REGIONAL DEMAND ANALYST

AB InBev Africa; Bloemfontein; On-site; ZAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading beverage company in Bloemfontein is seeking a Demand Planner responsible for statistical demand forecasting, collaborating with sales managers, and ensuring accurate demand plans. Ideal candidates should have strong analytical skills, familiarity with supply chain principles, and advanced proficiency in SAP and MS Excel. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on demand planning processes.

Qualifications

• Ability to solve complex issues from framing of the problem to making recommendations.
• Attention to detail is highly important.
• Experience working with large amounts of data.

Responsibilities

• Segmentation of SKUs according to ABC-XYZ methodology.
• Running statistical forecasts to create weekly demand plans.
• Review demand planning KPIs to improve forecast accuracy.

Skills

Strong analytical ability to convert data into valuable business insights

Good communication skills

Familiarity with Supply chain principles

Advanced ability to use SAP

Excellent presentation and report drafting skills

Tools

SAP

MS Excel

Job description

Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?

The key purpose of this role is to be responsible for providing an accurate statistical base demand forecast, capturing regional promotions and events into the demand plan, preparing and facilitation of collaboration session with sales managers and district manager as well signed off 13 week rolling consensus demand plan for the region.

Key responsibilities

• Segmentation of SKUs according to ABC-XYZ methodology, data preparation, and cleaning historical data
• Running statistical forecast for the region in order to create a baseline weekly demand plan.
• Prepare, facilitate and gather insights through weekly collaboration meetings with depot and district managers and embed these onto the iPlanner demand plan.
• Collaborate with central demand planners in order to ensure alignment with long term forecast, upcoming NPDs and national promotions
• Review of demand planning KPIs, identify gaps and influence changes in order to improve forecast accuracy in line with set targets
• Capture demand for NPDs, events and promotions into the regional demand plan
• Support run out plans for discontinued SKUs through monitoring sales performance
• Track and Monitor performance of sales against published forecast in order to reduce obsolescence in the region
• Work with Central demand planner in preparing for monthly regional demand review with regional leadership
• Conduct ad-hoc analysis to support regional stakeholders. (e.g. T1 and T2 specialists, sales and finance/ppm)
• Review IDP plan & actuals

Key Competencies

• Strong analytical ability to convert data into valuable business insights
• Good communication skills
• Familiarity with Supply chain principles, working with numbers, and picking up patterns in large amount of data. (Attention to detail highly important)
• Advanced ability to use SAP, MS Excel, and databases
• Excellent presentation, report drafting, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to solve complex issues from framing of the problem to making recommendations

Additional Information

Band: VIII

SAB/ABInBev is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in line with SAB/ABInBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/ relevant information as criteria for short-listing.