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) processUnderstand past and future assumptions, risks, and opportunities. Taking proactive actions in distributors’ inventory levels according to future opportunities or risksUnderstand and apply statistical models, depending on historical patterns and horizons using exception-based planningLeads 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&OPManage customer service team and work with logistics teams to ensure supply for maximizing the service level/availability of each distributorMinimize business waste risk by actively managing over and residual inventory of distributors. Ensure guardrail processes and governance to manage inventory and business wasteSupport and work with the related category leaders, providing E2E supply chain business partnershipProvide insights on SC Demand Planning performance to the Planning ManagerLead the roll-out of global capability projects in Demand PlanningFacilitate the respective virtual team and deployment of best practices globally in Demand PlanningOrchestrate the Demand Planning community to continuously improve performanceDeep-dive analysis of the performance of specific categories to propose improvement areasReport 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 risksChallenging the status quo and pushing the limits within SC and business operation of the Personal Care categoryExcellent 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.  

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