Demand Planning Specialist

Responsibilities:
• Collecting, consolidating and inputting of the IBP data in various tools ensuring global and internal timelines are met
• Collecting and documenting Sales & Marketing assumptions and external factors
• Ensuring accuracy of the demand planning forecast data
• De-segregating demand plan down to article/SKU level and communicating with Supply Chain
• Providing statistical forecasting on article level based on sales order intake and planning assumptions, cleansing/revising the history of the data
• Identifying gaps for full horizon of demand plan vs strategic plan. Analyze magnitude of the gap and causes for the same.
• Facilitating gap closing activities with respect to channels and categories
• Facilitating monthly demand process
• Managing the forecasting tool and continuously fine-tuning methods
• Contributing to the requirements definition of broader business projects
• Driving the implementation of process efficiency improvements within Demand Planning
• Tracking market submission to deliver into the scorecard targets.