Demand Planning Manager, Egypt

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

More about this role

You will develop the 0-24-month IBP forecast by brand and at the stock keeping unit (SKU) level. You will coordinate, challenge and influence building block with input from sales, marketing and other partners. In addition, you  will review the disaggregated short-term demand plan, which includes SKU/location mix and weekly pacing. Finally, you will provide the finalized detailed demand plan by SKU to supply planners and adjust it based on feedback from supply planners or commercial teams.

What you need to know about this position:

• Lead the monthly consensus meetings with commercial teams.
• Lead bi-weekly SOE meetings with commercial teams to monitor performance and plan achievement and communicating supply updates while highlighting any risks or ops on the short-term horizon & drive the migration from monthly to weekly planning horizon
• Roll-out digitalization for S&OE process
• Support launch plan of S4Hana/O9
• Identify and calculating risks & opportunities for supply planning through attend demand and supply meetings to ensure all risks and opportunities are correctly captured and communicated for the med-long term horizon.
• Identify opportunities and negotiate/shuffle demand to improve stocks availability and meet NR (Net Revenue) Targets.
• Ensure the FG (Finished Goods) stock levels and quantity availability as per the agreed plan and boundaries by monitoring the daily stock levels and weekly actual production
• Work with PS team to achieve the business DIOH targets across all categories.
• Perform root-cause analysis for continuous plan improvement of SFA and BIAS KPI's to improve overall supply chain process.
• Manage the system interface process for supply requirements between commercial and manufacturing through uploading supply on APO, validating the numbers and help to achieve the company targets for the whole system adoption
• Work with OTC & PS teams to ensure that DSO targets & CFR targets are met
• Lead E2E waste Management &monitor aging stocks to avoid unnecessary write offs and proposing liquidation plans across all categories.
• Work on new launches and phase-in-phase-out projects to ensure smooth transition without affecting the business
• Leading/Driving IL6S pillars within Demand Planning function.
• Development & Automation of planning related reports to provide visibility on short/long term Impact & enable decision making

What extra ingredients you will bring:

Education / Certifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Business

Job specific requirements:

Minimum 10 years of relevant experience

Job specific requirements:

Travel requirements:

Work schedule:

No Relocation support availableBusiness Unit SummaryMondelēz International in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan serves the Middle East and Africa markets as well as Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Canada. Headquartered in Dubai, UAE, we have more than 2600 employees working across seven plants and six commercial offices; we make, bake, sell and deliver our products to customers. We are market leaders in key snacking categories with iconic global and local brands including Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate, Milka, Oreo and belVita biscuits, Barni Cakes,Tang powdered beverage, Chiclets and Trident gum and Halls candy. 

Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Job TypeRegularDemand PlanningCustomer Service & Logistics