Principal Accountabilities & Responsibilities

· Review historical sales trends, develop statistical forecast models, create forecast data with demand drivers, and evaluate forecast accuracy.

· Validation of forecasts from group companies and ensuring statistically vetted forecast goes into system.

· Analyze product demand in order to develop forecasts by week, month, and quarter at Global/Group company level

· Regular meetings and contact with sales team, to ensure that they are full aware of any changes in demand

· Owning the S&OP process for their customer set.

· Working on providing data analysis to the sales team, to allow them to build better forecasts

· Forecasts with market trends and fluctuations; offers recommendations for changes and improvements.

· Maintenance of master hygiene for finished goods, liaise with MPS to track availabilities of these goods

· Ensure all new product availability is made on time in order to have timely launches

· Maintain finished goods inventory as per company norms, execute inventory control measures to ensure the company minimizes stockholdings.

· Identification of slow moving/non-moving inventories and take this up with the companies for liquidation.

· Develop metrics to monitor inventory levels through regular reviews.

· Active planning for New Product launches and follow-up for repeat orders

· Generating MIS reports pertaining to Service Level/Sales Analysis.

· Close coordination with Customers to enhance sales and avoid sales loss.

Skills & Competencies Required

· Proficiency in statistics, forecasting and forecasting methods, production scheduling with an understanding of their financial and operational impacts.

· Must have worked in a core Demand Planning role.

. Must have come from the Personal Care, or Pharma industry.

· Strong Technical knowledge related to forecasting & demand planning

· The incumbent should be very good at Excel.

· Should be well versed with ERP systems, preferably JD Edwards (Oracle).

· Able to deal with large data sets and determine patterns and trends.

· Must have very strong analytical skills.

. Should have strong written and verbal English language skills

Positions Opened -

• Junior Executive
• Executive
• Senior Executive