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Demand Planner Recruitment at Unilever Nigeria Plc

Unilever Nigeria Plc

Demand Planner Recruitment at Unilever Nigeria Plc. Please ensure you read the job requirements before applying for this position.

Unilever Nigeria Plc – Welcome to Unilever, a global multinational and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) company with products sold in over 190 countries and more than 2 billion consumers across the world who use our amazing products every day!

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Demand Planner

Ref No: R-10299
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full time

Main Job Purpose

  • To provide the company with an updated weekly demand forecast.

Key Accountabilities

  • Maintains rolling forecast for 13 weeks + 15 months on an SKU level
  • Gets updates on local and central promotions and uses this information for forecasting
  • Provides the markets with a weekly update on various promotions and innovations
  • Is responsible to make changes/ updates in the forecast
  • Gets information from category teams on all other activities e.g. trade deals, home care drive and accordingly changes/ updates the forecast
  • Maintains an active/ valid list of SKU in the demand list
  • Maintains a SKU mix in relation to the % of sales
  • Maintains weekly forecast split
  • Submits the forecast to commercial finance which forms a basis for financial forecast
  • Keeps track and records issues regarding forecast accuracy, forecast consumption (Actual sales vs. forecasted sales)
  • Drives market-specific improvement projects to increase forecast accuracy
  • Is a part of the various other improvement projects e.g. foods forecasting, promotion forecasting and drives the action plan
  • Provides analyses at the required level of detail- SKU, brand, market, channel

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Requirements
Experience Required:

  • B.Sc Sciences (Economics, Statistics, Sociology or Industrial Engineer)
  • Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in FMCG experience

Professional Skills:

  • High analytical skills
  • Advance excel skills
  • Should have good interpersonal skills
  • Influencing skills in order to influence category teams
  • Planning an organizing skills
  • Organizational awareness- they should know their counterparts in various teams

Stakeholders
Internal:

  • Supply planners in the 3 SC, Category planners, sales forecasting teams, marketing/ brand managers, commercial finance.
  • The role has to interact with them to resolve issues e.g. make changes in forecast.
  • They need to use their influencing, negotiating skills in order to reach an agreement on the numbers

External:

  • None

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

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