Demand Planning Manager at Guinness Nigeria Plc

Guiness Nigeria Plc - We are Guinness Nigeria, member of Diageo Plc the world's leading premium drinks business with an unrivalled collection of beverage alcohol & non-alcohol brands across the Spirits, Wine & Beer categories.

Diageo is the world's leading premium drinks business with an outstanding collection of beverage alcohol brands across spirits, beer and wine. We are continuously interested in talented individuals who want to progress their careers and make a difference to our business.

Job Title: Demand Planning Manager

AutoReqId: 40225BR
Location: Lagos
Reports To: Sales & Operations Planning (S & OP) Manager

Job Description
Context/Scope:

• The Demand Planner creates and maintains forecast models for Guinness Nigeria and Diageo Brands Nigeria customers, incorporating business intelligence and forecast information gathered from sales, marketing, finance, sales operation, and other sources (i.e.: Nielsen or other syndicated consumer data).
• The Demand Planner is the integration point into the sales and marketing organizations. Basic forecast modeling is the responsibility of this position. This position leads the dialogue each month for their respective customers and products with key counterparts in Sales, Customer Marketing and Marketing. Copied from: www.hotnigerianjobs.com

Dimensions:

a) Market Complexity

• The Alcoholic beverage industry is highly competitive with 3 key players and constantly expanding with low end entrants. Spirits consumption is expected to fuel more growth within the industry.

b) Leadership /Functional Capabilities

• Ability to work with and gain alignment from relevant decision makers , embrace change and take ownership.
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal skill to build amazing relationship
• Demonstrate strong analytical skill and logical approach to decision making
• Communicate clearly & use information to influence decision making.

Purpose of Role

• To ensure that the best possible short, medium and long term forecast of demand for all Guinness Nigeria Plc & Diageo Brands Nigeria products are available at all times.
• Work with customer marketing, marketing and sales team by providing and maintaining very robust informed and statistically based forecast of forward demand for Guinness Nigeria Plc & Diageo Brands Nigeria.
• Manage monthly demand planning process with proper documentation of assumptions, identified risk and business opportunities for Guinness Nigeria Plc & Diageo Brands Nigeria

Key Accountabilities

• Developing baseline statistical forecast using demand planning system
• Supporting the Sales & Operations Planning (S & OP) Manager to embed Sales and operations planning in the market.
• Maintain demand planning system and software
• Providing detailed analysis of forecast trend and accuracy to guide the gap management process
• To manage the escalation of demand issues and facilitate effective solution to shortfall in the plan-both tactical and operational.
• Conducting root cause analysis and corrective action planning to understand sales forecast accuracy &Bias
• Ensure effective Marketing & Evaluation (M&E) analysis of the assumption and input used to develop activity forecast. Copied from: www.hotnigerianjobs.com

Skills,Qualifications and Experience Required

• Graduate calibre in the Sciences, Social Sciences or other relevant field.
• A Master's degree in business is an added advantage
• 5 years Supply Chain planning experience with a proven track record including demand, minimum 2 years Supply Chain experience in an FMCG
• Previous experience of Advanced Planner & Optimiser (APO) & SAP Enterprise Central Components (ECC's) is preferred
• Prior experience in similar planning roles preferred (Demand Planning, Production planning, Commercial/Sales Planning etc.)
• Excellent Communication and influencing Skills
• Strong understanding of core Demand Management process and understanding of forecasting heuristics
• Good knowledge of the end to end supply chain and the impacts of the demand signal
• Knowledge of market dynamics is preferred
• Demonstrated analytical skills in prior roles
• Excellent IT skills including Microsoft office
• Strong interpersonal skills.

Barriers to Success in Role

• Inability to employ analytical skills to contemporary problems.
• Inability to influence broadly across all internal (across levels) and external stakeholders to achieve expected objectives

Application Closing Date
10th February, 2014.

How To Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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