Planner: Demand - Roodepoort at Clover S.A. Proprietary Limited

Job Advert Summary    

• Clover is looking for an experienced Demand Planner, to create and maintain product forecast for customer groups.Facilitate new product launches between Marketing, Trade Marketing & Supply Chain Planning. This position is based at Clover Head Office in Roodepoort. 

Requirements    

• Degree
• Relevant experience in applying job related concepts, techniques and processes at the required level
• Business English: Fluent
• Experience in working with senior management
• Computer literacy (Advanced)

Competencies    

• Proactive and action orientated         
• Must be a team player        
• Achieves Results Effectively        
• Maintains high standards         
• Commitment and motivation        
• Collaborate with others to achieve a common objective        
• Customer orientated        
• Communicates effectively        
• Ability to plan and organize

Duties and Responsibilities    
Develop demand forecast on daily/weekly/monthly (Clover and/or Principals)        

• Generate statistical based forecast, review exceptions, cleans history, validate assumptions, analyse variance between expected and actual results         
• Facilitate monthly rolling demand plan per product Group and/or SKU and/or SKU Family
• Collaborate with Marketing, Principals and Key Accounts to obtain market intelligence (MDT)
• Collect data, analyse historical trends, promotions, analyse market intelligence, map events
• Monitor demand plan daily/weekly/monthly and take corrective action        
• Conduct promotional tracking and analysis in terms of volumes and dates        
• Analyse deviations and demand changes and present findings to multi discipline team
• Monitor monthly forecast vs weekly forecast and take corrective action        
• Develop/track holiday planning forecast        
• Collaborate with Supply Planners and discuss future promotions, launches and forecast        

Create, analyse, communicate reports           

• Analyse and communicate order fill rate (supply levels to customers)         
• Run forecast error report, analyse and learn from reason for error         
• Draw reports on new listings/discontinuation and facilitate solutions          
• Conduct trend analysis on sku's and communicate corrective action        
• Analyse and communicate possible ranging per region        
• Run weekly forecast error report per distribution area\sku        
• Run and communicate promotional tracking report        

Optimise and review ideal inventory levels         

• Calculate and communicate ideal buffer stocks according to forecast accuracy levels
• Calculate and communicate minimum and maximum order quantities         
• Action stock reports, communicate overstocks and take action to move stock        

Maintain Supply Chain Planning Master data        

• Create new items         
• Phase out discontinued items        
• Maintain forecastable items to location (CIC file)         
• Maintain distribution relationships (direct deliveries or re-supply orders)         
• Maintain factory per branch item master        
• Maintain/Setup days to trade (DTT), primary distribution days        

Facilitate new product launches between Marketing, Trade Marketing & Supply Chain Planning        

• Collaborate with Marketing regarding new launches        
• Analyse/Identify similar product        
• Generate forecast per region         
• Monitor/action/report on new launch project        
• Monitor product trend and adjust forecast