Demand & Supply Planner

Location: Cairo - Egypt

Company: Nestlé Egypt

Full-time

Position Summary

Joining Nestlé means you are joining the largest Food and Beverage company in the world. At our very core, we are a human company driven by our purpose to improve the quality of life and contribute to a healthier future.

The Demand & Supply Planner is responsible for driving local information into a consensus demand plan through a monthly business planning cycle and providing the right supply visibility to all stakeholders, coordinating, and ensuring planned execution, promo planning and order fulfillment management, and lead the MBPC in OPC across all functions.

A DAY IN THE LIFE …

• Consistently achieve sustainable Demand Plan Accuracy (DPA) improvement: (accuracy level and variability, bias balance).
• Implement improvements to Demand and Supply Planning processes and tools to deliver tangible benefits (e.g.: increased efficiencies etc.).
• Share & align demand plan with Cat DP by capturing, prioritizing, and analyzing input from generating demand on events; customer, consumer & competitor information; other external / internal trends and influences, that impact planning.
• Highlight and manage exceptional demand and supply issues, such as unrealistic demand, material shortage, etc.
• Ensure timely reporting to local management (GBM, BDM Supply Chain) for MBPC meetings.
• Communicate plans and actions to stakeholders.
• Follow up on local execution (promo & regular sales), as well as ageing stock depletion.
• Coordinate and plan stock movements between DC & Co-packer.
• Maintain & align weekly forecast through conducting weekly exception reviews & communicate through OpDSR .
• Drive and share 6 week rolling exceptions within OPC through WER and highlight to category demand management to align supply accordingly.
• Ensure timely input to the sign off process of Demand Plan and alert any deviations to changes to the demand plan to category DSP.
• Support unfulfilled orders management by:
• Duplicating order management.
• Supporting order execution with CS ensuring orders in line with forecast (PIPO, delisted SKU’s, SFA update etc.).
• OOS Reason Codes and driving actions.
• Coordinate between Sales, CCSD & Supply Chain to provide transparency and maintain good communication and collaboration.
• Support local Sales team by providing input on a regular basis regarding ±ve trends (ex. consecutive bias) and exceptions in terms of orders and potential Supply issues.
  
  

What Will Make You Successful…

• Bachelor’s degree preferably in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Business Management, Supply Chain, or Logistics.
• 0-2 years of relevant experience.
• Full proficiency in English language skills.
• Strong Communication and Presentation skills.
• Excellent knowledge with Microsoft Excel. Power BI is a plus.
• Flexibility.
• Highly skilled in statistical analysis & forecasting.
  
  

We are Nestlé, the largest food and beverage company. We are 308,000 employees strong driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. Our values are rooted in respect: respect for ourselves, respect for others, respect for diversity and respect for our future. With more than CHF 91.4 billion sales in 2018, we have an expansive presence with 413 factories in more than 85 countries. We believe our people are our most important asset, so we'll offer you a dynamic inclusive international working environment with many opportunities across different businesses, functions and geographies, working with diverse teams and cultures. Want to learn more? Visit us at www.nestle.com.