Lead Specialist - Demand Planner

Job Description

Role – Lead Specialist - Demand Planner Experience – 4-8 years Location – Gurugram Notice Period - Immediate to 30 Days Individual Contributor **Medical Domain Experience in Mandatory** What you will do Create and maintain high quality demand forecasts and demand forecast analytics. Must assemble and analyze all data pertinent to creating/maintaining the demand forecast, including historical order bookings/shipments, item master data, market and macro-economic trends, seasonality, promotions, and product life-cycle management. Serve as the primary demand planning contact for the General Manager, Marketing, Sales and Finance business partners Lead the demand planning process and monthly Executive Demand Review meetings and coordinate / consolidate plans with other Demand Planners, to ensure the process is effective and runs efficiently. Perform financial reconciliation against the financial plan, lead efforts to address financial plan gaps as well as demand-supply gaps and improving key metric performance such as forecast accuracy and forecast bias. Work cross-functional to develop appropriate action plans to close gaps Identify actionable insights and recommendations to support strategic decision making for senior leaders & lead defined elements of divisional demand planning team, including but not limited to process improvement, weekly/monthly reporting, documentation, and product life-cycle management Ensure the demand plan is collected and approved by the required business and financial leaders as defined in the process flow per the required monthly cadence Must Required Minimum of 4 years of business experience in: Supply Chain Planning, Demand Management/Forecasting, Sales Operations/Planning, Finance/Accounting, or Marketing Background in sales analytics, inventory management, new product introductions and supply chain metrics is required. Prior experience with demand planning tools like Oracle Demantra, Demand Solutions or i2 is preferred. Knowledge of ERP (Oracle) transactional data and SAP is preferred