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Demand Analyst- by Top Business

A multinational company located in new Cairo is hiring a Demand Analyst (Female)
Top Business Group | 13.01.2019

Job Description :
Demand Analyst is responsible for the collection, analysis and reporting of (sales) data to support management decision making and to help drive sales.
Understand the impact of business dynamics (NPD, EOL, promotions, events, seasonality, leads, tenders, contracts) in the demand plan
Highlight risks & opportunities in sales volume
Coordinate with local marketing team on innovation and promotion plan
Process local Secondary forecast into Primary (baseline) forecast and 18months rolling Demand Plan. Ensure assumptions with the demand plans are translated into the Country & Consumer Dairy Africa demand plan as input for the factory plan (incl tactical horizon)
Prepare and conduct country/regional demand review meeting and prepare demand part of the Consumer Dairy Africa S&OP cycle.
Communicate, report and follow-up of the decisions/constraints from the S&OP cycle.
First point of contact for the commercial organization (Country Manager, MT/GT manager, Marketing manager) for the operational and/or tactical planning horizon .
Follow up with the Opco commercial team on aging stock and obsoletes conform customer agreements
Coordinate and follow-up on customer quality complaints with QA dept. and factories
Monitor, analyze, understand and challenge the quality of the Country and OpCo demand plans (assumptions, deltas, trends, issues, gaps, risks, opportunities)
Drive continuous improvement of the forecast accuracy and bias
Coordinate changes in demand in the operational and tactical horizon within the network
Facilitate the scenario management process (in relation to Demand)
Coordinate any activities related to the constraining and allocation
Provide KPI dashboards, insights and decision documents at request or at own initiative regarding quantitative and qualitative developments by means of periodical (S&OP, budget, RF) and ad hoc reports and/or analyses, based on reporting guidelines.
Observe and evaluate bottlenecks and identify opportunities and improvement actions in Sales analyses, demand planning and demand consolidation related (work) processes, planning systematics, procedures and/or systems, and ensure implementation of improvements after approval in OpCo.
Key user for relevant tools (as applicable), Develop and refine the forecasting process, models and tools leading to improved accuracy
Leads and/or participates in assigned (sales, supply chain, cross functional) projects, within the project management guidelines (e.g. NPI, NPD, Change controls, improvement) in- and outside the Opco

Qualifications :
years of experience : 1-3 years
Work under time pressure
Willingness to travel to the production locations and / or countries
Superb Planning, Analytical & Mathematical
Excellent interpersonal and communication
Extremely detail-oriented
Influencing
Decision making
Accurate
Result driven
Organisation sensitive
Cultural awareness
Knowledge of principles such as forecasting, S&OP, statistics
Knowledge of sales & marketing in an FMCG/Food environment
Knowledge of ERP-systems (preferred SAP R/3, APO DP/SNP, BW)
Knowledge of MS Office (advanced)

Benefits :
Transportations
Medical insurance
Mobile alloawnce

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