Job Summary: 

• Prepare effective forecast models based on HQ guidelines and demand patterns
• Propose and implement solutions to improve demand forecast accuracy
• Successfully communicate forecast and inventory estimations to management and related teams
• Provide consistent analysis of the forecast accuracy and conduct monthly forecast maintenance
• Monitor and report on important changes in sales forecasts, budgets, and business strategies
• Address demand-related issues in a timely and effective manner
• Support management with risk assessments and mitigation activities
• Challenge the forecast of marketing and sales on launch and promotion
• Manage forecast, purchase order, supply from principal, inventory (on-hand and SLOB analysis), and fulfillment to customers
• Works in conjunction with the Portfolio Manager on quarterly and annual planning cycles in conjunction with Finance aligned to budget timelines.

Skills on Resume: 

• Forecast Modeling (Hard Skills)
• Demand Forecast Accuracy (Hard Skills)
• Sales Communication (Soft Skills)
• Forecast Analysis (Hard Skills)
• Sales Budget Monitoring (Hard Skills)
• Demand Issue Resolution (Soft Skills)
• Risk Assessment (Hard Skills)
• Inventory Management (Hard Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Drives best-in-class demand management processes. Referencing experience, subject matter expertise, and industry best practices.
• Leads the monthly demand review process to develop an accurate consensus demand forecast at the appropriate levels. 
• Interacts with Sales, Marketing, Finance and Customer Service to determine assumptions and the latest market trends.
• Develops statistical forecasts, and maintains historical outlier corrections.
• Owns demand metrics and assists in improving forecast accuracy and eliminating bias.
• Communicates requirements to supply planners and financial organizations.
• Review the demand shift proposal shared by the supply planner after bottleneck supply customers, sales and supply planning and review the constrained demand information. 
• Identifies solutions with customers, sales and supply planning to balance supply with demand. 
• Decide what should be escalated to cross-functional S&OP meetings.
• Uses and develops relevant reports and alerts to focus on areas that have issues that need to be addressed and to improve the process.
• Coordinates/maintains system master data which supports the demand planning processes.
• Monitors the performance of the process and continually improves insightfulness of output, efficiency of review, and accuracy of content.

Skills on Resume: 

• Demand Management Expertise (Hard Skills)
• Consensus Forecasting (Hard Skills)
• Cross-Functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Statistical Forecast Development (Hard Skills)
• Demand Metrics Ownership (Hard Skills)
• Supply Chain Communication (Soft Skills)
• Process Improvement (Hard Skills)
• System Master Data Management (Hard Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Captures variances between actual and planned demand. 
• Identifies, documents, and corrects for root causes of variances.
• Captures variances between new and prior demand plans. 
• Tracks and documents trends and major shifts for concise explanations to subsequent stakeholders.
• Works closely with key customers to understand the drivers of demand
• Provides training on demand management processes and tools
• Supports the budget process
• Proactively maintains demand scenarios to aid in communication and planning of what-if scenarios
• Coordinates explanation demand-caused extended lead times.
• Back up other Demand Managers and Supply Planners

Skills on Resume: 

• Demand Variance Analysis (Hard Skills)
• Root Cause Identification (Hard Skills)
• Trend Tracking (Hard Skills)
• Customer Demand Insights (Soft Skills)
• Demand Management Training (Soft Skills)
• Budget Support (Hard Skills)
• Scenario Planning (Hard Skills)
• Cross-Functional Support (Soft Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Develop demand forecasts based on demand patterns, business trends, and information gathered working with the Sales team, Product managers, Customers and Supply Chain teams
• Responsible for running monthly demand reviews as part of the Sales and Operation Planning and proposing improvements where required
• Maintain demand plan to guarantee on-time delivery to customers, mitigate inventory risk
• Take responsibility for recommending inventory strategy
• Be responsible for supporting and trainning demand analyst
• Analyze demand-related issues such as late deliveries to customers, and obsolete stock and implement processes to improve and avoid reoccurrence
• Regularly audit current practices to challenge the teams, and bring awareness to make sure that change and continuous improvement become a mindset
• Understand market Lead time requirements to better serve the customers and implement a proactive supply chain
• Ensuring collaboration and a focus on the delivery of business outcomes is at the heart of all planning activities.
• Works closely with peers and internal customers to ensure alignment of ways of working and planning processes.

Skills on Resume: 

• Demand Forecast Development (Hard Skills)
• Monthly Demand Reviews (Hard Skills)
• Inventory Risk Mitigation (Hard Skills)
• Training and Support (Soft Skills)
• Demand Issue Analysis (Hard Skills)
• Continuous Improvement Auditing (Hard Skills)
• Market Lead Time Understanding (Hard Skills)
• Cross-Functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Contributes to and leads significant projects to transform the operating model, and delivers the benefits required including gross to net, complexity reduction, cost of goods and working capital reductions, etc.
• Establishes and embeds the Demand Forecasting processes to support the Supply Chain Operating model and Core Commercial Cycle (CCC)
• Establishes processes to support Modern Trade and General Trade Channels’ specific forecast standards. 
• Drives enhanced service levels and reduced working capital requirements for customers
• Help drive the 'one number' mindset to drive business decision-making and forecast transparency/functional accountability
• Manages Demand Forecasting input into the key Core Commercial Cycle (CCC) meetings including Demand Review/Supply review and regional S&OP meetings
• Ensures appropriate identification and understanding of demand forecast changes against short and long-term horizons to support effective supply chain function. 
• Provides key inputs to support E2E Supply Chain thinking and effective decision-making
• Integrates inputs on Trade Spend and Net Sales to help with forecast decisions
• Develops existing technical and IT capabilities to support baseline statistical modeling to deliver enhanced forecast accuracy
• Ensures adherence to rolling 24-month forecast.

Skills on Resume: 

• Project Leadership (Hard Skills)
• Forecasting Process Setup (Hard Skills)
• Channel Forecasting (Hard Skills)
• Service Level Improvement (Hard Skills)
• Forecast Transparency (Soft Skills)
• Demand Review Management (Hard Skills)
• Supply Chain Integration (Hard Skills)
• Statistical Modeling (Hard Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Performs internal measurement and reporting of demand forecasting KPIs to drive improvements in forecast accuracy, bias, and working capital
• Analyzes root causes of KPI misses and helps in driving the needed forecast corrections
• Acts as an unbiased and neutral Business Partner to the LOC Commercial Team
• Performs seamless handover of demand forecast and relevant market intelligence to supply planning hubs to facilitate optimal inventory levels to support the business
• Works with Sales teams to examine the deployment of trade spend to identify the presence of uplift
• Coordinates cross-functional teams to deliver sales gap-closing opportunities
• Works with Supply Planning Hub and with local Supply Chain Team to address supply gaps
• Participates with the LOC and with the Market SC Team in the planning and move-out activities for the short-dated or excessive stocks to avoid write-offs
• Assists the Demand Forecasting Lead
• Identifies, develops, and implements process improvement plans to optimize the Demand.
• Management process to meet company objectives for quality, cost, responsiveness and growth
• Represents Demand in the IR review

Skills on Resume: 

• KPI Measurement (Hard Skills)
• Root Cause Analysis (Hard Skills)
• Business Partnership (Soft Skills)
• Demand Handover (Hard Skills)
• Trade Spend Analysis (Hard Skills)
• Cross-Functional Coordination (Soft Skills)
• Supply Gap Resolution (Hard Skills)
• Process Improvement (Hard Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Involvement in the overall Integrated Business Plan strategy and process, fully committed to orchestrating the demand review process in the APAC region.
• Coordinate monthly demand planning process through gathering, organizing and analyzing the demand data
• Coordinate Pre-Demand Review meetings and commercial forecast consolidation.
• Organize APAC Demand Review meeting for critical monthly review.
• NPI plans, changing market trends, near-to-mid-term sales plans, competitive situations, statistical forecast correction for abnormal demand signals, business plans and pricing plans, etc.
• Maintain a log of key demand plan assumptions.
• Lead the development of “What if” scenarios that test the demand plan sensitivity and identify potential gap closure solutions.
• Master of APAC demand database maintenance, including collection, analysis and measurement as coordinate cross-functional teams. 
• Manage the alignment and sharing with a global team and other regions.
• IBP upload and maintenance on time.
• Support Operational Marketing leader to get comparison and analysis.
• Thrust 1 database update as reflecting regional IBP progress.
• Ensures that issues and imbalances that occur during the monthly Demand cycle are cross-functionally reviewed, resolved, or escalated with recommendations and alternatives for closure

Skills on Resume: 

• Integrated Business Planning (Hard Skills)
• Demand Data Coordination (Hard Skills)
• Pre-Demand Review Coordination (Hard Skills)
• APAC Demand Review Organization (Hard Skills)
• Demand Assumptions Logging (Hard Skills)
• Scenario Development (Hard Skills)
• Database Maintenance (Hard Skills)
• Cross-Regional Alignment (Soft Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Deliver a customer demand forecast which incorporates current and accurate customer information that allows the company to correctly predict customer demand. 
• Provide the organization with the appropriate information needed to plan inventory purchases within the supplier lead-time window and deliver a high order fill performance.
• Develop, Recommend & Implement target inventory levels for product brand groups based on inventory analysis of month-end inventory results. 
• Utilize the operating model to determine the best way to set safety stock and mitigate order shortage risk by considering forecast accuracy, supplier lead time, and re-order frequency.
• A highly visible customer-facing role with Top Accounts represents cross-functional Supply Chain performance. 
• Lead Vendor Compliance & Performance review sessions and works closely with the Logistics and Supply Management team to address any performance issues impacting Order Fill and On-time Delivery.
• Coordinate collaboration and research activities with key accounts to reconcile significant variances in forecasts. 
• Refine the forecast model to reflect updated sales & promotional assumptions.
• Refine the methods, inputs, and systems if needed to continually improve forecasting so the company can better anticipate customer needs.
• Includes developing demand forecasts at multiple levels of aggregation based on customer and brand perspectives
• High attention and focus on demand plan over purchasing time horizon
• Develop managerial reporting to include monthly forecast accuracy, root cause forecast error & improvements, key customer forecast accuracy, and adherence to plan on Sales Events & Promotions. 
• Key Customer analysis for inventory fill requirements which are then discussed and negotiated with Key Customer Replenishment teams

Skills on Resume: 

• Customer Demand Forecasting (Hard Skills)
• Inventory Planning (Hard Skills)
• Target Inventory Levels (Hard Skills)
• Safety Stock Management (Hard Skills)
• Vendor Performance Review (Hard Skills)
• Key Account Collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Forecast Model Refinement (Hard Skills)
• Managerial Reporting (Hard Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Accountable to the business to coordinate and schedule all approved changes to be delivered across TalkTalk.
• Support the estimation and allocation of demand within the delivery factories providing information to the Portfolio Directors and Project/Programme Managers.
• Work closely with the PMO team and Heads of Programme and Portfolio to assist the business in effectively prioritizing requests from the annual planning capex cycle to ad-hoc requests throughout the year by providing timely and commercially appropriate insight.
• Proactively share knowledge of technology process discipline, risks and opportunities to build competitive advantage and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of resources.
• Develop and maintain cross-functional technology demand roadmap aligned to operating priorities, pre-emptively identify hotspots and under-capacity on a quarterly and ongoing basis and propose potential resolution options.
• Initiate and execute cross-functional communication and improvement activities to ensure maximum alignment of the technology with business priorities.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with cross-functional business, change function, technical and 3rd party stakeholders.
• Establish and maintain appropriate demand governance and controls, gates, checklists, documentation, reports and management information
• Adhere to the Change Framework and ISO:9001 requirements where relevant.
• Identify and proactively manage risks, issues and dependencies, escalating as appropriate.

Skills on Resume: 

• Change Coordination (Hard Skills)
• Demand Estimation (Hard Skills)
• Request Prioritization (Soft Skills)
• Technology Process Knowledge (Soft Skills)
• Demand Roadmap Development (Hard Skills)
• Cross-Functional Communication (Soft Skills)
• Stakeholder Relationship Management (Soft Skills)
• Risk Management (Hard Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Develop the aggregate demand plan and supporting assumptions for the monthly Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process by working with Marketing, Sales, Account Management, and Predictive modeling teams
• Active participation and leadership are expected in Annual and Long-Term Planning processes
• Prepare and facilitate monthly Demand Review meetings focused on preparing and delivering the demand forecast over a CY+2 horizon, including analysis of major deviations from prior demand plans and periods.
• Monitor performance to the monthly, quarterly, and annual demand plans
• Implements the use of Demand Metrics to aid in forecaster coaching and drive continuous improvement of the Demand Plan.
• Provide training to employees in all aspects of demand management and forecasting
• Use and maintain the IBP tool and ensure discipline of use by forecasters.
• Ensure forecasters document, update and challenge the drivers and assumptions supporting the demand plan, using Multi-View and Demand Metrics as a tool for further alignment and improvement.
• Develop, maintain, and utilize forecasting and communication tools to accomplish tasks related to Demand Management in the US
• Serve as the Commercial focal point for Supply Chain and assist in the resolution of issues related to Supply/Demand imbalances and leading product allocation.
• Lead and participate in teams focused on delivering improvements to the business.

Skills on Resume: 

• Aggregate Demand Planning (Hard Skills)
• Long-Term Planning Leadership (Soft Skills)
• Demand Review Facilitation (Hard Skills)
• Performance Monitoring (Hard Skills)
• Demand Metrics Implementation (Hard Skills)
• Employee Training (Soft Skills)
• IBP Tool Management (Hard Skills)
• Supply Chain Coordination (Soft Skills)