Third Wave Coffee - Lead - Planning & Risk Management

A planning & risk management head is responsible for the entire planning piece - sales planning, new store sales planning, promotional calendar, OTBs (budgets), analytics, pricing and markdown analysis inputs, margin management.

Responsibilities:

- Responsible for planning process (E2E)

- Track KPIs and set benchmarks in performance. Align Processes to deliver based on these KPIs

- Regular Strategic Business Reviews - coordinate, develop content in conjunction with strategy and analysis

- Work closely with sales/ops, marketing team, strategy & team ensure healthy sales and bottom line

- Develop senior level relationships & facilitate executive networking

- Escalate issues, pre-empt sales and margin forecast and ensure timely interventions to ensure achievement of all KPIs

Job Requirements:

- 12+ years of experience of planning function for a retail/FMCG/QSR company

- Has a proven track record in using analytics as a tool to achieve KPIs

- Has experience in preparing Annual Operating Plans as well as Sales plans

- Holds very strong problem-solving & analytical skills.

- Has strong presentation skills, as well as the ability to front-end Business review discussions

- Understanding of Finance, operations and marketing.

- The ideal candidate is a leader who can work with multiple teams to deliver the results.

- Work daily in a fast-paced unstructured environment, in a rapidly growing industry.

- Prioritise and execute with an unwavering commitment to exceed organization goals

- Drive process innovation

- Experience in building a planning team from ground zero