Demand Planner at Unilever

Ref No: R-10299

Main Job Purpose

• To provide the company with an updated weekly demand forecast.

Key Accountabilities

• Maintains rolling forecast for 13 weeks + 15 months on a SKU level
• Gets updates on local and central promotions and uses this information for forecasting
• Provides the markets with a weekly update on various promotions and innovations
• Is responsible to make changes/ updates in the forecast
• Gets information from category teams on all other activities e.g. trade deals, home care drive and accordingly changes/ updates the forecast
• Maintains an active/ valid list of SKU in the demand list
• Maintains a SKU mix in relation to the % of sales
• Maintains weekly forecast split
• Submits the forecast to commercial finance which forms a basis for financial forecast
• Keeps track and records issues regarding forecast accuracy, forecast consumption (Actual sales vs. forecasted sales)
• Drives market specific improvement projects to increase forecast accuracy
• Is a part of the various other improvement projects e.g. foods forecasting, promotion forecasting and drives the action plan
• Provides analyses at the required level of detail- SKU, brand, market, channel

Requirements
Experience Required:

• B.Sc Sciences (Economics, Statistics, Sociology or Industrial Engineer)
• Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in FMCG experience

Professional Skills:

• High analytical skills
• Advance excel skills
• Should have good interpersonal skills
• Influencing skills in order to influence category teams
• Planning an organizing skills
• Organizational awareness- they should know their counterparts in various teams

Stakeholders
Internal:

• Supply planners in the 3 SC, Category planners, sales forecasting teams, marketing/ brand managers, commercial finance.
• The role has to interact with them to resolve issues e.g. make changes in forecast.
• They need to use their influencing, negotiating skills in order to reach an agreement on the numbers

External:

• None