IBP Category Lead

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Job Description
** Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Possible
** You will oversee demand planning activities for your assigned product families in your business unit. You will also lead the demand review process and driving interactions with the cross-functional teams.
** How you will contribute
** You will:
* Lead the demand management agenda for the category, being the key interface between commercial (sales revenue planning) and supply (replenishment) to identify and evaluate the impact of potential availability issues/commercial changes including gap assessment and risk and opportunity discussions
* Partner with modelling team for the generation of statistical forecasting
* Manage, coach and develop a team
* Review standard consumption versus forecast at the customer and total product levels, liaising with replenishment and sales revenue planning to manage potential availability issues and the impact of under consumption
* Drive strong linkages with the commercial, customer collaboration, modelling, order fulfilment teams and supply planning including innovation and equity
* Drive continuous capability building in the demand planning team for planning improvement
** What you will bring
** A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:
* Comprehensive supply chain, economic, financial or logistics experience and commercial awareness in a fast-moving consumer goods or consumer packaged goods environment
* Open to learn new ways of working and is willing to use new tools
* Experience driving demand review and participation in an IBP cycle
* Able to influence cross-functional teams, working on the key priorities and improving the plan
* Able to build effective teams
* Knowledge in leading practice demand planning and end-to-end supply chain concepts
* Excellent problem-solving skills, analytical skills and verbal and written communication skills
** More about this role
** Join our mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

The IBP Category Lead will lead the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process for their respective business unit and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the development and execution of an accurate demand forecast. This role drives supply chain efficiencies, improves forecast accuracy, and identifies risks and opportunities to optimize business performance. A key part of the role involves collaborating with and influencing stakeholders through data-driven storytelling and continuous improvement initiatives.
** What You’ll Do
*** Lead, manage, coach, and develop a forecasting team, driving continuous capability building for planning improvement.
* Oversee the development of an unbiased, unconstrained 24-month forecast with properly documented assumptions.
* Partner with Category Finance to ensure appropriate linkage between IBP and financial forecasts, including key assumptions, risks, and opportunities.
* Collaborate with the Modelling Team to generate statistical forecasts.
* Work with Commercial Leadership to quantify and validate risks and opportunities, supporting plans to close gaps between forecast and targets.
* Partner with Innovation and Equity teams to validate the sizing of new products (innovations, renovations) and campaigns within the 24-month forecast.
* Collaborate with Supply Planning to ensure confidence in the demand plan, facilitating timely, appropriate forecast decisions for successful execution and delivery.
* Identify, communicate, and monitor risks and opportunities to the demand plan (e.g., abnormal demand, demand shaping, changes in sales forecasts, budgets, and strategies), supporting risk assessments and mitigation.
* Collaborate with Marketing and cross-functional teams on product lifecycle analysis, managing introductions and exits to optimize service and waste KPIs.
* Drive and enhance demand planning processes, leveraging available technologies and proposing improvements to boost efficiency and accuracy.
* Own and facilitate the Monthly Demand Planning process within the IBP/S&OP cycle, presenting changes and recommendations during monthly reviews.
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