Demand Planning Specialist

Unilever is currently hiring for Demand Planning Specialist

Function: Customer Operations

Work Level:  WL 1C

Reports to: Demand Forecast Manager

Scope: Turkey

Location: Ümraniye

Terms & Conditions: Full Time

ABOUT UNILEVER

With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world.

At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

JOB PURPOSE

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. If you are passionate about designing the future of planning, enhancing your expertise in rolling out leading edge and harmonized demand & supply planning processes and tools; then this role is just for you!

Work Description:

As a Demand Planning Specialist, you will be expected to sit in the middle of the S&OP Process where you will work closely with our customer development, marketing, and sourcing unit teams to build an integrated volume and sales plan where you will coordinate the delivery of the results and make shifts on the forecast based on consumption or business need changes, and hence will manage all downstream supply chain operations. You will be the owner of the financial forecast cycle. You will also manage the exclusive distributors’ inventories within the targets of Unilever. You will have the responsibility of managing short-term demand-supply risks and managing them proactively within your sub-categories in Personal Care.

Key Accountabilities:

• Generation of volume and value plan through executing the demand planning components of the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process
• Understand past and future assumptions, risks, and opportunities. Taking proactive actions in distributors’ inventory levels according to future opportunities or risks
• Understand and apply statistical models, depending on historical patterns and horizons using exception-based planning
• Leads the development and facilitates the deployment of new capabilities in Demand Planning such as improvements on S&OP processes and digitalization of the forecasting and E2E S&OP
• Manage customer service team and work with logistics teams to ensure supply for maximizing the service level/availability of each distributor
• Minimize business waste risk by actively managing over and residual inventory of distributors. Ensure guardrail processes and governance to manage inventory and business waste
• Support and work with the related category leaders, providing E2E supply chain business partnership
• Provide insights on SC Demand Planning performance to the Planning Manager
• Lead the roll-out of global capability projects in Demand Planning
• Facilitate the respective virtual team and deployment of best practices globally in Demand Planning
• Orchestrate the Demand Planning community to continuously improve performance
• Deep-dive analysis of the performance of specific categories to propose improvement areas
• Report all the KPIs selected and comments on the performance (e.g., Forecast Bias, Forecast Accuracy)
• Healthy portfolio Management – make delisting proposals for non-performing products in distributive trade.
• Lead the replenishment process of distributive trade and have the mindset of continuous improvement.

Skills/ Experience/ Qualifications:

• Operational experience in a planning environment is preferred.
• Strong leadership skills for proactive management and communication of business opportunities and risks
• Challenging the status quo and pushing the limits within SC and business operation of the Personal Care category
• Excellent Turkish and English communication skills, both written and verbal

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicates from all walks of life! This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. 

ARE YOU INTERESTED?

Please apply via this portal as e-mail applications will not be processed. By applying to this role, you are confirming that you have informed your Line Manager and that you are at a point in your career with Unilever where it is appropriate for you to be applying for other positions.  

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment journey. Should you require additional information or reasonable adjustments to allow you to present your best self during this process, please contact your Talent Partner .

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.