Analyst 3, Demand

SUMMARY JOB DESCRIPTION:_

The primary responsibility of demand & supply planner, LA (Latin America) is to play an active role in translating the key elements of the business & supply chain strategies into tactical functional initiatives to meet the service and objectives across LA region. As the owner of demand planning process for the businesses, this role will be responsible for leading and coordinating the monthly demand consensus producing an accurate consensus unit forecast that will drive supply and inventory planning and ensure that all available sales and marketing intelligence is incorporated in the unit projection.

As part of the S&OP process, the demand & supply planner provide analysis to the Demand Supply Integrated Reconciliation meeting with country key Business (Marketing /Sales) and Finance stakeholders to validate and reconcile the unit forecast with the financial projections.

This position will be in contact with a wide variety of functions internally (Supply Chain, Project teams, Marketing, Finance, plant ), both at LA region and Worldwide level, using the collaboration model with Countries and Region to drive a more efficient demand and supply planning process.

This role will define in a startup environment, which require a high level of flexibility and process development. The scope of the role encompasses, but is not limited to, supply and demand planning, product life cycle management, inventory optimization and information support to the S&OP, creation and maintenance of database for metrics and KPIs (such as back order, forecast accuracy, inventory trend, forecast reconciliation, etc)

The demand & supply planner, Supply Chain, LA reports directly to Supv, Demand and Supply Planning, LA. This role will be based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and covers LA region (Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, South Cone and associated indirect markets)
- RESPONSIBILITIES:_

Demand Planning
- Responsible to develop demand forecast through data analytics tools/statistical models which indirectly drive supply & production planning, and directly affecting the availability of inventory to customers. Works with Marketing/ Product Managers, Finance and Global Supply Planners to understand the impact of the forecast, the financial gaps, potential risk and opportunities.
- Driving Product classification in terms of volume & value share, demand volatility and strategic importance which is used to determine differentiated demand, supply and inventory strategy.

Supply planning
- Perform weekly supply review and analysis to drive optimization of both supply and inventory planning. Prepare BO, airfreight and revenue risk projection.
- Champion supply issues and influence Global/ Manufacturing decisions regarding capacity, supply and production allocations.
- Lead adhoc manual allocation and/or stockpile process and work with key stakeholders to ensure business priorities are met.
- Drive system solutions, improve planning accuracy & predictability, improve Inbound/outbound service level performance.

Inventory Management
- Work closely global planning to understand and establish the right stocking level, particularly on new product introductions or product discontinuation projects.
- Regularly review system planning master data and proactively cleanse it to drive optimized planning result
- Project monthly, quarterly and year-end inventory level, analyze performance & establish plans to drive metric improvement to target
- Identify Excess & Obsolete, follow through on disposition and reduction opportunities. Drives root cause analysis and CI to prevent new occurrence.
- Propose planning strategies & inventory policy to meet business objectives and the targeted service levels.

Key Supply Chain Operation Metrics and Business performance management
- Ability to set annual targets, monitors performance and establish plans and strategies to drive metrics improvement to target. Accountable for achieving targeted supply chain metrics: Forecast Accuracy, Line Fill Rate, Back-Order, Inventory Value and Turns
- Identify projects to drive supply chain service level, operational efficiency & cost reduction.
- Support WW and regional Supply Chain key initiatives to accomplish best in class supply chain metrics performance and improve production/distribution efficiencies and customer experience.
- EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION:_

EXPERIENCE:

- Experience with government purchasing activity (tender process) with a focus on forecasting, product lead times (production + in transit) and order timing analysis
- Minimum of 3 years demand, supply & inventory planning experience required.
- End-to-End Supply Chain experience, understanding of the 5 steps of the S&OP Process
- ERP experiences in SAP/4Hana, IBP, Power BI, SCM DP/SNP or other tools
- Track records of improving customer service level while simultaneously improving supply chain metrics performance and operation cost
- ERP implementation experience and or experience with SAP4H/IBP is a