Senior Manager - Demand Planner

Job Title: Senior Manager - Demand Planner

About the Function:  

Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team are problem-solvers, sourcing, producing, and delivering our much-loved brands to delight customers around the globe. Over half of Diageo’s 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It’s an intricate and sophisticated operation that’s the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations.

Our teams in 100 sites in over 30 countries cover production facilities, supplier relationships, customer collaborations and third-party agreements. We’re committed to realising our ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’ goals, to protect the environment and support our farmers and suppliers. Whatever your skills and experience, we’ll help you to thrive in our inclusive culture.

About the role:

Regional Demand Planner is a key managerial position responsible for S&OP function within the region. Regional Demand Planner collaborates closely with Supply & Commercial function for eastern region & HO. Role plays an essential role in the supply chain function by using analytical, marketing, and sales data of a company to effectively estimating future product demands and drive the demand planning process.

S/he will also play a critical role in driving the digital transformation of supply chain processes, leveraging existing and new platforms and tools to enhance planning capabilities for effective response to dynamic market environment.

Manage the monthly Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process with regions by balancing supply and demand while challenging the regions to provide realistic forecasts. The role will also be responsible for creating seamless flow of demand plan, lead the team to deliver high level of customer service and be an important stakeholder for commercial leaders to help delivering business growth while optimizing supply chain.

Role Responsibilities:

Primary Forecast Accuracy (M-1 80%, M-2 75% & Forecast Bias 5%)

Statistical forecasting & Demand Management specialist to analyze the drivers of demand in order to generate a forecast for a particular category

Sales drivers, Promotions and event impact forecasting

New product launches, tramlining, imports etc.

Timely forecast closures in F1-F5 S&OP cycle

Out Of Stock - Strategic 3.5% & Non-Strategic 6%

Cross-functional alignment (sales, marketing & supply)

Consensus building in S&OP meetings

Reconciliation of forecast vs. actuals & measurement (FA, Bias)

Exception management (spikes/dips) in the month

System Adherence and Change Management / 20% Improvement from baseline for Demand Planning

End-to-end ownership of demand plan

Mentoring junior planners or analysts

O9 Adherence

Flexible Working Statement: Flexibility is key to our success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations, our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported from day one.

Diversity statement: Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you. 

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