1) Job Purpose The Demand Manager plays a pivotal role in translating market intelligence into accurate demand plans that drive operational, commercial, and ficial outcomes. Operating within one of the world s largest integrated aluminium value chains, the Demand Manager leverages Blue Yonder s advanced planning capabilities to create a unified, datadriven view of demand across regions, product lines, and customer segments.

This role is at the heart of the SOP (Sales Operations Planning) process ensuring every forecast reflects both market reality and strategic intent, and that supply, production, and fice teams work off a single, consensus demand signal.

The role is to operate across the complex business comprising of:

- Demand: Extrusions 92 KT/Annum and across 9 Streams, 66. 5K SKUs, 2K + Customers, Pan Geographic operations.
- Supply: 4 extrusion plants, 2 dieshops, 3 casthouses; multiple warehouses + value addition units that together deliver Extrusions (7. 6 KT/month). # of presses 15 extrusion lines [2025]

Network wide Working Capital ~ 15 days of Finished Goods, and 45 days of WIP (about 75 KT) 4) Key Result Areas/Accountabilities:

Key Result Areas/Accountabilities

Supporting Actions

Forecast Development and Accuracy

- Develop and maintain forecasts by building, maintaining, and refining demand forecasts using statistical models, market insights, CRM data, coordinating with Territory Managers for their inputs and Blue Yonder s advanced analytical tools
- Monitor forecast performance by continuously tracking forecast accuracy and bias, conducting variance analyses, and initiating corrective actions to improve precision
- Deliver a single, unconstrained demand signal by providing the official demand input to downstream supply and production planning, ensuring alignment across all planning horizons





Scenario Planning and Business Simulation
- Run scenario simulations and conduct whatif analyses to assess the impact of changes in pricing, volume, diecutting requirements, or project orders on capacity, profitability, and service levels
- Support strategic decisionmaking and present alternate demand views and riskadjusted forecasts to help business leaders choose optimal commercial and production strategies
- Integrate market and commercial inputs and translate sales targets, CRM pipeline visibility, and customer feedback into actionable demand plans that balance ambition and feasibility

SOP Cycle Enablement
- Participate in the Demand Review process and prepare and present forecasts for the monthly SOP demand review, ensuring alignment with sales, marketing, and fice teams
- Collaborate crossfunctional by partnering with production, logistics, and fice counterparts to ensure seamless handoffs between demand, supply, and ficial planning
- Drive KPIBased Goverce and support SOP goverce through regular reporting on demandrelated KPIs such as forecast accuracy, bias, and customer service levels

Digital Enablement and Insights
- Leverage Blue Yonder tools and utilize Blue Yonder s demand planning, scenario modeling, and dashboard capabilities to strengthen forecast accuracy and responsiveness
- Enable datadriven decisions and interpret realtime dashboards and performance reports to identify emerging trends, demand shifts, and planning opportunities
- Champion continuous improvement and drive enhancements in data quality, forecast processes, and system utilization through structured feedback and analyticsdriven learning

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📌 IBP Extrusions Demand Manager (Mumbai)
🏢 Aditya Birla Insulators
📍 Mumbai