Job Description

The Market Collaboration lead will be owning the demand planning & replenishment for his respective markets on all mars snacking portfolio.

This includes Owning the consensus forecast in the market for their portfolio, in periods for the full horizon (up to 39 periods), ensuring sign off from the market heads & respective sales director through the S&OP forums, PRE-DMRS& DMRs.

The job also includes cross functional collaboration with sales, channel development, marketing, finance, CCL on maintaining forecast drivers (building blocks), assessing trends, evaluating risks and opportunities, and managing upside and downside scenarios.

The role is owning cluster replenishment & availability management which reflects into service as well as ensuring a balanced inventory/cash within each market maintaining a healthy business outlook.

This role will lead a team of associates and will facilitate the PRE-DMR & plays a crucial role in NALT DMR and MEA SMR.

Key Responsibilities

• With specific focus on 4+ periods planning horizon key to the role is ensuring a balanced forecast that considers the statistical base, the history and all associated building blocks factoring in relevant input (e.g., promotional activity, distribution changes, marketing campaigns) for their portfolio. This requires the ability to create and analyse different scenarios against a defined set of metrics.
• Owns the Consensus forecast for the Market taking onboard the historical inputs, and market trends as the major building block for their portfolio in periods for the full horizon to drive the supply plan
• Leads the PRE-DMR meetings in the market providing the insights for the consensus forecast across the full horizon and owns the inputs of the cluster in NALT DMR
• For this cluster, Navigating geopolitical challenges & taking crucial business decisions requires additional in depth understanding and leadership from this role.
• Maintain forecast drivers for the portfolio, understands drivers of base sales trends (last year, previous years and YOY), upside and downside scenarios
• Assess trends, risks and opportunities together with the Sales, Marketing and Finance teams
• Incorporates approved upside and downside scenarios on top of the system generated forecast at appropriate level of hierarchy
• Lead the full replenishment plan enabling the right stock cover taking into account the lead times and related risks.
• Ensure market availability within target, escalate & take corrective actions when needed
• Work on reaching service levels through the right supply and demand balance.
• Escalate short term forecast issues (unplanned demand) to network planning team
• Assess short term availability and market opportunities& escalate to network planning teams when intervention and support is needed.
• Own demand and supply KPIS for his cluster.

Experience / Background

· BSc or BA in engineering, economics or business.

· >10 years of demand management experience for a global or multi-plant CPG/FMCG company

· >10 years of experience in Planning across different areas.

· E2E understanding of Supply Chain with detailed experience in Demand Planning, Supply Planning, S&OP, Inventory Management

Education and Professional

• BSc or BA in supply chain management, or any other business or engineering related degree
• Internships in relevant areas
• 10 years logistics, planning or procurement experience for a CPG or retail company
• Fluency in English is a must