Primary Accountability / Responsibilities
- Facilitate the collaborative demand planning process
- Lead and facilitate the relevant forums of the monthly demand cycle for the Cocoa Beverages, Gum & Candy category
- Develop
strong communication and partnering links with Regional Demand
Planning / IBP Team, Sales, Category Activation and Supply Planning to
ensure that supply planning issues are captured, and where applicable
are escalated within business-wide category planning forum
- Ensure
that risks to business are escalated within business-wide category
planning forums with Root Cause Analysis and recommendations for
mitigation.
- Ensure the accurate input by the portfolio
team and the timely delivery as required by stakeholders, the demand
team and the regional demand and IBP teams.
- Interface with relevant category supply planners to provide input to the weekly demand control process
- Coach
and develop direct reports to ensure capabilities are constantly
achieved and sought for development within a current role and for
future roles within the business.
- Ensure the maintenance
of all relevant system data to required standards. This includes date
validity, Master Data and other data elements impacting on the planning
process
- Monitor and communicate any imbalance or
potential KPI miss with options to mitigate on a weekly and monthly
basis. Key KPIs to monitors are Case Fill Rate (CFR), Month End Peak
(MEP), Invoice Accuracy (IA), etc
- Follow through with issues and actions arising within the monthly business management cycle are managed to completion