Manager Demand Planning:

Your Job

An opportunity to enable exciting, mission-critical initiatives: Facilitate exciting, crucial missions with tangible top and bottom-line impact. Get things done by collaborating with country operating teams. Roll-up your sleeves to show the way in tackling challenges, when required. Use your sharp, analytical instincts and deep functional knowledge to problem-solve! Bring your collaborative style, maturity and self-belief / confidence to make people ‘believe in the cause’ and execute flawlessly.

A transformational experience: Kimberly-Clark is a winning company. Be it marketing, sales, finance, supply chain or HR, our winning teams ensure we stay at the forefront of exciting changes: new channels, disruptions in traditional ways of marketing, ‘smart’ operations… We will provide you with the landscape. You paint it with your business savvy, energy and attitude. A chance to collaborate cross-functionally, add value to the business and enrich yourself from the experience. No matter where you decide to go in future, this role is guaranteed to step-change both your business acumen and develop your leadership traits.

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, 25% of people in the world use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know that these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without skilled workers, like you. Here, you’ll use your skills to make some of the most helpful things for billions of people all around the world – all in a safe, stable, and caring environment. While our products support better lives for billions of people around the world, our company passionately supports the ability for over 45,000 employees to do their best work and enjoy life.

About You:

Job Description:

POSITION TITLE – Manager Demand Planning

REPORTING TO – Senior Manager Demand Planning

LOCATION- Mumbai

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop demand forecasts (operational forecasts) at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizons as part of a demand planning function.
• Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop statistical forecast models, and evaluate forecast results.
• Coordinate cross-functional research activities to reconcile significant variances and refine the forecast model to reflect updated sales and marketing assumptions.
• Interact with sales, marketing, and customer finance to understand demand forecast drivers.
• Utilize a collaborative and consensus approach by working with Sales, Marketing and Customer Finance to obtain and ensure that current and accurate information is used for demand forecasts.
• Use and maintain the Demand Planning tools as the primary forecasting system tool.
• Provide input to the Supply Planning organization in developing inventory strategies on existing items, new products, and product phase-outs.
• Closely coordinate and communicate customer action plans with supply planning
• Inventory Management review facilitation, actions follow up with business as well as SC team
• Track slow moving inventory and inform about goods likely to expire to sales head for taking extra steps for liquidation
• Production plan validation
• Dispatch and logistics management

Demand forecasting:

• Create base forecast based on historical sales data (primary and secondary) and market intelligence
• Assimilate and collate bottom-up forecasts from Regional Teams for each Cluster/ Division
• Discuss base forecast and bottom-up forecasts with sales & marketing team and develop consensus forecast
• Upload consensus forecast in required templates/ tools and share with Supply Planning Team
• Ensure hygiene and maintenance of master data (inventory norms, transit lead time, outdated forecasts / orders, potential expiry / expired stock, unwanted sales orders / open deliveries, NPL indicators)
• Actively Participate in pre-S&OP and S&OP process and meetings and ensure adherence to stated timelines

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

Professional with MBA (Specialization in planning & Operation) with 3 to 4 years of experience of managing/working in SC planning function in FMCG/Consumer Durables MNC organization.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Must have experience of working in an SAP Environment and possess strong Excel skills
• Must have strong data analytical skills
• Should be able to collaboratively work across functions / geographies (Regional/Global teams)
• Should have a continuous improvement mindset.
• Good communication is important
• Ability to deal with ambiguous challenges

To Be Considered

And finally, the fine print…
For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world. We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers. When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law. The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

This role is available for local candidates already authorized to work in the role’s country only. Kimberly-Clark will not provide relocation support for this role.