Manager - Demand Planning

Manager - Demand Planning

Job Description

Manager Demand Planning:
 

Your Job

An opportunity to enable exciting, mission-critical initiatives: Facilitate exciting, crucial missions with tangible top and bottom-line impact.  Get things done by collaborating with country operating teams.  Roll-up your sleeves to show the way in tackling challenges, when required.  Use your sharp, analytical instincts and deep functional knowledge to problem-solve! Bring your collaborative style, maturity and self-belief / confidence to make people ‘believe in the cause’ and execute flawlessly. 

A transformational experience: Kimberly-Clark is a winning company.

Be it marketing, sales, finance, supply chain or HR, our winning teams ensure we stay at the forefront of exciting changes: new channels, disruptions in traditional ways of marketing, ‘smart’ operations… We will provide you with the landscape.  You paint it with your business savvy, energy and attitude.  A chance to collaborate cross-functionally, add value to the business and enrich yourself from the experience.  No matter where you decide to go in future, this role is guaranteed to step-change both your business acumen and develop your leadership traits.

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You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world.

In fact, 25% of people in the world use Kimberly-Clark products every day.

We know that these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without skilled workers, like you.

Here, you’ll use your skills to make some of the most helpful things for billions of people all around the world - all in a safe, stable, and caring environment.

While our products support better lives for billions of people around the world, our company passionately supports the ability for over 45,000 employees to do their best work and enjoy life.

About You:

Job Description:

POSITION TITLE – Manager Demand Planning

REPORTING TO – Senior Manager Demand Planning

LOCATION- Mumbai

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES



* Develop demand forecasts (operational forecasts) at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizons as part of a demand planning function.


* Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop statistical forecast models, and evaluate forecast results.


* Coordinate cross-functional research activities to reconcile significant variances and refine the forecast model to reflect updated sales and marketing assumptions.


* Interact with sales, marketing, and customer finance to understand demand forecast drivers.


* Utilize a collaborative and consensus approach by working with Sales, Marketing and Customer Finance to obtain and ensure that current and accurate information is used for demand forecasts.


* Use and maintain the Demand Planning tools as the primary forecasting system tool.
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