Associate Manager, Demand & Supply Planning

POSITION SNAPSHOT

Location: Kuwait
Company: Nestlé

POSITION SUMMARY

Leading bottom-up consensus demand plans in Country through an efficient alignment across stakeholders, while ensuring supply by providing visibility and coordinating with different functions for onetime availability

A day in the life of...

• Leading Pre-Alignment meeting in Country (depending on the cluster organizational structure) through an efficient alignment across stakeholders by capturing, prioritizing, and analyzing input from Generating Demand on events; customer, consumer & competitor information; other external / internal trends and influences, that impact planning
• Ensuring that Sellout/IMS data is used (wherever applicable) in building the bottom-up consensus demand plan with commercial team, and highlighting risk (if any) of exceeding trade coverage policy through cluster MBPC
• Building bottom-up Risks & Opportunities through an efficient pre-alignment meeting, ensuring the flow of data into cluster MBPC for decision making that will help in driving optimum levels of supply accounting for potential risks & opportunities
• Support automation roadmap and drive focus in MBPC by adopting AI tools outcome (providing that it gives similar or better accuracy for tail end SKUs)
• Ensuring supply by coordinating with different functions (clearance team, category supply planners, ...etc.), while providing visibility to commercial team for on time availability.

• Coordinating with local A&P team to ensure on time execution and availability of promo stocks in line with promo planning SO

What will make you successful…

• 2+ years of relevant operational experience at market / business level, in at least one of the following areas:

• Demand Planning
• Supply Planning
• Customer Service & Logistics
• Procurement
• Statistical Analysis

• If not holding a commercial role before joining Demand Planning, a mission to a sales related function is strongly recommended
• Advanced in using Microsoft Office – (Excell)
• Very good to Fluent English