Regional Demand Analyst at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Segmentation of SKUs according to ABC-XYZ methodology, data preparation, and cleaning historical data
• Running statistical forecast for the region in order to create a baseline weekly demand plan
• Prepare, facilitate and gather insights through weekly collaboration meetings with depot and district managers and embed these onto the iPlanner demand plan
• Collaborate with central demand planners in order to ensure alignment with long term forecast, upcoming NPDs and national promotions
• Review of demand planning KPIs, identify gaps and influence changes in order to improve forecast accuracy in line with set targets
• Capture demand for NPDs, events and promotions into the regional demand plan
• Support run out plans for discontinued SKUs through monitoring sales performance
• Track and Monitor performance of sales against published forecast in order to reduce obsolescence in the region
• Work with Central demand planner in preparing for monthly regional demand review with regional leadership
• Conduct ad hoc analysis to support regional stakeholders. ( e.g. T1 and T2 specialists, sales and finance/ppm)
• Review IDP plan & actuals

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant 3 year tertiary qualification
• Strong analytical ability to convert data into valuable business insights
• Good communication skills
• Familiarity with Supply chain principles, working with numbers, and picking up patterns in large amount of data. (Attention to detail highly important)
• Advanced ability to use SAP, MS Excel, and databases
• Excellent presentation, report drafting, and problem solving skills
• Ability to solve complex issues from framing of the problem to making recommendations