Job Description
Are you ready to join a high-performing Operations team and take ownership of demand decisions that shape business performance, influence senior colleagues, and ensure our products are available when it matters most?
Bring your planning and forecasting skills to be part of India’s growth journey – Use your excellent stakeholder skills to assure an optimal build up of India’s business plans, that are grounded in market realities while clearly articulating BU-specific assumptions across the planning horizon consolidating key inputs from sales and marketing to create plans.
No relocation assistance is offered for this position
Core Responsibilities:
Own the end-to-end Demand Plan for a part of the Business Unit, covering both Consumer Sales (CS – sales to consumers, based on retail sell-out data) and Selling-In (SI – sales to retail partners) at theme, customer group, and SKU level.
Shape BU-level CS and SI decisions by balancing commercial ambitions with supply chain constraints, inventory health, and financial implications
Define, challenge,



and align demand assumptions with Sales and Brand Management, ensuring plans reflect commercial activities, product launches, and promotional strategies.
Work with the sales and marketing teams to gain an understanding of past performance and reasons for deviations from expectations, as well as the drivers behind Forecasting KPIs.
Work with the Business Intelligence team to understand drivers impacting consumer sales, including any changes to the category or country macroeconomic workplace.
Monitor and steer forecast performance (topline, theme, and item level), proactively identifying risks and adjusting plans to ensure strong in-stock levels while minimizing excess inventory and waste.
Represent Demand Planning in key cross-functional forums, shaping plans for critical campaigns and driving alignment on priorities and trade-offs.
Manage the Gap to Target process with Sales and Marketing to identify opportuniti

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