Market Collaboration Planner & Response Planner, Ireland Foods

at  Unilever

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JOB PURPOSE

This role has overall responsibility for the quality of the forecast, translating business strategy and insights into demand drivers, and using shipment trends and insights to enable the business teams to course-correct the business strategy. This role is also responsible for ensuring we deliver consistently high service to our customers by proactively managing stocks with short shelf life and identifying and solving short and mid-term supply/demand mismatches. This role works cross-functionally and is the key local contact for all supply side questions. This role co-ordinates the management of any supply gaps, balancing cost, cash, carbon, and service. They also ensure rigorous execution of SKU transitions and are a key contact for Fuel for Growth projects, residuals, blocked stock, business waste and life-cycle management.
This role is highly skilled in collaboration and navigating trade-offs, is a master of demand planning and S&OP, and possesses strong understanding of the marketing and sales plans, and deep mastery of their portfolio and supply chains. They are data driven in their approach, use exception-based planning to ensure effort is spent in the areas that can add most value. The role also uses the latest
tools and technology to deliver results, including looking at the forecast through different lenses (customer, category, brand, building block, etc.). They have a problem-solving mindset and practice the ‘fix it once, fix it forever’ motto in order to spend time on more value adding tasks.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Accountable for forecast accuracy, bias, forecast value add, volume value disconnects and extreme bias.
• Gather business insights and help translate them into demand drivers for auto forecast modelling in Katowice and Bangalore, aiming to continuously improve the forecast quality.
• Lead the business through transitions and innovations by co-creating a business plan and translating into precise forecast inputs.
• Use exception-based planning to focus most time on those SKUs which are hardest to forecast.
• Ensure updated and agreed volume forecast is submitted and aligned with financial forecasting.
• Accountable for short term service by proactively managing and monitoring stocks with a range of shelf life’s, mitigating risks, and resolving supply/demand gaps.
• Own residuals, ageing stock, blocked stock, and business waste across finished goods stocks.
• Lead the response on Supply Crises such as product availability and mitigate impacts of quality and regulatory issues.
• A point of contact with innovations, strategic planning, finance, and Customer Operations including Logistics