Demand Planner at Guinness Nigeria Plc - Lagos and Edo

Guinness Nigeria Plc is a major market for Diageo: Guinness Nigeria operates in the unique and fast-growing alcohol industry of over 15mhl beer potential. It is the only company that does Total Beverage Alcohol (TBA) in Nigeria. It’s an on-trade-dominated market but with a fast-growing off-trade channel.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Demand Planner

Job ID: JR1075549
Location: Ogba Brewery, Lagos
Job type: Full-time
Work type: Regular

Description

• The Demand Planner is responsible for embedding standardization and implementation of initiatives to achieve an outstanding Demand Planning function.

Responsibilities
You will be responsible for:

• Pro-actively works with the S&OP Manager and the IBP Leads, being responsible for the statistical forecast and highlighting deviations to the shipment and/or depletion trends.
• Use and maintain the APO software as the primary forecasting system tool
• Collaborate with IBP Lead on all forecast history cleaning activities including detailing adjustments and assumptions (market trends, seasonality, promotions).
• Maintain statistical parameters for “best fit” model & generate a baseline at least 18 month rolling.
• Maintain APO master data including CVC creation, disaggregation factors and attributes.
• Analyse outliers through appropriate reports and make corrections.
• Provide reports and insights to collaborators to improve the use of baseline forecast.
• Build the S&OP pre-read packs as per the codification formats.
• Update Tier critical metric slides on weekly and monthly basis for assigned markets
• Collaborate with IBP Leads to conduct root cause analysis to identify drivers of forecast error and work together to take the vital corrective action to drive continuous improvement in forecast accuracy and bias performance.
• Regular review of codification progress through verification tracking. Ensure rigorous adherence to business processes and interactions with CoE
• Analyse performance issues and define specific improvement actions and plans by country to address these, ensuring plans are followed-up and implemented
• Drive action plans to completion in pilot markets where OnePlan have been launched already as defined
• Provide regular status updates to the market key customers and
• Ensure successful delivery of the implementation timelines for S&OP improvement roadmap as agreed with Africa FD and exec.

Requirements
To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Master’s in industrial engineering or Business Administration.
• Institute of Business Forecasting & Planning CPF (Certified Professional Forecaster) qualification.
• Proven capability in driving continuous improvement within end-to-end supply chains.
• Expert understanding of Demand Planning and S&OP Processes and associated Diageo systems (i.e. SAP APO Demand Planning module).
• Strong customer engagement skills.
• High degree of quantitative and analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills - verbal, written and presentation.
• Customer centric mind set.
• Proficient in MS applications e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.