Demand Planning Lead - Generics and State at Aspen Pharma Group

MAIN DUTIES:

Strategy Delivery

• Develop and Implement demand management and inventory holding strategy with Business unit head 
• Contribute to Marketing strategy sessions and translate outcome into future planning actions

Monthly IBP Cycle

• Implementation of IBP in accordance with latest business requirements 
• Facilitate monthly demand reviews
• Consolidate and ensure sound understanding of Volume, Value & Assumption movement 
• Consolidate and quantify future Opportunity & Risks
• Drive Gap closing actions and drive decision making on key demand drivers impacting future forecasts 
• Drive demand shaping actions/decisions using existing excess inventories
• Responsible for coordination & total aggregation of Demand Review for the respective portfolio

Monthly Operations – Statistical/Baseline Forecasting 

• Ensure historical data is relevant and reviewed to enable the use of statistical forecasting 
• Manage market demand through monthly forecasting meetings in collaboration with Marketing
• Drive the use of statistical forecasting to derive baseline demand
• Make adjustments to statistical forecasts based on market intelligence and insights on future drivers of demand

Monthly Operations – Consensus Forecasting 

• Continuously collaborate with Marketing to ensure forecasts are based on sound assumptions
• Engage with Marketing & Sales to unpack risks and opportunities and gap closing initiatives
• Collaborate with Marketing & Sales to unpack latest demand drivers and events and agreed on necessary changes in forecast & assumptions
• Conduct necessary analytics where required to support decision making on forecast

Monthly Operations – Replenishment Forecast

• Lead a monthly review of the supply plan highlighting supply risks and potential excess stock risks
• Drive effective communication with suppliers to mitigate the supply and excess stock risks
• Collaborate with Marketing and Supply to optimize stock holding to achieve service and inventory objectives
• Facilitate aggregation of total SKU level replenishment requirement for SKU’s crossing State & Export

Continuous Improvement 

• Track sales vs actual to unpack latest demand movements. Drive improvement in forecast accuracy by understanding reasons for deviations from forecasts driving remediation plans
• Explore & Adopt various forecast methodologies to improve forecast accuracy
• Proactively drive planning excellence through people, process and tool and process streamlining
• Implement and drive SKU segmentation to allow business product prioritization
• Work in collaboration with Supply and finance to adjust stock policies and planning parameters to optimise inventory holding
• Support planning-related project implementation

Other Planning Team Activities

• Ensure item master data integrity is maintained for all portfolios
• Liaising and building relationships with sites and commercial BU Heads
• Build and develop a high-performance team through active coaching and clearly defined development plans 
• Support Demand & Supply manager with strategic and operational needs

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE: 

• Bsc Engineering, Bcom Finance, Bcom Supply Chain relevant categories
• Planning experience 8+ years with Demand Management experience 5+ years
• Team management experience 5+ years
• Planning experience in FMCG or Pharmaceutical experience a must
• Import/Export and Supply Chain knowledge a must 
• Statistical & Consensus Forecasting experience 
• Supply Planning understanding a must 
• Understanding of ERP systems and strong MS office working knowledge
• Preferable experience: Working knowledge of Qlikview, Power BI and SAP