Demand Planner

Job Description
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Possible.
You will develop the 0-24-month IBP forecast by brand and at the stock keeping unit (SKU) level. You will coordinate, challenge and influence building block with input from sales, marketing and other partners. In addition, you will review the disaggregated short-term demand plan, which includes SKU/location mix and weekly pacing. Finally, you will provide the finalized detailed demand plan by SKU to supply planners and adjust it based on feedback from supply planners or commercial teams.
How you will contribute
You will:

• Contribute to the demand management cycle of the integrated business planning (IBP) process for your categories and to strategy and structure discussions
• Liaise with the commercial and operational teams and develop ways to continuously improve communication between the functions to support the delivery of the business KPIs for their families
• Manage forecast compilation process, which includes owning the short-term weekly plan and the long-term forecast (three or more months)
• Interact with modelling team to generate statistical forecasting
• Participate in the integrated business planning process and manage the demand planning tool
• Perform root-cause analysis for continuous plan improvement for key service issues, forecast error and bias, and share output with appropriate leadership

What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• Experience in a fast-moving consumer goods or consumer packaged goods environment, preferably in food or other fast moving, dynamic industry where shelf life is a constraint
• Experience within an IBP/S&OP environment
• Able to influence cross-functional teams, working on priorities and improving the plan
• Excellent problem-solving skills, analytical skills - and able to understand and interpret data
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Team player who can work with many other functions on a daily basis

More about this role
What you need to know about this position:
You will oversee demand planning activities for assigned product families in your markets. You will also lead the process and lead interactions with cross-functional teams.
Main Tasks:

• Being the key interface between the commercial department (sales/trade/Mktg/RGM/Finance/Innovation) to build unrestricted sell out/sell in volume and supply planning (DRP) to confirm restricted volume.
• Lead the discussion of risks and opportunities in the IBP with key stakeholders (sales/trade/Supply).
• Lead with commercial team the build of plans to mitigate Woff impacts.
• Understand SFA/Bias main drivers and influence cross functional team to take actions to correct trends.
• Support of the implementation of commercial and Supply Chain projects that impacts the IBP process.
• Support NPI action plans to mitigate future risk of Woff.
• Support weekly Sales Outlook while leading S&OE Process
• Be a guardian of que quality of the assumptions that support the Business Drivers included in the plan.
• Collaborate with the modeling team to generate statistical forecasts and propose base trend adjustments.
• Lead the construction and analysis of consumption exercise (CEx) for market/Channels wiht Nielsen Data.
• Collaborate with sales and supply planning to manage potential availability issues and the impact of underconsumption.
• Lead the Commercial Alignment process for markets in the scope and guarantee sign off with cluster lead.
• Boost demand planning capacity for continuous improvement. Lead, train and develop a team of Demand Planners and other teams about IBP process.

Education / Certifications:
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business or related fields.
Job specific requirements:

• 3-5 year of experience in supply chain, economics, finance, logistics and commercial awareness in a fast moving consumer goods environment.
• Be willing to learn new ways of working and use new tools.
• Experience in leading demand planning and IBP or S&OP process.
• Advanced excel skills.
• Knowledge of SAP APO.
• Ability to form effective teams.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, analytical skills, and verbal and written communication skills

Work schedule:
Hybrid in Bogotá or Cali, Colombia.
No Relocation support available
Business Unit Summary
Wacam is Mondelēz International's Latin America presence with more the 1700 wonderful people proudly representing a diversity of cultures and nationalities. Wacam includes 13 countries: Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Chile, Bolivia, Panamá, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemela, El Salvador, República Dominicana, Puerto Rico. We make and distribute our global brands and local jewels such as Field, Club Social to over 190 million consumers.
Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
At Mondelez International we work under a hybrid model, in which our offices at WACAM offer us a space for connection, collaboration and co-creation, with attendance being subject to the needs of the teams themselves and/or the business.
Where permitted by internal policies and local laws, new hires are required to be fully vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of employment by their date of hire, unless they are granted a medical accommodation.
Job Type
Regular
Demand Planning
Customer Service & Logistics