Planner: Demand at Clover S.A. Proprietary Limited

Job Advert Summary    

• The Demand Planner is responsible for developing and maintaining accurate demand forecasts by analysing historical data, market trends, promotions, and customer insights. The role collaborates with cross-functional teams to support monthly demand planning, monitor forecast accuracy, identify variances, and implement corrective actions to ensure optimal product availability and business performance.

Requirements    

• Degree
• Relevant experience in applying job related concepts, techniques and processes at therequired level
• Business English: Fluent
• Experience in working with senior management
• Computer literacy (Advanced)

Competencies    

• Proactive and action orientated
• Must be a team player
• Achieves Results Effectively
• Maintains high standards
• Commitment and motivation
• Collaborate with others to achieve a common objective
• Customer orientated
• Communicates effectively
• Ability to plan and organize

Duties and Responsibilities    

Develop demand forecast on daily/weekly/monthly (Clover and/or Principals)

• Generate statistical based forecast, review exceptions, cleans history, validateassumptions, analyse variance between expected and actual results.
• Facilitate monthly rolling demand plan per product Group and/or SKU and/or SKUFamily.
• Collaborate with Marketing, Principals and Key Accounts to obtain market intelligence(MDT).
• Collect data, analyse historical trends, promotions, analyse market intelligence, mapevents.
• Monitor demand plan daily/weekly/monthly and take corrective action.
• Conduct promotional tracking and analysis in terms of volumes and dates.
• Analyse deviations and demand changes and present findings to multi discipline team.
• Monitor monthly forecast vs weekly forecast and take corrective action.
• Develop/track holiday planning forecast.
• Collaborate with Supply Planners and discuss future promotions, launches andforecast.

Create, analyse, communicate reports

• Analyse and communicate order fill rate (supply levels to customers).
• Run forecast error report, analyse and learn from reason for error.
• Draw reports on new listings/discontinuation and facilitate solutions.
• Conduct trend analysis on sku's and communicate corrective action.
• Analyse and communicate possible ranging per region.
• Run weekly forecast error report per distribution area\sku.
• Run and communicate promotional tracking report.

Optimise and review ideal inventory levels.

• Calculate and communicate ideal buffer stocks according to forecast accuracy levels.
• Calculate and communicate minimum and maximum order quantities.
• Action stock reports, communicate overstocks and take action to move stock.

Maintain Supply Chain Planning Master data

• Create new items.
• Phase out discontinued items.
• Maintain forecastable items to location (CIC file).
• Maintain distribution relationships (direct deliveries or re-supply orders).
• Maintain factory per branch item master.
• Maintain/Setup days to trade (DTT), primary distribution days.

Facilitate new product launches between Marketing, Trade Marketing & Supply Chain Planning

• Collaborate with Marketing regarding new launches.
• Analyse/Identify similar product.
• Generate forecast per region.
• Monitor/action/report on new launch project.
• Monitor product trend and adjust forecast.

Deadline:15th July,2026