Demand & Supply Planner

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Possible.

You will develop rolling 3 Month forecast using statistical models and FAP Inputs for 150+ SKUs at SKU-Depot Level for the Branch Traditional Trade Channel. You will coordinate, challenge and influence building block with input from sales, marketing and other partners. In addition, you will review the disaggregated short-term demand plan, which includes SKU/location mix and weekly pacing. Finally, you will provide the finalized detailed demand plan by SKU to supply planners and adjust it based on feedback from supply planners or commercial teams

How you will contribute

• Contribute to the demand management cycle of the integrated business planning (IBP) process for your market 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
• Liaise closely with Supply Planning team to maximize availability at warehouses; Additionally, own the supply & deployment planning for all child warehouses.
• 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
• Anchor the Make-to-order process for select customers by understanding requirements and accordingly arranging supply for them
• Own and run the S&OE process at the market level along with commercial & supply chain stakeholders

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• Excellent problem solving, analytical and logical reasoning skills and able to understand and interpret data.
• Excellent understanding of Microsoft office applications, Power BI and other data analytical tools
• High-level of SAP competence
• Experience in demand and supply planning in an FMCG/ CPG company
• Team player who can work with multiple functions and manage multiple stakeholders

What you need to know about this position:

• Developing Rolling 3 Month forecast using statistical models (Moving Average/Swing) and FAP Inputs
• Collaborated with Sales, Central Demand Team to build NPIs & Seasonal trends into Baseline forecast
• Lead Weekly S&OE meeting aligning Field Sales Team & Supply Chain Team for Opps/Risk identification
• Monitoring Primary Sales, Secondary Sales & Norms to prevent Overstocking/Understocking at Depots/RDs
• Ensuring Supply Availability for SKUs to improve Range across warehouses through Inter depot Movements
• Coordinated with Supply Team to optimize days of cover at all depots & improve Fill rate
• Monitor and control inventory ageing through focussed interventions with the central commercial, demand and field sales team
• Achieve Best in Class KPIs targets including Forecast Accuracy and Bias , Customer service level across multiple channel and minimize inventory ageing
• Drive effective cross-functional communication among stakeholders including sales, demand planning, and product supply teams

General Skills / Attributes

• Effective written and oral communication. Actively demonstrates the Mondelz values and ways of working.
• Self-motivated and drive to take on challenges
• Ability to handle high stake conversations independently
• Eye for detail without losing focus on the big picture