This role is on a short-term contract basis, with a duration of 6 to 9 months.
In this role, you will be accountable for the management and continuous improvement of the Demand Planning Process by embedding the business planning process of the Core Commercial Cycle (CCC) to have a robust and efficient comprehensive end-to-end process in order to ensure seamless business continuity in the face of adversity.
Key Responsibilities:
- Chair/facilitate monthly Pre-Demand Review meetings (PDRM) and Demand Review meetings (DRM) to achieve consensus forecast.
- Generate baseline forecast using Statistical model to ensure robust & realistic baseline forecast generated.
- Develop and embed a sustainable 24-month Forecasting process driven by Baseline inputs and incorporating the right level of stakeholder collaboration.
- Analyze the bottom-up forecast provided by sales operations and incorporate it into the template accordingly.
- Prepare Pre-DRM/DRM and brand financial templates for short-term and medium/long-term forecast review.
- Develop the aggregate demand plan, document, update, and challenge the factors and assumptions supporting the monthly demand for DRM.
- Reporting all the KPIs and providing the root causes& mitigation plans on a monthly basis (e.g. Forecast Bias, Forecast accuracy).
- Monitor demand plans for promotions and new products, working closely with Commercial Teams to ensure the plan effectiveness is evaluated & linked to demand plans.
- Ensure forecast accuracy is reviewed during Pre-DRM & DRM together with root cause analysis to ensure action planning & continuous improvement of the overall process.
- Monitor demand plan performance, providing detailed input to sales and marketing for use in DRM.
- Identify sales risk by providing the Run Rate analysis & propose sales opportunities to maximize gross margin through better decisions based on the transparency of operational realities.
- Manage the Demand Forecasting and Financial forecasting/budgeting processes
- Build effective gross volume and value forecasts fully aligned with market & category trends.
- Working closely with Supply Hub to ensure continuity in supply and minimize OOS or excess inventory.
- Building an effective inventory plan to balance bias and working capital objectives, thereby ensuring adequate stock and agreed customer service levels are met for forecasted sales.
- Ensure that all major processes and procedures are documented by SOPs ́s and that SOPs ́s are compliant with GSK corporate policies and procedures. Any other duty within the job scope as directed by the superior.
Why you?
Basic Qualifications
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Engineering, Supply Chain Management and Economics, or a related business field
- 5+ years’ experience in Demand Planning, Supply chain
- Experience handling large amounts of data
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong communication skills, with a proven ability to understand key concepts and communicate with business stakeholders andthe ability to drive action and influence decision-making at all levels of the organization
- Strong organizational skills, as well as the ability to perform under pressure and manage multiple priorities with competing demands
- Ability to work within high-performing teams in highly collaborative environments
Preferred Qualifications:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
- Experience in the supply chain, logistics, supply management, demand management, inventory management, and operational management
- Ability to be proactive in leading and managing information and data from the supply chain organization
- Organizational skills with excellent attention to detail
- Leadership and influencing skills
- Relationship builder
- Strong awareness of internal customer service and financials
- Ability to apply strategic thinking to deliver large-scale network solutions
- Experience with SAP and Excel
- Highly developed analytical skills
- Business and financial acumen
- Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal
Job Posting End Date:
7 February 2025
Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).
Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.
Contact information:
You may apply for this position online by selecting the Apply now button.
Important notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies
GSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.
