Demand & Business Planning Manager,IMEA

What you'll do

• Plan events and refine the demand plan; also lead Demand Review meetings for the IMEA region.

• Act as a key counterpart to sales and marketing for all demand-influencing projects and parameters, integrating them into the demand plan (e.g., information on competitors gaining market share, increasing market growth, advertisements, and promotions).
• Manage Phase-In and Phase-Out processes for new launches, source changes, and global projects.
• Work in close collaboration with country heads, sales managers ,marketing and PM on business activities impacting the demand such as promotions/activations, tenders, new product introductions, product phase out, projects, wins/losses, price changes or market changes.
• Influence organization to go to the next level of S&OP process e.g. assist the implementation of integrated business planning, support the determination of a high-quality RFC, secure the demand plan sign-off.
• Lead Obsolete and Slow-Moving Inventory management across the region, identifying root causes, implementing preventive actions, and developing stock depletion plans.
• Steer biweekly S&OE meetings to track supply chain KPIs and ensure necessary actions are taken.
• Lead escalation to Supply Planning to enable commercial opportunities & mitigate risks
• Steer critical supply chain decisions and investments as part of S&OP Processes.
• Drive Portfolio Optimization by managing the end-to-end process for complexity reduction with relevant stakeholders.
• Define and maintain material supply strategies for the portfolio.
• Continuously improve the business planning process in line with the global planning operating model.