If you are ambitious, self-motivated, hardworking and a team player and interested in growing your career with an International FMCG business, please read through our job opportunity.
This role is for a 12 months Fixed Term Contract.
Key Purpose
Maintain data within the APO / IBP forecasting system to ensure a high quality forecast. Update the demand plan in line with the monthly cycle, making changes to demand guided by commercial and category updates
Key Responsibilities
* Identify master data issues and work with Master Data and GIS teams to ensure effective adjustment.
* Adjust historical sales to provide good base data for statistical forecasting and accurate data on historical promotions.
* Review APO / IBP alerts relevant to the role on a weekly basis, acting to resolve all high priority alerts, check all medium priority alerts and take action where necessary. In both cases reference commercial teams where appropriate.
* Review poor statistical forecasts and make recommendations to the APO / IBP Configuration Manager.
* Update and enter promotional forecasts in line with business requirements or support PLM team to enter promotions by helping with volume validation.
* Validate start forecasts volumes, manage the use of the APO / IBP control week in creating accurate forecasts and support PLM team appropriately.
* Ensure stop events in APO / IBP meet the needs of the business by ensuring the forecast and commercially agreed volumes are aligned or support PLM team appropriately.
* Ensure information relevant to forecasting is provided by the commercial teams and this is incorporated appropriately into the demand plan.
* Carry out demand reviews with Account Managers in line with the monthly cycle to capture all unconstrained demand, making adjustments to existing demand and / or adding new demand (including master data creation).
* Raise any concerns around quality of data / information provided with the Account Manager and to BU Demand Manager.
* Document all assumptions and support the preparation for the BU Demand Review.
* Update the demand plan with any constraints that have been applied.
Technical Competencies & Qualifications
* Minimum bachelor or equivalent experience
* Strong numerical and analytical competencies
* Comfortable with complex IT systems and processes
* Understand of statistical forecasting techniques
* MS-Office: good knowledge of Excel, Word, Outlook,...
* Languages: English mandatory
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