Job Opportunity in Lebanon at Unilever: S&OP information officer

Unilever is looking for an "S&OP Information Officer" to join the Team in Lebanon. The S&OP Information Officer will own, facilitate, and administrate local company sales forecasting and demand management for his/her respective country across Levant & Iraq.

Main Responsibilities:

1. A Base Demand Plan:
   • Analyze historical demand and filter out outliers.
   • Identify the most appropriate statistical forecasting algorithm.
   • Develop the base demand plan using the most appropriate statistical forecasting algorithm and make adjustments where necessary.
   • Understand the variance of base from consumer demand signal & proposes ways to continuously improve by working with customer to align base.
   • Communicate base to stakeholders for agreement (customer, category & marketing).
   • Event Management plan: (weekly & monthly process).
   • Works with customer to manage events.
   • Review events with cross-functional team to ensure efficiency of events is continuously improved in forward plan for the short, medium & long-term business plan.
2. New product demand (NPD) plan:
   • Generate the new product forecast using the historical substitution and like modeling / scenario planning techniques agreed with Marketing and Category Management.
   • Monitors NPD weekly in first 13 weeks and highlights any variance from forecasts using underlying, documented assumptions to category/ customer/marketing to minimize bias & maximize CCFOT upon launch.
   • Model’s total lifecycle of NPD (i.e. decline phase), working with category, marketing & development for replacement strategy of NPD, through launch, growth flat & decline phases.
3. Facilitate the Demand Planning Process: (weekly and monthly process).
4. Communication with extended Supply Chain:
   • Works with Customer Service Leaders to develop scenarios to change the phasing of demand to address supply gaps.
   • Communicates scenarios to change the phasing of demand to Country Managers and agrees appropriate action.
5. Continuous improvement which include among other task analyzing forecast accuracy and bias and identify and implement process enhancements to improve these KPI’s.
6. Customer Service orientation:
   • Understand the impact of the customer buying pattern.
   • Understands impact of OSA and CCFOT on base forecast & works with CS & Customer to monitor, manage and improve Point of Purchase Availability (OSA) and CCFOT.
   • Effectively communicates with and engages the Customer on operational issues.

Requirements:

1. Ability to produce Baseline Forecast.
2. Ability to integrate New Product Demand and Event Forecasts.
3. Ability to communicate Plans and Constraints.
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5. skills in using Information Technology.
6. Applicants must have an Engineering Degree.
7. 2+ years of Experience as Demand Planner.
8. Applicants must be proficients in MS Office.