Senior demand planner

Campari Group today is a major player in the global branded spirits industry, with a portfolio of over 50 premium and super premium brands, marketed and distributed in over 190 markets around the world, with leading positions in Europe and the Americas.

Headquartered in Milan, Italy, Campari Group owns 25 plants worldwide and has its own distribution network in 26 countries, and employs approximately 4,700 people.

Shares of the parent company Davide Campari - Milano N.V. are listed on the Italian Stock Exchange since 2001. Campari Group is today the sixth-largest player worldwide in the premium spirits industry.

General Description of the Role

The Demand Planner role assumes full business process ownership of Sales Forecasting & Demand Planning providing governance of process and system, ensuring overall compliance with the global planning cycle and monthly activities.

The Demand Planner is responsible to guarantee regional view data integrity & aggregation to provide the volume forecast outlook and support the Managing Director and management teams in decision making process. This role also is the key business reference between the SC Planning HUB to drive & coordinate continuous improvement initiatives across the countries and facilitate operational activities such as setting inventory policies and reviewing demand & supply performance.

Key Responsibilities and activities

• Educating and developing best practice of forecast sharing and depletions tracking with the distributors. Working alongside the Sales teams to ensure they are submitted in a timely manner.
• S&OP champion to drive the change management and continuous improvement to achieve the S&OP vision, objectives and desired benefits.
• Process owner for forecast accuracy KPI to ensure definition and measurement is fully embedded in each country and carry out analysis & reporting. Consolidate input for Monthly and Quarterly Business Reviews.
• Champion for the SAP-APO demand planning system ensuring that the system is deployed and fully utilized. Responsible to execute proper APO DP system settings and master data per each country and manage system maintenance and APO DP ticket management.
• Conduct ongoing training both process and system to key users in Sales, Marketing, FP&A, distributors to ensure full understanding of S&OP and the planning activities are performed in the correct manner.
• Ensure full deployment & usage of BW reports & KPIs across the countries and consolidate, analyse for management teams.
• Carry out assessment and coordinate Demand planning changes resulting from new brand acquisitions/ integrations of new key customer/ distributors or changes in supply network.

MONTHLY S&OP PROCESS – Activities

FORECAST GENERATION

Support Sales in the leadup to forecasting enrichment, ensuring that the APO planning book has the right SKU’s, through realignment and mapping. Generates a 24 month forecast based on previous forecast cycle inputs for Sales to review.

FORECAST ENRICHMENT

Coordinates Sales and Marketing Users to enrich the forecast proposals in accordance with Brand / SKU planning levels and complete the rolling 24 month planning horizon in the APO system. Proactively communicate with marketing on new product development (Innovation & Fast Track) to keep abreast of all NPD and promotion plans. Include new “Phase In” SKUs in the monthly Planning Cycle briefs to Sales, Marketing & Finance to capture volume forecast in APO system as early as possible.

FORECAST REVIEW

Review the Consensus Forecast consolidation, check gaps & exceptions with Sales & Marketing versus previous cycle and budget. Coordinate with FP&A to convert the Sales Forecast volumes into the Financial Forecast projection utilizing the APO / BPC systems. Prepare the Consensus meeting agenda and forecast review dashboard on a monthly basis and chair the ‘volume consensus meeting’ with internal stakeholders. Fine tune forecast on feedback received during Consensus meeting and prepare forecast release by 18:00hrs 4th working day of each month.

FORECAST TRACKING

Responsible for Forecast tracking to identify exceptions in demand patterns (actual sales vs Consensus Forecast) that may trigger interim supply review/ actions. Responsible for KPI evaluation on forecast accuracy at Country level to be shared in each monthly Volume Consensus Meeting.

INTERACTION WITH FP&A

Work closely with FP&A to share demand trends and key deviations to highlight potential Financial forecast impacts. Collaborate on APO / BPC planning cycles and ensure consistency and continuity with BU & Group Planning calendar deadlines.

INTERACTION WITH SC SUPPLY PLANNING

Take the lead on driving phase out depletion plans and be the key to slow moving/obsolete stock action plans. Proactively participate in monthly planning hub review meetings, to share key demand trends & alert of major deviations from forecast tracking within the monthly selling cycle and medium term to ensure that supply can be reviewed accordingly. Contribute to establish service level agreements with SC Supply Planning and monitor performance for all countries belonging to the BU.

Education / Professional Qualifications

Bachelor degree with a major in Supply Chain management and/or Commercial Business Management. +5 years relevant experience in FMCG industry.

Skills

• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills; possess the ability to work at all levels of the company.
• Able to multi-task various projects at one time.
• Ability to effectively challenge status quo.
• Structured and detailed in their approach to tasks and projects.
• Ability to manage desired outcomes.
• SAP or other ERP skills.
• Strong analytical skills.
• High Intermediate technical skills in Excel.
• Must be able to work independently and in a team environment.
• Good facilitation skills, effective in understanding and translating sales and marketing activities into volume forecasts.

Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

At Campari Group we believe in building more value together, thus we see diversity in all forms as a source of enrichment. Our employment policies and practices ensure that we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities in all aspects of employment without regard to any individual’s race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or characteristics or expression, political affiliation or activity, age, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Campari Group believes that fair compensation and equal opportunities are crucial for employees’ well-being, empowerment, and engagement. Our efforts to ensure fair pay have earned us the Fair Pay Certification by Fair Pay Workplace, an independent organization dedicated to dismantling pay disparities based on gender, race and their intersection.

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