Commercial Planning Manager

About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

About the role:

The Commercial Planning Manager develop and improve our Commercial Planning Processes through deep commercial and market insights that help us to generate investment efficiencies.

You have constant interaction with Channel Heads, Team Leaders, KAMs, MKT Managers, Commercial Finance Managers and Supply Managers.

Collaborate and coordinate commercial planning activities with key stakeholders both internally (Intelligence Tower & Growth) and externally to ensure and exceed our goals.

Functions:

• Integrated Business & Commercial Planning

• Consensus Forecast alignment.

• Scenario Planning, Short (S&OE) & Mid-term horizon

• S&OP administration (Sales Intelligence responsibilities) Leading the pre demand review (RBB - Reconciliation Building Blocks).

• Building Blocks tracking.

Leadership Responsibilities:

• Ability to inspire in others the value of understanding the Commercial participation in the IBP Diageo's Processes

• Rigor & Discipline in S&EO Process Management.

• The Commercial Planning Manager is co-responsible for leading and driving a collaborative and efficient S&OP across all the Organization.

• Work as a leader handling and influencing cross-functional and business partner teams to make decisions and get results.

Experience

• +5 years in Sales planning experience (Front Line or Back Office) including considerable experience handling S&OP process.

• Wider cross-functional experience preferable e.g. Commercial, Finance or Supply.

• Prior experience leading and embedding S&OP guideline ways of working

• High degree of quantitative and analytical skills.

Qualifications Required:

• In-depth knowledge of sales processes (Planning, Execution and Measurement) 

• Ability to develop a collaborative relationship with different teams and hierarchical levels within the organization

• A self-starter, action focused, with aim to create & hit your own goals

• Comfortable to move between strategy & execution

• Able to interface & influence key senior stakeholders in Finance, Supply, Marketing & Sales teams

• Operational rigor and attention to detail.

Flexible Working Statement:

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

Rewards & Benefits Statement:

We recognize and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including:

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 new heights and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

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