Demand Planning Business Expert

**Job Description**:
**Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?**

**Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Possible**

You will oversee demand planning activities for your assigned product families in your business unit. You will also lead the demand review process and driving interactions with the cross-functional teams.

**How you will contribute**

You will:

- Lead the demand management agenda for the category, being the key interface between commercial (sales revenue planning) and supply (replenishment) to identify and evaluate the impact of potential availability issues/commercial changes including gap assessment and risk and opportunity discussions
- Partner with modelling team for the generation of statistical forecasting
- Manage, coach and develop a team
- Review standard consumption versus forecast at the customer and total product levels, liaising with replenishment and sales revenue planning to manage potential availability issues and the impact of under consumption
- Drive strong linkages with the commercial, customer collaboration, modelling, order fulfilment teams and supply planning including innovation and equity
- Drive continuous capability building in the demand planning team for planning improvement

**What you will bring**

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

- Comprehensive supply chain, economic, financial or logistics experience and commercial awareness in a fast-moving consumer goods or consumer packaged goods environment
- Open to learn new ways of working and is willing to use new tools
- Experience driving demand review and participation in an IBP cycle
- Able to influence cross-functional teams, working on the key priorities and improving the plan
- Able to build effective teams
- Knowledge in leading practice demand planning and end-to-end supply chain concepts
- Excellent problem-solving skills, analytical skills and verbal and written communication skills

This position supports the organization’s Demand Planning strategy across BUs to provide reliable and unbiased forecasts to the IBP process, hence driving Supply Chain imperatives of cost, cash and service.

**Main responsibilities include (but are not limited to)**:

- Monthly reporting and management of key Demand Planning KPIs across all AMEA BUs
- Execute monthly RCA and action planning with BU Demand Teams
- Support Supply-led negotiations regarding Supply Chain Operating Strategy for aspects related to Demand Forecast reliability, Forecast Firm Zones and Forecast Change Management process
- Support Data Science (CAT) projects to model our demand forecast using Advanced Stats / Machine Learning models Support Demand Planning CoE team’s development and implementation efforts regarding Demand-related systems (e.g. APO DP)
- Support Enterprise Demand Planning capability building sessions in AMEA (e.g. Demand Academy)
- Collaborate with Supply team on Long Range Planning exercises by helping to develop assumptions that will link the organization’s growth targets with needed forecast details
- Perform analytics to recommend improvement opportunities for demand forecast accuracy Help develop and monitor Sales Forecast Accuracy (SFA %) and Sales Forecast Bias (SFB %) targets for BUs to ensure overall delivery for AMEA
- Help organize monthly connects with BU Demand Planning Leads Help organize regional Demand Planning KU network Support global roll-out of Foundational Demand Planning capabilities in AMEA

**What extra ingredients you will bring**:
Preferred skills include:

- Ability to code in Python (or any other programming languages)
- Experience in using or implementing machine learning or deep learning algorithms using R/Python frameworks
- Experience in creating dashboards using Visualization software (e.g. Power BI, Tableau)
- Experience in any planning systems (e.g. SAP APO, Blue Yonder, O9, E2Open)

**Education / Certifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree (finance, logistics, engineering, operations).
- Operational knowledge of SAP ECC/APO/BI in Supply Chain through formal training and experience

**Job specific requirements**:

- Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in Demand Planning
- Extensive knowledge of Demand Management and stakeholder management
- Understanding of IBP / S&OP / Project management methodology
- Experience of working in multicultural teams and environment is preferred
- Fluent in English
- Good communication abilities with non-English speakers and other functions; Excellent interpersonal, communications and presentation skills
- Strong understanding of internal functional roles within Supply Chain
- Knowledge / understanding of linkages and functional interdependencies within the organization

**Travel requirements**:
As-needed basis.

**Work schedule**:
Standard Monday to Friday work week (in India Standard Time). The AMEA region has markets spanning from GMT+12 to GMT+1 time zones. You