Key Responsibilities

Demand Planning

• Generates and updates demand plans, combining statistical and commercial forecast (including NPI’s, promotions and events) in cooperation with Commercial department and other relevant stakeholders.

Statistical Forecast

• Creates statistical forecast including differentiations, causal relationships, baseline/uplift, main drivers and demand patterns, seasonality and trend changes.

Stakeholder Management

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  Incorporates customer and consumer behaviour in the demand plan. When needed challenge the Commercial plans and assumptions based on historic performance and common sense. Initiates customer collaboration when possible
• .Generates and discusses alternative scenarios on the demand plan for the S&OP process, with clearly listed assumptions and risk assessment on volume and costs