# Demand & Supply Planning Assistant Manager

**Company**: Red Bull
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

The Demand & Supply Planning Assistant Manager is responsible for creating and maintaining the consensus demand plan at multiple levels of aggregation for both finished goods & visibility items, using statistical models and utilizing insights from Sales, Marketing, and Finance.

Responsibilities:

## Demand Planning

- Analyze historical sales data, trends, base growth, distribution, market share to create/analyze a statistical forecast and determine the Operations Demand Plan.

- Collaborate with Sales to understand past performance, drive root cause analysis, and challenge the latest sales demand plan.

- Align on the consensus Demand Plan with Sales, Finance, and Operations during the monthly S&OP meeting.

- Compose the placement forecast for visibility items, identifying risks and opportunities to the placement plan and financial framework.

- Meet or exceed targeted KPI’s such as SKU and DC Forecast Accuracy and Service Level.

## S&OP Planning

- Lead the monthly Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process and define the meetings, deadlines for finished goods products and visibility items.

- Generate monthly local Supply Plan as input for the Global S&OP Process.

- Implement the globally balanced S&OP in the local supply planning execution.

- Complete the Red Bull IBP system requirements each month and on time.

## Supply Planning & Inventory Management

- Translate monthly supply plan to a weekly planning according to guidelines and restrictions.

- Establish and manage inventory levels to ensure no out of stocks and healthy product age.

- Manage inter-DC stock movements to ensure service and within budget.

- Handle repacking planning, including stock control, packaging material ordering, and repacking cost tracking.

- Provide Logistics Manager a rolling forecast for 3PLs on inbound, storage, and outbound volumes.

## Portfolio Management

- Collaborate with Marketing, Finance & Sales to conduct fact-based portfolio management and implement SKU portfolio review regularly.

- Establish long-term SKU portfolio management based on complexity and cost matrix.

- Manage product transitions of new and phasing out SKUs within budget.

## Import Inbound Management

- Track shipment schedule of FG and visit items, liaising with custom brokers on arrival status and sequence of unloading to warehouse.

- Bridge communication between HQ and custom brokers to ensure all import documents are ready and correct.

- Manage palletization during unloading based on channel forecast to reduce re-palletization cost.

Requirements:

- At least 2-3 years working experience in demand planning role, ideally in an FMCG environment.

- Strong influencing skills.

- Proven ability to run analysis from multiple sources, providing reliable and valuable outputs.

- Relationship builder with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

- An entrepreneurial “can do” attitude facilitated by continuous improvement and application of appropriate “best practices”.

- Accuracy, innovation, and results-driven focus with an attention to detail paramount.

- Good working knowledge of SAP or similar ERP packages.

Travel: 10-20%

## Skills

### Required
- statistical modeling
- demand planning
- supply chain management
- inventory management
- SAP

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