Senior Demand Planner

PepsiCo Inc.; Germiston; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

PepsiCo Inc. is seeking a Demand Planning professional to lead forecast development, alignment with sales and marketing, and cross-functional collaboration across local and export markets.

The role focuses on creating robust demand plans, managing promotions and new product introductions, and addressing abnormal demand with supply teams. Strong analytical and forecasting skills are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain or logistics is required.
• 4–6 years in a demand planning role.
• 6+ years experience in FMCG.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Experience with planning systems like SAP or JDA.
• Experience with data warehouses such as BI or BW.
• Market analytics background.
• Statistical modelling background.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Statistical forecasting SSC team to develop these forecasts.
• Understanding and verification of advanced statistical modelling changes to the baseline, as proposed by SSC Statistical forecasting
• Manage the forecast enrichment process (Promotions and NPD’s) and align volumes with Sales & Marketing
• Analyze relationship between promotional activities, new products introductions and seasonal impact on product demand to achieve accurate forecast.
• Track all promo activities and their effectiveness related to volumes & timing accuracy
• Perform demand and supply control: Ensure that unconstrained demand forecast is aligned with supply ability – and in case of gap to coordinate resolution with relevant stakeholders/client

Skills

Advanced Excel

Market analytics

Statistical modelling

Education

Bachelor's degree in supply chain/Logistics

4-6 years in Demand Planning role

6 years experience in FMCG

Tools

SAP

JDA

BI

BW

Job description

Overview

Plays a lead role in ensuring that product demand forecasts are created, reviewed, published and refined when appropriate from 1 to 24 months. Collaborate with Commercial Sales and Marketing (both locally and for export markets) to create demand plans at the required level for supply planning and to review the performance of these forecasts (FCA and BIAS) to drive improvement. Work with cross-functional teams to create robust demand plans for new product launches. Manage abnormal demand on a day-to-day basis and give guidance to supply teams on unconsumed demand.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Statistical forecasting SSC team to develop these forecasts.
• Understanding and verification of advanced statistical modelling changes to the baseline, as proposed by SSC Statistical forecasting
• Manage the forecast enrichment process (Promotions and NPD’s) and align volumes with Sales & Marketing
• Analyze relationship between promotional activities, new products introductions and seasonal impact on product demand to achieve accurate forecast.
• Track all promo activities and their effectiveness related to volumes & timing accuracy
• Perform demand and supply control: Ensure that unconstrained demand forecast is aligned with supply ability – and in case of gap to coordinate resolution with relevant stakeholders/client

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain/Logistics
• 4-6 years in a Demand Planning role
• 6 Years Experience in FMCG
• Advanced Excel Skills
• Planning Systems in depth Knowledge e.g. SAP, JDA
• Experience with Data warehouses e.g. BI, BW
• Market Analytics Background
• Statistical modelling Background