Demand and Supply Planner - Head Office at Beta Glass Plc

Job Purpose

• This role is responsible for curating a demand forecast by products based on sales history and sales plan.
• The role also performs supply planning activities, ensuring stock availability/cover within target at optimized inventory and cost levels to meet current and future business needs.

Responsibilities

• Generate periodic (annual/quarterly/monthly) demand plan/forecasts and budget based on historical data, customer market visibility, stock level, business/sales trends, demand patterns etc. to ensure details needed are available for decision making.
• Coordinate demand planning process via detailed collaboration with sales team to drive demand accuracy.
• Coordinate monthly demand-review meeting with sales team to evaluate forecast trends, challenge numbers’ assumptions, understand demand driver and insure a full consensus on figures.
• Develop master production schedule for glass production, detailing production sequence and lead-time in alignment with (KAMs) & Plant Managers for each month.
• Work on all related reports for production planning, sales and inventory outlook used for material requirement planning, cash flow & warehouse planning.
• Intimate KAMs, Supply Chain Managers & Warehouse Supervisors on stock and Sales Order (SOD) availability
• Weekly Projection of sales target in alignment with KAMs to keep all hands-on deck to maximize sales.
• Drive and optimize inventory management to achieve costs reduction/working capital via inventory dispatch planning and variance tracking.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree or Higher National Diploma (HND) in Science / Management or other related fields
• 4-6 years’ experience
• Knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics Navision or any other Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software
• Knowledge of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint Presentation
• High Analytical, Numerical & Presentation skills.