Demand Planning Executive

Position Snapshot

Location: Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MY

Permanent – Full Time

Position Summary

Joining Nestlé means you are joining the largest Food and Beverage Company in the world. At our very core, we are a human environment – passionate people driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. A Nestle career empowers you to make an impact locally and globally, as you are provided with the opportunity to make a mark and stand out, as long as you seek it. With Nestle, you are enabled and encouraged to grow not only as professionals, but also as people.

The Demand Planning Executive will look to improve the accuracy and reliability of the Demand Plan through projection of the most realistic estimate of customer demand and manage exceptions to enhance the responsiveness of the organisation's Supply Chain in fulfilling customer demand.

Day in a life

• Maintain Data and Systems
• Create and maintain the appropriate master data in the planning systems in use, minimising errors, and avoiding duplication and obsolescence.
• Maintain system hygiene and health to ensure demand signals are not polluted, in close collaboration with Customer Services.
• Collate Information and Assumptions
• Ensure commitment from all functions, build and maintain good communication and collaboration both within Supply Chain and with Sales and Marketing, Manufacturing and Finance, according to the Monthly Business Planning (MBP) best practices.
• Capture, prioritize, analyze and input Marketing and Sales events; customer, consumer & competitor information; other external / internal trends and influences which impact demand.
• Manage Portfolio and Lifecycle
• Effectively use all Demand Planning system functionality to enable an exception based management approach, inspired by the "Animal Farm" methodology.
• Maintain the systems to reflect the lifecycle of products (predecessors, successors, temporary promotional variants, …).
• Collaborate with Marketing and Sales by providing input on a regular basis regarding product launches, portfolio optimization, rationale of commercial decisions, promotions and customer behavior.
• Develop and Maintain the Forecast
• Use appropriate statistical forecasting models and parameters, enrich statistical forecasts to generate accurate demand forecasts.
• Generate and maintain a demand plan for a given portfolio of products, locations and/or customers, at the levels (product hierarchy and time) at which business decisions are taken.
• Focus on and deliver a stable demand plan, but taking into account appropriately recent events, along with achievement of Demand Plan Accuracy (DPA), controlled variability of accuracy and no systematic bias.
• Ensure that business planning is operated at the correct level of aggregation (product hierarchy and time).
• Share and Publish the Forecast
• Through systematic reporting, provision of links or ad-hoc reports and communications, ensure that Demand Plan information is available to internal business partners as required.
• Cascade knowledge of Best Practices and tools to other Demand Planners.
• Track and Manage Demand
• Actively follow-up actual sales to customers and sell-out (POS) data to identify exceptional or unforecasted activities.
• Drive fast, appropriate actions to minimize the impact of deviations from the Demand Plan. Communicate these actions to stakeholders.
• Measure and Track Performance
• Consistently improve Demand Plan Accuracy (DPA accuracy level and variability) and drive out systematic forecast bias through detailed analyses of past performance. Track errors using DP Reason Codes and maintain an efficient Learning Log.
• Implement improvements to Demand and Supply Planning processes and tools to deliver tangible benefits (e.g. time savings, increased efficiencies).
  
  

Key Experiences:

Two or more years of relevant operational experience at market / business level, in at least one of the following areas:

• Sales, Key Account Management
• Commercial Development Team
• Customer Service
• Supply Planning
• Marketing
• Finance: Business Planning / Dynamic Forecasting
• Supply Chain Development
  
  

If not held a commercial role before joining Demand Planning, a mission to a Sales related function is strongly recommended.