Demand Planner at Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company

Coca-Cola HBC (Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company) is a bottling partner of The Coca-Cola Company. Coca-Cola HBC is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland and has a premium listing on the London Stock Exchange and secondary listing on the Athens Exchange. The Coca-Cola Company is the world's largest beverage company and operates in more than 200 countries.

Life at Coca-Cola HBC is fast-paced and challenging, with fair rewards and exciting learning opportunities. We promote an inclusive workplace, value diverse views and opinions and always appoint the best person for the job, ensuring equality in our shortlists and appointments. Take up the challenge. Join us!

We are recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title: Demand Planner

Location: Lagos

About The Role

• The Demand Planner is responsible for all the forecasting activities associated with the products within assigned region.
• The main goal of the Demand Planner is building forecast with sales team to improve Supply & Production Planning activities efficiently, to ensure weekly forecasting discussion takes place with main objective of addressing issues that affected current trend, root cause analysis and align with stakeholders and corrective measure define to improve future forecast review. Responsible for leading Regional S&OP process and drive forecast accuracy.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop demand forecasts (operational forecasts) at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizons as part of a demand planning function.
• Build demand forecast in line with standard planning cycles
• Lead forecast review with sales, drive integration across function to achieve consensus
• Interact with field sales and marketing to establish demand drivers
• Coordinate weekly regional S & Op meeting and drive cross-functional activities to ensure customers satisfaction and perfect order deliveries (DIFOTAI)
• Drive weekly forecast accuracy improvement actions
• Manage stock rotation in sales locations to mitigate business loss
• Connect with Commercial finance, Marketing and field sales to prepare promotions planning and track execution

Requirements

• University Degree or HND, ideally business-related Economics, Statistics, mathematics and Business Administration etc.
• 3-5 years’ experience, preferably in FMCG
• Good analytical skills
• Proven ability of results orientation and performance
• Demonstrated leadership with the ability to harness resources and teams to deliver results within pre-determined timeframes.
• Ability to form effective working partnerships across functions
• Proficiency in Microsoft office (Excel, power point)

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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