Associate Manager Demand & Supply Planning

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منذ 12 ساعة تقريباً

	نوع العقد	دوام كامل
	طبيعة الوظيفة	بالموقع
	الموقع	جدة

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About the Role

Nestlé Saudi Arabia is seeking an Associate Manager, Demand & Supply Planning, to join their team in Jeddah. This full-time role involves leading bottom-up consensus demand plans for specific categories within the Cluster, ensuring efficient alignment across commercial and operational stakeholders. The primary objective is to maintain end-to-end operational efficiencies, guarantee product availability with desired freshness, optimize inventory levels, and consistently achieve service level targets to support efficient growth and increased market shares for the categories in scope.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the Monthly Business Planning Cycle (MBPC) for assigned categories within the cluster to develop a consensus bottom-up demand plan for an 18-month horizon, aligning with Cluster/Category/Channel dynamics and ambitions. This includes leading pre-alignment and sign-off meetings with the Cluster head, sales, CDT, and marketing teams.
Integrate Sellout/IMS data into the bottom-up consensus demand plan by category, district, and SKU, ensuring trade coverage adheres to agreed stock cover policies. This involves analyzing sales out bias by SKU and district to inform forecasting decisions.
Conduct advanced price elasticity simulations in collaboration with commercial teams to model multi-scenario volume implications across product portfolios, identify risks or opportunities, and enable data-driven decision-making, particularly in anticipation of currency devaluation.
Collaborate closely with District sales senior managers to perform in-depth analysis of second-tier wholesalers, aiming to enhance forecast accuracy and improve demand projection precision across the distribution network, especially before price increases.
Work with commercial teams to manage the Integrated Commercial Planning (ICP) process and develop baseline demand forecasts for new product launches and promotions, ensuring realistic baseline and uplift assumptions aligned with market size, competitor pricing, APOS ambition, drop size, and competitor performance.
Manage Product In, Product Out (PIPO) end-to-end plans monthly to prevent out-of-stock situations or overstocking, based on MBPC outcomes, supply alerts, and previous month’s performance.
Connect with sales support regarding monthly landing performance and assess its potential impact on replenishment and full-year sales, taking proactive measures to optimize performance and stock cover at trade.
Ensure timely supply with appropriate freshness while maintaining optimal inventory levels by coordinating with various functions (clearance team, category supply planners, DSP category managers, logistics) to provide commercial teams with visibility for on-time availability.
Contribute to bad goods reduction through MSR meetings within the Cluster, ensuring action plans are reflected in MBPC as aligned outcomes, provisions are made by the finance team, and escalating risks when avoidance is not possible.
Continuously monitor KPI evolution (OG%, tonnage growth, DPA M-1, M-3, bias, COF, Stock cover, and Bad goods) to improve service level and accuracy through the MBPC process while reducing end-to-end costs.
Maintain and communicate the DPA learning log to the Cluster, Category, and Analytical hub, providing information on deviations versus actuals by reason code.
Coordinate with the local A&P team to ensure on-time execution and availability of promotional stocks in line with promotional planning SOP.
Support order fulfillment management, reason code assignment for out-of-stock situations, and develop action plans to improve customer satisfaction and mitigate issues.
Govern the end-to-end process of monthly pallet projections, collaborating with warehouse and logistics stakeholders to ensure warehouse space availability in anticipation of demand fluctuations, build-ups, and supply chain contingencies.