Kimberly-Clark is looking for a Demand Planner.
Main Purpose of Job:
Making statistical and expertise analyses of demand in Russia, part of S&OP cycle facilitation, planning tools support and development.
Main Responsibilities:
Forecasting and Planning:
- Forecast accuracy for certain categories and service level drive for improvement with action plan forming
- Statistics and expert analysis of demand in Russia
- Support in evaluation of the effectiveness of marketing and sales campaigns in the region
- Formation of the forecast demand in Russia at SKU level in terms of the day, week, month
- Deep root cause analysis on forecast errors, drive strong action plan upon them and clear message distribution to comm.team
- Post-analysis of forecast to detect the real effect of the volume of activities, innovations, promotions and other (in entrusted region)
S&OP process improvement
- Facilitating part of Demand Review for certain product categories (Demand alignment meeting). Forecast activity coordination, challenge bottom-up volume, bring expertise via analytics and indicate main influence factors on demand. Driving action plan for better change
- Operating with close collaboration with Sr Demand Planner for S&OP tasks and forecast operational tasks (Sr Planner leads operational cycle for 3 persons: Sr Planner itself, Demand planner, Collaborative demand planner)
- Participation in projects to improve forecasting tools (Anaplan continuous improvement – key user, new forecasting tool testing and support in implementation Q4’20)
- Cooperation with Planning, Logistics and Customer Service Specialist for maximum operating efficiency
- Financial forecasting support from Demand team
- Procedures facilitation, forming and alignment with other functions
Other Capabilities:
- Support and development of Anaplan S&OP tool across CEE region
- Bringing value and growing expertise for CEE demand community
- Bringing innovations to the processes, tools driving action plans for demand team & SOP crossfunctional team
- Cautious decision-making for S&OP volume, accelerating demand team response
- Improving business partner relationship with the commercial team
Required Qualifications / Experience:
- Higher education
- Experience in Demand planning 1 years as minimum and from 4 years in total in Planning/Analytics
- S&OP process leadership experience
- Analytical & organizational skills, good communication skills, pro-activity
- Knowledge of forecast methods; advanced Excel user
- SAP, APO and BW expertise
- Analytical skills
- Presentation skills
- Intermediate English