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07/07 Rohith Kumar
HR at AB InBev

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AB InBev - Principal Analyst - Demand Planning (2-3 yrs)

Bangalore/Any Location Job Code: 1122165

Diverse and inclusive workforce will bring us to better products and solutions. Therefore, we actively seek to enable the full contribution of our teammates through greater levels of diversity in our workforce and a spirit of inclusion within our environment

Anat Rokeah Global People Partner Solutions - Israel

Principal Analyst - Demand Planning


1. PURPOSE OF ROLE : Resource will be required to independently own and manage delivery of process activities of a Demand Planning process for the aligned market and effectively collaborate with market counterparts from Supply planning and Commercial teams. Resource will also be responsible to independently identify, solution and close initiatives to drive improvement on aligned KPIs, both with respect to process effectiveness and efficiency.


2. KEY TASKS AND ACCOUNTABILITIES :

1) IC role and the resource will be responsible to manage statistical baseline forecast & achieve best forecast accuracy for allocated country/market

2) Collaborate with aligned country/market DP partners to align on best forecast strategy for their portfolio

3) Able to understand nuances of aligned market/country to identify external causal factors and how they influence demand

4) Analyse and Understand thoroughly trend/Pattern/ Seasonality and product life cycle to select best statistical models

5) Know-how of standard and advanced statistical models - Model selection, Parameter modification and testing procedure of new models

6) Performing ABC-XYZ analysis, Outlier cleansing to generate accurate base forecast

7) Performing RCA for previous week performance taking appropriate action to ensure correct base forecast - For both Long term and Short term

8) Ability to determine right root cause across supply chain value stream - Demand vs Supply issues, impacting forecast accuracy. Knowledge of supply network planning process.

9) Will be managing New /End of life cycle products

10) Ability to prepare S&OP review documents with insights on key demand planning performance parameters and root cause analysis, Identify and label priorities, Top repeating issues etc.

11) Participate, Present and Contribute to market level S&OP process from demand planning perspective

12) Contribute and add value to the business through continuous improvement and process improvement

13) Managing SAP-APO - Master data maintenance for supply chain - E.g. CVC creation, Manual splits & proportion in tool

14) Ability to understand and evaluate impact on current ways of operation due to modifications in process basics, technology enhancements, business changes etc.

3. BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT :

- Maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders & address their concerns during daily, weekly, monthly reporting cycle

- Be closely connected with Business Operations and will report to DP lead for day to day operation

4. QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS :

Please list the following requirements :

Level of educational attainment required :

- Graduate in any stream, Post-graduate diploma/certification in supply chain/analytics / Machine learning will be added advantage

- Professional qualifications and accreditations/memberships required : Not relevant

- Previous work experience required

- 2-3 years of experience in Demand forecasting/Demand Planning for seasonal-non seasonal products, Should able to manage Base forecast independently, Familiar with statistical Modelling. Experience in managing client expectation

- Language skills required

- Fluent in English with good communication skill

- IT skills required

- Knowledge of SAP-APO, MS Office, especially good in MS excel, Power BI, Power Query. Knowledge of R or any other machine learning tool will be added advantage

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Maternity and Paternity Benefits

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