Demand Planning Manager

Job Responsibilities / Tasks

• Lead monthly demand review meetings with Category Managers and Sales Heads to align on demand assumptions, commercial inputs, promotional calendars, and planned activities, ensuring a consensus demand forecast.
• Lead the preparation and presentation of demand planning inputs for monthly pre-S&OP meetings, highlighting forecast changes, performance gaps, risks, and opportunities to Marketing, Sales, Finance, and Supply Chain stakeholders.
• Consolidate demand-related inputs for the monthly Executive S&OP review, presenting key assumptions, scenarios, and decisions required from senior management.
• Represent Demand Planning in regional sales review meetings, translating market developments, sales performance, opportunities, and challenges into actionable forecast adjustments.
• Partner with Marketing, Sales, and Supply Chain to develop and monitor depletion plans for slow-moving inventory, minimizing obsolescence and write-offs.
• Own demand forecast performance by analyzing historical sales, seasonality, promotional effectiveness, and demand drivers; monitor forecast accuracy and bias and lead corrective actions to improve reliability.
• Manage and maintain the rolling demand forecast, ensuring timely validation, alignment, and communication to relevant stakeholders to support supply, inventory, and business planning.
• Govern demand changes throughout the planning cycle, ensuring revisions are documented, assessed for business and supply implications, and communicated between Sales and Supply Chain in line with agreed planning timelines and freeze periods.
• Lead demand risk and opportunity assessments, develop scenarios, and coordinate mitigation plans with cross-functional stakeholders to support service levels, inventory targets, and business objectives.

Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management or a related field preferred.
• Minimum 8 years of demand experience in FMCG. 

Skills / Qualifications

• Strong business acumen with outstanding analytical and problem solving skills. 
• Well-organized, logical & mature thinking, attention to details, dedicated, energetic, independent, and proactive.
• Strong command of both written and spoken English. 
• Practical experience in SAP is a plus