Demand Planner at Nestle Ghana Limited

  • Full Time
  • Ghana

Nestle Job Vacancies | Recruitment & Salary

Nestlé Ghana seeks a Demand Planner for their Head Office. Develop, maintain, and enhance a realistic Demand Plan for a product portfolio. Serve as the Single Point Of Contact (SPOC) for Cluster Demand Planning queries.

Duties & Responsibilities

The successful applicant will be responsible for but not limited to the following job functions:

What you’ll do

  • Create and maintain the appropriate master data in the planning systems in use, minimizing errors, and avoiding duplication and obsolescence.
  • Be the Single Point of Contact for all Demand Planning Sell-out based Demand Planning related queries and information flow between the Cluster.
  • Lead the Monthly Business Planning Cycle in the cluster to ensure commitment from all functions, build and maintain good communication and collaboration both within Supply Chain and with Sales, Marketing, Manufacturing and Finance, according to the Monthly Business Planning (MBP) best practices
  • Effectively use all Demand Planning system functionality to enable an exception-based management approach, incorporating the “Animal Farm” methodology.
  • Generate and maintain a demand plan for a given portfolio of products, locations and/or customers, at the levels (product hierarchy and time) at which business decisions are taken.
  • Contribute to Customer Facing activities such as Collaborative Planning, Promotional Forecasting, ad hoc joint Supply Chain improvement projects as appropriate.
  • Through systematic reporting, provision of links or ad-hoc reports and communications, ensure that Demand Plan information is available to internal business partners as required.
  • Implement improvements to Demand Planning processes and tools to deliver tangible benefits (e.g. business opportunities and growth, demand plan accuracy, time savings, increased efficiencies).

Required Knowledge and Experience

We pride ourselves with having the best people, which are our most important assets. Our company has been recognized for having the highest ethics and strives for excellency through distinctly higher standards than the norm.

We therefore urge only candidates with these unique requirements and experience to apply for this stimulating position.

  • Minimum Educational qualification: Minimum of First Degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, and other related fields
  • Minimum Relevant work experience: 2 to 3 years’ experience in similar role.
  • Working experience in the following roles will be advantageous:
    • Sales, Key Account Management, Category Channel Sales Development, Customer Service, Supply Planning, Supply Chain Management,
    • Finance: Business Planning / Dynamic Forecasting and Marketing.

What Will Make You Successful?

  • Strong understanding on how Demand Planning processes drive operations in Nestlé businesses.
  • Good understanding of commercial environment of the food and retail industry.
  • Knowledge of how statistical forecasting methods can support Demand Planning.
  • Able to use standard and ad-hoc reports to understand and improve the planning situation.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Excel and Business and Data Analytics tools (e.g.: Power BI)
  • Able to communicate planning situation efficiently and clearly, using appropriate business vocabulary
  • Can use the provided tools (SAP APO) to generate and maintain forecasts at multiple levels of granularity.
  • Strong Stakeholder Management skills through efficient and effective communication
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