Coca-Cola Icecek Pakistan Jobs Demand Planning Specialist

 

Coca-Cola Icecek Pakistan is looking for Demand Planning Specialist (Reporting to: Demand Planning Executive) at Head Office, Lahore.

Purpose

The pivotal role's core agenda entails development, alignment and conformance on demand forecasts (one number principle) of all stakeholders across CCI PK to achieve strategic, tactical, operational primary sales volume targets. He/She will bridge and balance the demand supply gap through close collaboration with finance, marketing, sales and supply planning teams to ensure high customer service level & product availability while meeting business targets. He/She is also expected to contribute to and lead transformation projects to evolve the existing demand forecasting & deployment planning process.

Main Responsibilities

• Generating baseline & consensus forecasts on weekly / monthly basis in alignment with Marketing & Finance & Sales team.
• Monitor and review historical and current market trends & impact of upcoming events / campaigns / promotions to improve forecast accuracy.
• Providing deployment & plant based Sell In forecast volume on weekly/monthly/annually base in order to ensure operational requirement of supply and logistics planning.
• Managing Distributor Replenishment Process (VMI) indicators to ensure a sustainable replenishment order process for distributors and intercompany shipments in order to eliminate stock-outs.
• Determining distributors optimal stock policy based on the market volume, seasonality and the sales trends to ensure service levels and avoid market stock outs.
• Weekly rolling of primary and secondary sales volume forecasts in order to revise supply and deployment plans
• Optimizing source decisioning of distributors and intercompany shipments to minimize logistics costs and levelling stocking capacities.
• Coordinating Weekly / Monthly S&OP process to gather tactical actions among marketing, supply chain, sales and finance departments in order to achieve business targets.
• Highlighting gaps & misalignment in the demand and supply plan and make sure that necessary actions are taken by relevant stakeholders to bridge the gap.
• Highlight potential supply risks and ensuring all risks assessment are shared with related parties and are embedded in integrated business plan and annual rolling estimates.
• Tracking & analyzing shelf-life risky products and over-stock inventories at CCI Warehouses to eliminate write offs and disposals.
• Implement digital transformation projects in order to increase efficiency with optimized and standardized workflow & processes.

Candidate Education: 

Bachelors / Masters

Computer Science / Mathematics / Supply Chain background (preferred but not mandatory)

Capabilities

• 4+ years work experience (relevant experience preferred)
• Understanding of marketing & sales dynamics
• Proficient in MS Office and Data visualization tools (Power BI)
• Enthusiastic about Data Science & Data Analytics
• Ability to drive change, including enhancing, automating and simplifying processes
• Experience of working with large-scale data sets (data mining) and database management
• Experience or knowledge in using forecasting / optimization tools & relevant digital products
• SAP knowledge is a bonus (PP, MM modules)
• R, Python and/or SQL knowledge is a definite edge

Coca-Cola Icecek Pakistan Jobs Demand Planning Specialist