Market Collaboration Planner

Background & Purpose of the Job

This role demonstrates a mastery of handling complexity and navigating trade-offs to support the Business Unit. A master of demand planning and S&OP, this role translates insights and ensures that all cross functional inputs to the creation of a business forecast.  They are a citizen data scientist that can use and interpret data to derive a central forecast that is unbiased accurate and aligned at the Business Unit.

Who You Are

• You’re a born leader: Support the Business Unit S&OP discussions with deep understanding of the market.
• You’re a strategy guru: Empowered to lead strategic agenda to develop and refine the forecasting process, models and tools leading to improved accuracy.
• You’re a dot connector: Understand 100% and explain to their peers in Business Unit the composition of the auto-forecast.
• You love to win, and have fun doing it: Demonstrate passion for performance & pursuit of progress.
• You’re a changemaker: Drive step change in Supply Chain performance according to plan transformation program.
• You’re digital & data translator: Understand how to use data and tools to quickly connect dots and develop insights and action.
• You’re a culture & change champion: Work closely with cross functional colleagues both internally and externally as ONE TEAM and aligning expectations while holding others accountable.

What You’ll Do

• Gather business insights and help translating them into demand drivers for auto forecast modelling conducted by Demand and S&OP Planner in Business Operations Organization, aiming to improve the quality.
• Support the Business Unit discussions with deep understanding of the market.
• Ensure updated and agreed volume forecast are submitted and aligned with financial forecasting.
• Monitor and evaluate the building blocks.
• Support the portfolio management and segmentation.
• Key Performance Indicators
• Constrained Forecast Accuracy (1-, 3-, and 6-month lag)
• Constrained Forecast Bias (1-, 3-, and 6-month lag)
• VVD
• AGS Score
• Dispatch Rate
• Process Adherence

What You’ll Need To Succeed

• Bachelor’s degree in Operations / Supply Chain or equivalent experience.
• 2-3 years of relevant experience in Supply Chain, Planning (with a large focus in Demand Planning).
• Proficiency using Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI and MS Project; FEU and Rapid Response System knowledge is preferred.
• Strong communication skills with an ability to deliver complex information to a variety of audiences with impact.
• Creative mindset with the ability to look at a problem with a number of different perspectives and ideas for a solution.

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