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• In this role you will be responsible for leading analytical excellence, insight generation, and digital enablement for the Customer Facing Supply Chain (CFSC) team. Drive improved forecasting, enhanced customer service delivery, and elevated availability through advanced data analytics, cross-functional alignment, and strategic pipeline management. Act as the analytical backbone for O2C, inventory health, and customer‑centric service performance.

A day in the life of a Customer Facing Supply Chain Analytics Manager:

Sales Pipeline & Month-End Coordination

• Conduct deep‑dive analysis of the customer order pipeline to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and conversion gaps, ensuring visibility of demand versus supply constraints.
• Provide robust forecasting support by validating customer signals, enriching statistical forecasts with insight, and ensuring all forecast adjustments are data‑driven and transparent.
• Lead month‑end reporting consolidation across CSA teams by coordinating data inputs, validating accuracy, analyzing service performance drivers, and preparing clear narrative summaries for leadership.
• Drive alignment across CFSC, Sales, and Demand Planning on volume risks, upsides, and scenario planning to support a smooth month‑end close outside of normal working hour perimeters.
• Ensure governance of month‑end processes, including cut‑off tracking, backlog analysis, and performance reporting against OTIF, CFR, and availability KPIs.
• Work outside of normal hours over month-end periods and need to be present for management of month end

Exception & Stock Management

• Drive end‑to‑end resolution of O2C failures by investigating root causes, coordinating with CSA, DC operations, and Demand Capture, and ensuring corrective actions are implemented.
• Analyze national and customer‑specific stock positions, balancing supply constraints, DC capacities, and customer order patterns to optimize stock allocation and improve service levels.
• Lead risk identification using exception dashboards, proactively escalating stock gaps, late inbound risks, NPD shortages, and discontinuation sell‑through challenges.
• Collaborate with Logistics and Demand Planning to optimize stock holding and reduce write‑offs by improving inventory visibility, ageing tracking, and DC‑to‑customer alignment.
• Support scenario planning for constrained SKUs, proposing allocation strategies that safeguard availability for key customers and priority channels.

Stakeholder Engagement & Customer Satisfaction

• Facilitate regular governance forums with the Market teams and NBS Centre, ensuring alignment on service performance, O2C adherence, digital adoption, and key operational priorities.
• Strengthen partnership across Sales, Logistics, Finance, CFSC, and Marketing by creating clear communication channels, aligning KPI expectations, and jointly problem‑solving ongoing service issues. Support flawless execution of OTIF, NPD launches, and promotional volumes by identifying early risks, coordinating stock flow, and ensuring cross‑functional readiness.
• Enhance customer engagement through structured AGS feedback, JBP inputs, and insight‑driven recommendations that improve service experience and collaboration quality.
• Establish a reputation as a trusted CFSC partner by ensuring transparency, timely updates, and consistent follow‑through on actions impacting the customer.

Insight Generation & Digital Enablement

• Transform raw operational and customer data into actionable insights, providing business‑ready dashboards, analytics, and performance narratives to support decision‑making.
• Lead analysis of customer and internal surveys (e.g., AGS, internal stakeholder surveys) to identify systemic pain points, opportunity areas, and cross‑functional improvement priorities.
• Drive adoption and upskilling for digital reporting tools and dashboards by training users, simplifying data navigation, and embedding digital ways of working in CFSC routines.
• Enhance reporting accuracy and insight depth by improving data structures, developing new analytics, and refining KPI definitions for consistency across the business.
• Partner with NBS and functional teams to improve data quality, automate manual processes, and scale digital tools to support CFSC operations.

Customer-centric analytics & availability

• Monitor stock availability, service levels, OTIF, OSA, and other customer KPIs to provide early visibility of risks and potential demand–supply misalignment.
• Utilize predictive analytics to identify potential service disruptions, such as inbound delays, stock shortages, or demand spikes, enabling proactive mitigation planning.
• Lead root‑cause analysis for availability shortfalls, ensuring actions are clearly defined, owners assigned, and progress monitored through governance forums.
• Partner with Sales and Supply Chain teams to safeguard on‑shelf availability through cross‑functional corrective actions, improved demand visibility, and strategic stock positioning.
• Build customer‑centric performance reporting, highlighting business impacts, risk scenarios, and targeted interventions to improve customer experience and performance outcomes.

Manage CFSC Analysts and Junior Analysts during the execution of all their activities

• Recruit, train, develop and motivate the CFSC Analytics teams and ensure succession plans are in place for key roles.
• Attend to and administer all complex customer contact/complaints/challenges received and agree on mutually accepted solutions where appropriate.
• Ensure adherence to GLOBE best practices Assume complete responsibility for teams KPI's, OMP's, Governance reviews, PDP's, leave, Concur etc.

What will make you successful?

• Degree in Supply Chain or related
• Minimum 3 years’ Supply Chain, Customer Service, or O2C analytical experience
• Strong Excel, Power BI, and data visualization capability
•  Experience in exception management and inventory analytics
•  Exposure to customer collaboration, JBP, AGS or commercial processes
• SAP O2C understanding advantageous
• Working experience in Project management experience to implementation of major project/s or change programme/s
• Working experience Key Account Customer
• Stakeholder management of 2-3 years
• Strong presentation and intermediate excel skills

Deadline:22nd April,2026

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Position Summary

• To drive human-centricity by amplifying the voice of consumers and shoppers, guiding strategic direction, and harnessing technology from foundation to advanced analytics to fuel growth at speed and scale.

A day in the life of the Head of Consumer Insights:

• Lead end-to-end insights: segmentation, brand health, shopper behaviour, category trends, competitive intelligence
• Deliver yearly research plan across all five CMIA pillars (Foundation, I&R, Measurement, Data Engineering, Advanced Analytics)
• Identify knowledge gaps via CMIA Knowledge Gap Framework; prioritise research investments
• Deploy foundational tools: 4Us, Category Growth Drivers, Target Portrait, Core Insight, Value Equation, Consumer Journey
• Ensure 100% consumer validation on Tier 1 innovation Big Bets (Bronze / Silver / Gold tiering)
• Shift from descriptive to predictive and prescriptive analytics
• Lead pricing elasticity modelling, demand forecasting, and trade promotion optimisation
• Run post-campaign and post-launch reviews; feed learnings into planning cycles
• Build single source of truth across syndicated, first-party, and cross-functional data
• Manage data provider relationships (Nielsen, Kantar, Intage, Circana, etc…)
• Sit on country leadership team; present in ICP, MBP, MOR, innovation gates
• Partner with Marketing on brand/portfolio strategy; lead RFPs for external research
• Raise the profile of CMIA: showcase wins, demonstrate value, build coalitions
• Build high-performing team; drive maturity toward Foresight Partner (L4)
• Activate community: forums, knowledge sharing, zone rhythms

What will make you successful

• Bachelor's required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• 12+ years in Consumer Insights, Marketing Analytics, Data Science, or ML/AI, including leadership in multinational FMCG
• Expertise in Marketing Mix Modelling, attribution, sales lift measurement
• Track record leading cross-category, multi-market teams
• Proven change management: coaching, training, embedding new frameworks
• Budget management and vendor portfolio oversight
• Deep experience with syndicated, first-party and cross-functional data integration

Deadline:20th April,2026