Demand Planning Lead

Job Description
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Possible.
You will oversee demand planning activities for your assigned product families in your business unit or area. You will also support the demand review process, championing the integrated business planning process and driving interactions with the cross-functional teams.
How you will contribute
You will:

• Manage a forecasting team responsible for the development of an unbiased and unconstrained forecast over a 24-month period with properly documented assumptions
• Partner with category finance to support appropriate linkage between the monthly integrated business planning (IBP) forecast and financial forecasts (key assumptions, risks, opportunities)
• Partner with modelling team to generate statistical forecasting
• Partner with commercial leadership to quantify and validate risks and opportunities and support the development of plans to close gaps between the forecast and target
• Partner with innovation and equity to validate the sizing of innovations, renovations and campaigns as they enter the 24-month forecast
• Partner with supply planning to ensure there is confidence in the demand plan and that key forecast decisions are made by the appropriate stakeholders and with the appropriate amount of lead time to ensure the successful execution and delivery of the plan
• Manage, coach and develop a team driving continuous capability building in the demand planning team for planning improvement

What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• Comprehensive supply chain, economic, financial or logistics experience and strong business acumen, ideally in a fast-moving consumer goods or consumer goods environment
• Open to learn new ways of working and is willing to be hands on in using data and systems
• Significant experience driving demand review and participation in an IBP cycle
• Strategic agility, able to drive for cross-functional results by proactively understanding and managing key issues and success criteria, and prioritizing accordingly
• Project personal maturity and tact to effectively work with cross-functional team members to deal with conflicting priorities and ambiguity
• Strong senior leadership influencing skills and organizational agility. Able to build effective teams
• Knowledge of leading practice demand planning and end-to-end supply chain concepts
• Excellent problem-solving skills, analytical skills, and verbal and written communication skills

More about this role
• Maintains working knowledge of end-to-end supply chain components including forecasting, inventory management, promotional planning, basic department management, master data management, item lifecycle and disposition, seasonal planning, DC operations, store ordering and operations, supplier planning and order fulfilment
• Liaison with Product Marketing relating to New Product forecasting, including updating APO with current projections
• Knowledge of SAP APO/IBP/O9 or similar forecasting system preferred
• Use and maintain the Demand Planning AI/ML models as the primary forecasting system tool
• Cooperating to meet the needs of Marketing regarding the provision of embellished products
• Work with both Marketing, Channel and Sales on SKU level transition plan, track execution and call out risk and drive agreement when off-track
• Manage portfolio productivity with Marketing by target setting and driving necessary action
• Lead coordination efforts with operations, product management, finance, customer service, for product families within the business
• Develops multiple metrics to validate forecasting accuracy, as per industry standards and communicates corrective action(s) ensures timely resolution
• Interact with sales, marketing, and customer Service to understand demand forecast drivers
Experience & Knowledge required:-
• Min 10 years ' work experience in demand forecasting, big data modelling, analytics in FMCG sector
• Skilled in effectively translating mathematical information into business-friendly language
• Knowledge in causal modelling and time series techniques
• Knowledge in integrated supply chain systems
• Must possess business acumen relating to vision and purpose, strategic thinking and problem solving, and creative/innovative mindset
• Must be customer and market driven
• Team management experience
Within Country Relocation support available and for candidates voluntarily moving internationally some minimal support is offered through our Volunteer International Transfer Policy
Business Unit Summary
Mondelez India Foods Private Limited (formerly Cadbury India Ltd.) has been in India for over 70 years, making sure our mouth-watering and well-loved local and global brands such as Cadbury chocolates, Bournvita and Tang powdered beverages, Oreo and Cadbury Bournvita biscuits, and Halls and Cadbury Choclairs Gold candies get safely into our customers hands-and mouths. Headquartered in Mumbai, the company has more than 3,300 employees proudly working across sales offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai and in manufacturing facilities at Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh, at our global Research & Development Technical Centre and Global Business Hub in Maharashtra and in a vast distribution network across the country. We are also proud to be recognised by Avatar as the Best Companies for Women in India in 2019 - the fourth time we've received this award.
Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Job Type
Regular
Demand Planning
Customer Service & Logistics