Demand Planning Manager

Role Purpose:

To lead the end-to-end demand planning process by developing accurate and reliable daily, weekly, monthly, and annual S&OP Process across all channels, regions, and product hierarchies, to ensure alignment between Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Sales, Finance, and relevant stakeholders

Job Accountabilities

• Develop and maintain weekly, monthly, and annual demand forecasts by channel, region, location, SKU, size, and flavors.
• Lead the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) cycle.
• Support SAP performance, diagnostics, auditing, and improvement across supply chain functions
• Analyze historical demand data, market trends, seasonality, promotions, and new product launches to build robust demand plans.
• Apply and continuously refine statistical forecasting models and demand planning tools.
• Monitor CFR, OOS, Cancellations, Deletions, and other KPIs performance and continuously improve.
• Align demand plans with sales ambitions, marketing initiatives, financial budgets, and supply constraints.
• Ensure demand plans are realistic, feasible, and aligned with production capacity and inventory policies.
• Identify and monitor slow-moving and obsolete (SLOB) items, highlighting risks and recommending corrective actions.
• Track demand risks, gaps, and opportunities, escalating issues proactively.
• Prepare and present forecast assumptions, scenarios, and risks to management and S&OP forums.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Business Administration, Economics, Engineering, Statistics, or related field

Qualification & Experience

• 5–8 years of experience in Demand Planning, Supply Chain Planning, or Commercial Planning
• Proven experience in SAP implementation, auditing, problem-solving, and execution
• Proven experience in multi-SKU, multi-channel FMCG environments
• Hands-on involvement in S&OP cycles and executive reviews
• Exposure to forecasting at SKU / size / flavor level is strongly preferred