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Job description / Role
Company Profile:
Every day, around the world, people reach for Unilever products. Our brands are trusted everywhere and, by listening to the people who buy them, we've grown into one of the world's most successful consumer goods companies. In fact, 150 million times a day, someone somewhere chooses a Unilever product.
Look in your fridge, or on the bathroom shelf, and you're bound to see one of our well-known brands. We create, market and distribute the products that people choose to feed their families and keep themselves and their homes clean and fresh.
Our Corporate Strategy aims to double the size of our business while reducing our environmental impact by 2020. As a result, in the months and years to come, we envisage many opportunities for our staff to progress and gain vital experience. It's never been such an exciting time to join the Unilever team.
Company Profile:
Every day, around the world, people reach for Unilever products. Our brands are trusted everywhere and, by listening to the people who buy them, we've grown into one of the world's most successful consumer goods companies. In fact, 150 million times a day, someone somewhere chooses a Unilever product.
Look in your fridge, or on the bathroom shelf, and you're bound to see one of our well-known brands. We create, market and distribute the products that people choose to feed their families and keep themselves and their homes clean and fresh.
Our Corporate Strategy aims to double the size of our business while reducing our impact on the environment by 2020. As a result, in the months and years to come, we envisage many opportunities for our staff to progress and gain vital experience. It's never been such an exciting time to join the Unilever team.
We are currently looking for Demand Planner
Department: Supply Chain
Job Position: Demand Planning Analyst
Reports to: MSO Planning Manager
Location: GHQ, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Main purpose of the role
- To own, facilitate, and administrate sales forecasting and demand management for all categories across all Gulf markets.
Main Accountabilities:
Key Responsibilities
Demand Planning and S&OP:
- Owns all gulf reporting and improve the reporting accuracy.
- Builds governance mechanisms and ensures proper tracking and compliance of all reports and KPIs across Gulf MSO team as per global guidelines.
- Provides all analytics for S&OP identifying gaps and area of improvements in current forecast.
- Prepares all required reports and decks for S&OP meetings.
- Ensures that the appropriate level of focus is given to the short and long-term plans across all demand planning building blocks.
- Tracks demand plans compliance with the building blocks on a forecasting unit level.
- Tracks system compliance and provide actionable feedback to planners.
- Owns and track the full Gulf activity grid and traffic management across all categories to provide the needed recommendation to business team to deliver targets.
Continuous improvement:
- Analyses forecast accuracy and bias performance to identify improvement areas and implement process enhancements to improve forecast accuracy and forecast bias KPIs.
- Delivers excellence projects to improve demand planning KPIs such as automated forecast accuracy and forecast bias loss trees.
- Works with the global team to implement and deploy best practices.
Key competencies (max 5)
- Analytical and critical thinking
- Influencing skills
- Bias for action and proactivity
- Communication skills
- Ability to work under pressure
Requirements
Key skills:
- Expert Microsoft Excel using skills.
- SC & demand planning knowledge.
- Basic knowledge in SAP for both R1P and APO modules.
Relevant Experience/ Years of Experience
- Industrial Engineering Degree, Engineering Degree, Supply Chain, or Statistical Qualification.
- 0 - 2 years of experience.
About the Company
Unilever is one of the leading FMCG company with 400 brands spanning 14 categories of home, personal care and foods products, no other company touches so many people's lives in so many different ways.
Our brand portfolio has made us leaders in every field in which we work. It ranges from much-loved world favourites including Lipton, Knorr, Dove and Omo, to trusted local brands such as Blue Band and Suave.
From comforting soups to warm a winter's day, to sensuous soaps that make you feel fabulous, our products help people get more out of life.
We're constantly enhancing our brands to deliver more intense, rewarding product experiences. We invest €1 billion every year in cutting edge research and development, and have five laboratories around the world that explore new thinking and techniques to help develop our products.