analysis for Office, OMP, etc), is open to new digital solutions, drives expansion of digital tools usage within his/her scope
• Has a good understanding of demand consensus processes
• Excellent knowledge of best in class forecasting processes
• Efficient written and oral communication skills to facilitate information flow across internal and external partners and senior Leadership
• Ability to collaborate effectively within a multicultural environment
• Strong team player
• Result-oriented with good analytical and strategic skills; ability to work and analyse big amount of data, identify patterns and use output to drive actions.
• Has the capability to seeing the big picture with ability to dive into the details
• Highly motivated, structured, and able to handle stressful situations; strong in trouble shooting, problem solving and high degree of proactivity

Location:

Spain : Cataluña : Barcelona  

Division:

Consumer Health 

Reference Code:

852449