Demand Planner

Full-time - Mid Level

Hybrid - Bangalore Kar, IN

Miscellaneous Manufacturing

About the position

3M has a long-standing reputation as a company committed to innovation. We provide the freedom to explore and encourage curiosity and creativity. We gain new insight from diverse thinking, and take risks on new ideas. Here, you can apply your talent in bold ways that matter.

Responsibilities

• Drive the S&OP process for Demand - Supply alignment with all stakeholders of assigned divisions
• Review statistical demand forecast, understand the internal & external drivers of sales of commodities assigned and use that to improve the quality of demand forecasting
• Engage with business leaders to create positive overrides on the demand forecast and finalize the consensus marketing demand forecast (qualitative demand forecast)
• Continuous engagement with the business teams to pick up possible demand fluctuations early and ensure seamless information flow into the supply planning and fulfillment teams to help bridge demand-supply gaps
• Continuous engagement with support teams for product availability
• Portfolio management - assess product lifecycle and ensure optimization of SKU portfolio
• Track actual sales during the month and generate intelligence around deviations Vs. final forecast to improve the future statistical forecasts
• Drive reduction in non-working inventory or excess inventory through pro-active demand corrections, information flow and effective liquidation push with Sales & other support functions
• Ensure relevant data integrity in line with corporate guidelines and policies
• Drive process & capability improvement in the Demand Planning function locally and implement the relevant global best practices working with the international supply chain organization.
• Review Customer Back Orders and liaison with various functions for Back order reduction.
• Support any productivity improvement projects or ERP implementation activities.

Requirements

• MBA in Operations/ Systems from a premier business school preferably with a prior engineering degree OR Masters in statistics/ related field.
• 3-6 years of professional work experience in supply/ inventory planning OR demand planning OR sales analytics function.
• Prior experience in leading a small/ medium sized team preferable.
• Keen follower of the evolving practices in the Supply Chain planning area & statistical business modeling.
• High Level skill in managing advance / complex excel / access databases and applications.
• SAP knowledge is preferred.

Nice-to-haves

• Candidates with APICS certification will be given preference.