Sr Demand Planner India

Sr Demand Planner India

Job Description

As a person, you’re a learner – a natural leader – someone who is always taking initiative to make things better and bring others along with you. You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity and quality, always ensuring your responsibilities become a long-term success story. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU. 

In this role, you will:

• Lead the demand planning team and work closely with sales/marketing and suppliers to define optimal stock replenishment plan for all categories.

• Lead S&OP process as per K-C gold standard.

• Ensure appropriate inventory level and maximize the fill rate for our customers.

• Plan, manage and execute the bonus pack production.

• Manage System Operation (FTS, Arete & OTC) to ensure good system performance and support business needs and drive for system enhancement.

• Lead & participate the regional Procurement & Supply Chain initiatives and projects.

• Drive and streamline the local operation.

• Continuously benchmark Demand planning process and drive gap/ excellence through gold standard S&OP steps

• Drive digitalisation projects mainly related to E-com forecasting process

• Help sales to solve all supply issues and cooperate with sales/TMKT team closely to improve Forecast.

• Accuracy and achieve a high service level with optimized inventory. Smoothly communicate with Sales Logistics, Mill operations, Marketing teams to provide better product supply service for internal and external customers. Optimize company working capital through effective inventory management to support company fast growth.

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth, and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results.

In one of our Manufacturing roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

• MBA (Specialization in Logistics & Operation) from a NITIE/ Premier B School / Graduate preferred

• Manage the end to end supply chain processes which include the inventory strategy, demand planning, supply strategy & distribution strategy

• Work closely with customer service team to maximize order fulfillment & improve the service level

• Work closely with sales and marketing teams to optimize the demand projection and transform the latest demand into the replenishment plan.

• Work with cross functional team to lead the new product launch or new category launch with clear short-term & long-term goals.

• Drive and facilitate the monthly demand review meeting, deliverables compliant to S&OP processes

• Constantly review and report the slow moving and obsolete products to Sales & Marketing teams for action calling.

• Partner with the supplying affiliates to smooth out the supplying problems and simplify & automate the operations. Drive to deliver all the supply chain KPI.

• Co-ordinate & provide guideline to procurement on goods & service e.g. 3 P sourcing, import, special materials

• Conduct the competition, portfolio demand and cost analysis for various initiatives for the product categories to establish emerging trends & drive actions

• Manage System Operation (FTS, APO & OTC) for any issues and support business needs to drive for system enhancement

• Manage the demand planning team’s performance and responsible for people development and engagement.

• Assist the supply chain head to design, formulate, and execute the improvement initiatives for the local working processes.

• Assist SC head for long term capacity planning & footprint analysis, source vs. produce analysis along with marketing, finance & operations.

• Ensure the RTC & FTS are all compliant to the company’s policy & procedures

• Develop demand forecasts (operational forecasts) at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizons as part of a demand planning function in discussion with sales & marketing functions

• Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop statistical forecast models, and evaluate forecast results.

• Coordinate cross-functional research activities to reconcile significant variances and refine the forecast model to reflect updated sales and marketing assumptions.

• Interact with sales, marketing, and customer finance to understand demand forecast drivers.

• Utilize a collaborative and consensus approach by working with Sales, Marketing and Customer Finance to obtain and ensure that current and accurate information is used for demand forecasts.

• Use and maintain the Demand Planning tools as the primary forecasting system tool.

• Provide input to the Supply Planning organization in developing inventory strategies on existing items, new products, and product phase-outs.

• Closely coordinate and communicate customer action plans with supply planning

• Inventory Management

• Track slow moving inventory and inform about goods likely to expire to sales head for taking extra steps for liquidation

• Production plan validation

• Dispatch and logistics manageme

• Create base forecast based on historical sales data (primary and secondary) and market intelligence

• Assimilate and collate bottom up forecasts from Regional Teams for each Cluster/ Division

• Discuss base forecast and bottom up forecasts with sales & marketing team and develop consensus forecast

• Upload consensus forecast in required templates/ tools and share with Supply Planning Team

• Ensure hygiene and maintenance of master data (inventory norms, transit lead time, outdated forecasts / orders, potential expiry / expired stock, unwanted sales orders / open deliveries, NPL indicators) Actively Participate in pre-S&OP and S&OP process and meetings and ensure adherence to stated Timelines

• High resilience and energy in a fast paced and changing environment

• Learning and change agility

• Ability to win with limited resources

• Operational Excellence

• Leadership/Strategic thinking

• Able to communicate and deal with the different levels of the organization across functions especially Marketing, Finance and Sales

• Analytical capability, and able to make quick decisions to solve issues

• Strong Stakeholder Management skills

• At least 8-10 years of experience in managing Demand & logistics function

To Be Considered
Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our recruiting team will review your application and follow up if you seem like a great fit for this role.

In the meantime, please check out the careers website.

And finally, the fine print….

For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world. We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers. When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

Employment is subject to verification of pre-screening tests, which may include drug screening, background check, and DMV check.

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Primary LocationMumbai Corporate Office

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Worker TypeEmployee

Worker Sub-TypeRegular

Time TypeFull time