Assistant Manager - Demand Planning

Location

Bangalore | India

Job description

Assistant Manager - Demand Planning - CPG049093

With a startup spirit and 115,000 + curious and courageous minds, we have the expertise to go deep with the world’s biggest brands—and we have fun doing it! We dream in digital, dare in reality, and reinvent the ways companies work to make an impact far bigger than just our bottom line. We’re harnessing the power of technology and humanity to create meaningful transformation that moves us forward in our pursuit of a world that works better for people.

Now, we’re calling upon the thinkers and doers, those with a natural curiosity and a hunger to keep learning, keep growing. People who thrive on fearlessly experimenting, seizing opportunities, and pushing boundaries to turn our vision into reality. And as you help us create a better world, we will help you build your own intellectual firepower.

Welcome to the relentless pursuit of better.

Inviting applications for the role of Assistant Manager - Demand Planning

· Strong understanding of supply chain and supply planning business drivers, organization structures and key metrics. Well-developed interpersonal / communication skills.

· Ability to balance priorities across multiple internal and external stakeholders

· Ability to learn new systems quickly and leverage systems and information to influence others

· Understand supply chain & procurement principals.

· Experience in multi-echelon inventory optimization

Responsibilities

· The position is responsible for Maintaining capacity plans, production schedules and/or finite schedules to ensure the efficient delivery of inventory, service, and cost objectives.

· Provides supply planning expertise to the commercialization of new products or resolution of key inventory shortage issues.

· Schedule finished goods production for each assigned product group. Supply recommendations are based upon scheduling parameters and system settings that are developed and maintained to support sales goals, inventory financial targets, as well as minimizing the age of a product when shipped to a customer.

· Coordinate activity that impacts Brand's ability to maintain constant and sufficient product supply, ensuring communication with Customer Service, Sales, Marketing, and other internal customers

· Manage and control finished goods inventories for assigned items in order to achieve the company's financial targets along with utilizing old age reports to determine action required to initiate salvage sale or disposal of product

· Participate in department and company initiatives requiring the expertise of a supply planner. Activities could include but are not limited to consensus seasonal teams, new product introduction teams, supply chain cost optimization opportunities, or business process initiatives.

· Initiate product listing/delisting/withdrawal in conjunction with Marketing.

· Acting swiftly on high priority issues (escalations from high priority customers) and supporting their resolution with ownership

Qualifications we seek in you!

Minimum Qualifications

· PG in Supply Chain or Logistics

· APICS affiliation and/or certification

• Superb analytical and problem-solving skills

· Ability to work in a multicultural environment.

· Relevant. of experience

Preferred Qualifications/ Skills

· Supply Chain related experience in Supply Planning, preferably in CPG/Consumer Electronics company

· Working knowledge of any of the ERP & Planning systems like SAP, JDA Manugistics, APO, Kinaxis etc

· Knowledge of Analytical tools like Power BI, Tableau

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