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Job Number #172430 - Hout Bay, Western Cape, South Africa
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Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specialising in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name!
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Job Summary
The Demand Planner has overall accountability for the RSA Demand Planning strategy and performance. The Demand Planner executes strategy, systems design & implementation, and processes to develop and strengthen demand planning practices and performance in RSA. The Demand Planner is responsible for ensuring alignment between the commercial teams and the CBS shared services to ensure customer service, inventory and simplification objectives are achieved.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
Demand Planning
Ensure full alignment between commercial processes and CBS shared services execution.
Prepare & participate in the Monthly discipline process to develop an aligned demand plan for sub-categories of responsibility. Gaps & opportunities are identified, quantified & addressed. Business performance for the most recent month, quarter, YTD vs. plan is reviewed.
Gather customer plans (baseline, promotions & new products) & other key information from multi-functional team (CDT's, customer development from Hub or country, consumer marketing). Determine deviations vs. statistical demand plan, gain alignment, & document key assumptions
Ensure alignment of final demand plan to supply plan (current & new products). Evaluate changes to demand, inventory, and customer backlogs. Identify resource constraints, potential solutions, and impact on demand plans.
Monitor inbound orders and shipments on a regular basis. Understand sources of significant changes & flag to commercial and supply chain partners. Facilitate resolution of demand requirements outside of agreed to tolerances via “Fast Track Process”
Measure, report, and drive improvement of demand planning accuracy for the total subsidiary, and category level categorized by new products, regular items, & promotional items. Sources of Demand Planning BIAS are identified, addressed, and eliminated.
Coordinate, analyze and identify supply risks of the different supply sources, to realign and communicate the plans to the commercial team.
Work cross functionally through the New SKU Process to finalize pipeline volume for new products. Track/measure actual shipments & conduct post launch analysis. Collaborate with a cross functional team to manage & communicate SKU life cycle changes.
Work cross functionally within CS&L as well as other key parts of the organization, closely collaborating with each function and ensuring the outcomes are executed in the demand planning area.
Uploading Demand Plan into demand planning tool on a monthly basis and ensuring volumes filter through the system, enabling replenishment.
Adjusting Demand Plan in demand planning tool as and when needed
Valuating Demand Plan in demand planning tool & importing it into the P&L
Inventory Management
Drive SKU simplification processes and results
Improve Case Fill, by ensuring reasons for over selling SKU’s are understood and built into future demand plans
Manage SLOB by ensuring proper diagnostics are done on top under selling SKU’s compared to DP, inbound lead times are respected, and guiding the team on the corrective actions to be taken
Responsible for ensuring that all new products and SKU transitions are communicated within the business, supported by an updated and transparent demand plan.
Ensuring all Master Data is up to date
Adhoc
Managing import permits process
Managing import documentation process
Managing the new product registrations process
Manage the donations process
Perform other duties as assigned
This is not an exhaustive list of duties or functions.
Education/ Experience Requirements
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Basic Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Finance, Engineering, Business Administration.
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Finance background advantageous
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Experience: Minimum 3 years experience in Inventory Management, Supply Network Planning and Demand Planning
Expected Areas of Skills
High level of intermediate to advanced Excel skills
SAP experience advantageous
Kinaxis-Maestro experience advantageous
Demonstrates data management and analytical capabilities as the role involves management of significant amounts of data
Driving innovation, by challenging the status quo & collaboratively finding opportunities to continuously improve our processes, tools & systems.
Understanding of Business processes, systems & strategies
Excellent communication skills (both written and spoken), in the English language
Scheduling and forecasting experience
Understanding of Business processes, systems & strategies
Demonstrated customer awareness
Experience in working cross functionally with multiple stakeholders
Demonstrates urgency in resolving challenges & driving opportunities
Assertive, confident & negotiate persuasively, take a stand and resolve important issues.
Project Management and Coordination skills
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Equal Opportunity Employer
Colgate is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status (United States positions), or any other characteristic protected by law.
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