Manager - Demand Planning - AgroTech

Job Description :

- Provide long term forecasts for annual budgets and long-range planning

- Revise FG inventory norms and take sign off from business head

- Coordinate with sales and marketing team and distribution team

- Plan and execute initiatives / interventions based on customer feedback to enhance customer satisfaction

- Collaborate with the Global Supply Planning team & Central Supply Planners long range capacity planning for respective plants

- Create base forecast based on statistical sales data (primary & secondary) and market intelligence

- Facilitate bottom up forecasts creation

- Discuss base forecast and bottom up forecasts with sales & marketing team and develop consensus forecast

- Upload consensus forecast in system and share with Supply Planning Team

- Maintain hygiene and integrity of master data (inventory norms, transit lead time, outdated forecasts / orders, potential expiry / expired stock, unwanted sales orders / open deliveries, NPL indicators)

- Review production plans prepared by supply planners by assessing impact on FG inventory across the pipeline

- Share inputs on fine-tuning the production plans based on prioritization among SKUs

- Represent the respective portfolio from a demand planning perspective in the pre-S&OP and S&OP forecasting

- Escalate cases of sudden additional/reduction in demand with back-up analysis to the demand & distribution planning head

- Monitor FG inventory across the pipeline (market warehouse, in-transit & plant) and fine-tune their FG inventory norms every 6 months

- Monitor slow and non-moving inventory and drive initiative to liquidate the same with respective sales teams

- Deliver on key supply chain metrics (Customer OTIF, Forecast Accuracy, Pending order, FG inventory, FG inventory write-off) and drive improvements based on root cause analysis.