Demand Planner Belgium

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Demand Planner Belgium

Integrated within a team of about ten people, your main role will be to focus to deliver flawless execution of demand planning for all channels/accounts across the BELUX Business in cooperation with commercial, finance and wider supply organizations.

Driving the demand planning activities, developing high accuracy long term forecast, driving the core commercial cycle (S&OP). Continuously seeking performance improvement in planning processes and improving maintaining the related KPI metrics. Participating cross functional projects across the wider business area.

Demand planning is a key role for the business by driving the volume to value presentation to top management based on your alignment with your stakeholders (sales – marketing and finance). If you want a more exposed position, improve your argumentation and presentation skills, be involved in decisions, this position is made for you !

In this role you will…

• Drive/ own end to end demand planning for nominated channels/accounts across all consumer healthcare categories to improve customer service levels and to reduce end supply chain costs and working capital.
• Contribute/lead market core commercial cycle meetings. (Sales and operations planning)
• Manage internal measurement dans reporting of demand planning KPI’s to drive improvement initiatives.
• Build a consensus driven demand forecast with commercial teams ensuring full volume and value alignment 0-36 months horizon.
• Driving a close collaboration with inventory planners and planning hubs to manage launches and inventory.
• Maintain a detailed knowledge of all components of the demand forecast like:
  • Statistical baseline
  • Promotion and repacking uplifts and cannibalization effects.
  • Sales and market intelligence
  • New product introductions, attending NPI meetings and managing My Psr requests
  • Consumption, stock in trade and market date.
• Manage an effective product lifecycle management process:
  • Maintain product status from pro-launch to obsolete
  • Proactively manage activities to clear residual and slow-moving stocks with commercial teams
• Interpret the key trends impacting individual channel/ account performance
• Provide expert input into the key market core commercial cycle (CCC) meetings
• Own and improve market forecast accuracy, forecast bias, statistical forecasting percentage KPI’s and forecast completeness
• Complete full root cause analyses and build mitigation plans for key issues impacting performance
• Work with sales and Commercial teams to ensure promotional activities and new product launch pipeline are fully reflected in the forecast
• Integrate customer inputs and insights from market data to the demand forecast
• Working effectively with peers and managers in the commercial, finance and supply organization.
• Participation and playing an active role in demand planning Workstream for improvements and updates.

This job opportunity is a permanent contractnotopened for relocation.

Why you?

Qualifications & Skills:

• Graduated in Finance, supply chain, Administration or Engineering
• 2 years of experience minimum in Supply chain management
• Excel, SAP / APO knowledge,
• Good end to end supply chain understanding
• Good commercial understanding and financial acumen
• Strong English and ideally fluent in market language

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

• Analytical skills
• Influence & negotiation
• Problem solving
• Team player

• Li-GSK

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Why GSK?:

Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture. These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork in a culture of Innovation, Performance and Trust.

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