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**Demand Planning Manager**
**Your Tasks & Responsibilities**
- Improve the Demand Forecast:
- Own the Demand Planning process and accuracy of the forecast:
- Review customer/item-level key forecast misses from prior periods, conduct root cause analytics, and enable methods for continuous improvement
- Deliver forecast accuracy (FCA%), forecast volume error (FVE%), and forecast bias (FCB%) KPI's to meet annual targets.
Leverage internal exception reporting such as Repeating Bias and the Integrated Planning workbook to achieve these results.
- Manage the aligned demand plan as a result of the monthly Category Demand Review, and ensure a clean translation of the demand plan to the Finance Business Partner and General Manager for use in financial forecasting
- Manage customer projections for retail inventory builds and seasonal shipment / consumption plans.
- Be operationally responsible for demand forecast:
- Create and manage statistical models to predict baseline demand trends for both POS and shipments, and drive model accuracy improvement
- Create a shipment-based demand forecast at the customer/item and item/dc levels, and clearly communicate changes and key misses to Product Supply for context
- Validate forecast Risks & Opportunities as managed by Finance, and share with Product Supply to proactively risk-mitigate potential write
- off or customer service issues before they occur
- Drive the aligned Demand Plan to customer/SKU level forecasts through the Sales Leadership Team and Field Sales Force, with assistance from Sales




- Own the partnerships with key leadership and product supply:
- Serve as demand forecasting expert for your brand(s), and generate key drivers and insights of demand forecasts within your portfolio at all relevant meetings (e.g. Category Demand Review and Category S&OP; meetings)
- Provide guidance to the category General Managers related to the overall forecast, and any gaps versus financial targets
**Who You Are**:
- Bachelor's degree in business and / or supply chain specialization required.
- Master's degree preferred.
- Minimum of 8 years of forecasting experience in packaged goods/consumer products industry
- APICS Certification preferred; IBF CPF Certification preferred
- Strong working knowledge of Demand Planning industry best practices including Predictive Analytics, Lean Forecasting Techniques, Ship v Consumption Modelling, and Demand Sensing
- A proven track record of being able to influence "up" without reliance on functional authority, leveraging facts and data
- Competencies in statistical baseline modelling algorithms beyond traditional ARIMA
- Experience working in a demand planning system that is able to integrate product, customer, and location hierarchies
- An understanding of the differences in forecast approaches by top retail companies including Walmart, Target, Club Accounts, eCom, etc.
- A proven track record of proactively mitigating customer service or product obsolescence risk through partnership with other supply chain functions
- Strong Excel skills including the following areas: pivot tables / graphs, slicers, regression analysis, database management, and related add-ins including think cell
**Período de aplicación**:
- Del 30 de Julio al 13 de Agosto ****
**Código de referencia**:
- ******
**División**:
- Consumer Health
**Ubicación**:
- Mexico : Ciudad de México : Ciudad de México
**Área funcional**:
- Gestión de la cadena de suministro
**Grado de posición**:
- VS 1.3
**Tipo de empleo**:
- Permanente
**Tiempo de trabajo**:
- Indeterminado

📌 Demand Planning Manager (Xico)
🏢 Bayer
📍 Xico