General Mills - Assistant Manager - Demand Planning - IIM/MDI/ISB

Job Summary :

This role will be responsible for coordinating with different stakeholders to carry out demand planning for India market operations.

Job Location: Mumbai

Responsibilities:

- Execute the demand planning process for India across various Business Units (Snacks, Haagen Dazs, Bakeries & Food Service, Atta, and Exports)

- Work with Sales and/or Marketing, and lead Consensus and PR, DR and MBR meetings; resolve demand-related queries

- Work closely with Marketing, Sales, and Supply Planning to help manage new product introductions, re-stages, and discontinuations

- Drive improvement in forecast accuracy by analyzing existing processes and making recommendations; drive tracking of the performance of SKUs. Accuracy tracking would be at the high level (monthly/item forecasts) and at lower levels of detail (Weekly/ item/location)

- Development of detailed consensus forecast.

- Review of weekly sales against forecast. Issues identified where volume fluctuations are out of range determined. Drives decision with sales/marketing to change forecast or keep as is. If the forecast is to be changed mid-month in a system, overrides will be implemented by demand planner with sales/marketing approval so that changes in Production, Purchasing, and all Supply Chain executions stay in sync

- Create and monitor a statistical forecast in SAP or an alternate ERP.

- Utilize existing exception management and develop new exception management to drive improvement in forecast accuracy.

- Work closely with Supply Chain representatives to resolve product deletion issues related to forecast accuracy. Must remain flexible and willing to react quickly to real and perceived forecast issues.

- Collaborate with Sales and Key Customers to incorporate customer specific information into the forecast.

- Drive continuous improvement by examining existing demand planning processes and making recommendations for improvement.

- Maximize the forecasting technologies available.

Academics:

Masters/Post Graduation from a Tier I institute

Experience:

2-4 years of demand planning preferably in FMCG or consumer-packaged goods industry.