Job Description :
Job Title: Demand Planning Manager – West, Central, and Other Africa
Level: L5
Reports To: Supply Chain Lead – West, Central, and Other Africa
Location: Lagos
About the Function:
Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team are problem-solvers, sourcing, producing, and delivering our much-loved brands to delight customers around the globe. Over half of Diageo’s 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It’s an intricate and sophisticated operation that’s the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations.
Our teams in 100 sites in over 30 countries cover production facilities, supplier relationships, customer collaborations and third-party agreements. We’re committed to realising our ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’ goals, to protect the environment and support our farmers and suppliers. Whatever your skills and experience, we’ll help you to grow in our inclusive culture.
About the team:
Diageo is a global organisation with over 28,000 dedicated people and a presence in 180 countries. Across our 21 markets, our brand portfolio represents our biggest strength, and our biggest passion. Be it our global giants, local stars, or premium brands, we use our vision, creativity, and courage to drive the growth of our products worldwide. We invent strong brands for today and for the future, upholding the quality of our products and taking personal accountability for both the history and for the future of our brands.
Africa businesses account for over 10% of Global Diageo revenue, with a workforce of more than6,000 employees. We create wealth both directly through our operations and indirectly through our broader value chains where we support development and growth in partnership with businesses and communities.
We are committed to delivering sustainable performance and our vision is to be destination of choice for Diageo investment. We are building a track record of attracting, retaining, developing, and exporting best-in-class diverse talent for Diageo and ignite people to deliver great performance. We are a force for good in communities and care about the planet with focus on water, farming, and education among others, which are the most critical components for our communities.
Today, Africa is a predominantly beer region, and we will continue to growth beer fast. We also recognise an even greater opportunity in spirits and recently reorganised our business to put focus on redefining and accelerating spirits to double its current revenue through the SWC organisation.
About the role:
To drive best in class demand planning through the One Plan cycle to deliver an 18-month rolling forecast for all SKUs and ensuring compliance to standards for 15 different countries for beer demand and 17 different countries for spirits demand.
Work with customer marketing, marketing, sales, supply and finance team by providing and maintaining very robust informed and statistically based forecast of demand plans at SKU level considering SIT to support drive continuously improving forecast accuracy to support stock availability for orders.
Ensure demand volume forecasts match seamlessly financial forecasts submitted at all time horizons.
Work closely with scotch planners to support portfolio harmonisation, SKU rationalisation and appropriate forecast signalling.
Role Responsibilities:
• Drive the One Plan cycle each month for West, Central, Other Africa and ensure compliant completion for effective business planning.
• Challenge for continuous improvement to reach 80% forecast accuracy for the region
• Support portfolio harmonisation and SKU rationalisation projects
• Maintain demand planning reports for global submission and any software as required
o Providing detailed analysis of forecast trends and critical metrics to guide the gap management process ·
o Conducting root cause analysis and corrective action planning to understand sales forecast accuracy and Bias
Experience / skills required:
• Educational Qualifications: A Bachelor degree in Maths, Supply chain or related field is required. A Master's degree is considered advantageous.
• Supply Chain Experience: Minimum 5 years of demand planning experience with a proven track record, including at least 2 years of experience working with multi-country responsibility.
• Communication and Influencing Skills: Excellent communication and influencing skills are vital for effective interaction within the supply chain and across different collaborators.
• Demand Management Expertise: Strong understanding of core Demand Management processes and familiarity with forecasting heuristics to anticipate market demands accurately.
• Supply Chain Knowledge: Good knowledge of the end-to-end supply chain and the ability to comprehend the impacts of demand signals on various supply chain functions.
• Analytical and IT Skills: Proven analytical skills, proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, and excellent excel skills are required. Experience of PowerBI is preferred.
Strategic thinking - A strategic and visionary leader able to make ambitious strategic choices that deliver for the short and long term.
Commercial savvy – An understanding of business end to end and providing robust counsel to executive team.
Performance driven - Has an acute focus on performance and results, is highly accountable and determined to win.
Agile - Demonstrates pace and vitality, responding quickly to emerging threats and opportunities,
Influencing – can navigate a matrix organisation and build brilliant relationships internally and externally.
Personally resilient – able to maintain emotional balance in the face of pressure and high-performance expectation.
Externally focused - Great external radar to spot opportunities and challenges and strongly networked into key communities of experts to understand market and legislation trends.
Invest in Talent – Track record of leading leaders and ability to build and nurture high performing teams and insightful into what drives performance.
Flexible Working Statement:
Flexibility is key to our success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations, our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported from day one
Diversity statement:
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And crafting an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.
We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be encouraged and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.
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Worker Type :
Regular
Primary Location:
Lagos HQ
Additional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date :
2025-04-14
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What We Do
Diageo's official LinkedIn account. We're a global leader in premium drinks, across spirits and beer, a business built on the principles and foundations laid by the giants of the industry.
With over 200 brands sold in 180 countries, our portfolio has remarkable breadth. From centuries-old names to exciting new entrants, and global giants to local legends, we're building the very best brands out there, and with over 30,000 talented people based in over 135 countries, we're a truly global company. With such diversity, we're able to truly represent our broad consumer base and think differently about the future.
To maintain our position as leaders in the alcoholic beverage market, we always invest in the future and are mindful of the impact we have. Because just like the legends of our past, we're here to raise the bar – for people as well as the planet
