Job Description                             Demand Planning Analyst                         COTY

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SUPPLY CHAIN                 SERVICE: Division (CB) Demand Planning               Location: Amsterdam

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Key Responsibilities & Tasks

Category Forecast Reasonability and Sufficiency

Ensure overall reasonability of sales forecasts for the category and individual houses:

• Develop and retain an in depth understanding of the 24-month rolling forecast for the category with market trends, business targets & key innovation building blocks (at house/product level).
• Provide forecast reasonability recommendations to regional S&OP leaders for BU discussion.
• Perform some interventions/work with specific BUs as aligned with regional S&OP Leader.
• Represent the divisional demand team in the category Weekly & Monthly Hub Performance Reviews – maintaining an in depth understanding of the supply chain set-up for the category.
• Provide input and message tracks for the Divisional S&OP meetings.

KPI reporting

Calculate and publish results at BU and Division/House level for the different Output and In-process measures, with special focus on:

• Sales Plan Performance (SPP1/SPP3) measuring overall bias for relevant category and houses.
• Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE90/OFC/UFC) measuring mix accuracy for relevant category and houses.

Gap analysis and action plans definition with ownership defined; by leveraging category ad-hoc analysis as well as root-cause consolidation from Market KPI Reviews.

Demand Capability building

• Work with the demand planning community to identify needs and deliver training.
• Manage improvement projects (ie. processes, tools, systems) including cross-department and cross-BU interactions at a category basis.

Global Brand Demand Planning responsibilities:

For the Brands under your responsibility, bring visibility to the Global & Regional Teams (Marketing, Trade, Finance, Initiative Management, Lifecycle, etc.). regarding the monthly « Sales & Operations Planning » cycle (S&OP). Own the monthly/quarterly Brand Demand Review where Sales Forecast from our worldwide markets is reconciled, and brand performance is analysed, focusing on the top markets, product lines & IRCs, as well as the latest IMP launches (e.g. focus on key deviations between forecast and Markets actual shipments, root-cause forecast volatility, ensure forecast reasonability and adherence with discontinuation processes, Phase-in/Phase-out transitions, new products launches performance vs original commitments, evaluating potential of the Launch through internal and external benchmarking, etc.). Help Global & Regional Teams to identify the gaps vs targets and list of Risk & Opportunities from BU’s to facilitate decision-making at Total Brand level and strategy execution.

Plan/LE updates

Own the generation of the demand latest estimate for the category:

• Connect with NPD (new launches not yet in JDA), with Brands Finance (Strat Plan), Trade Marketing & Lifecycle to obtain all relevant building blocks for the category demand plan.
• Build projection for category with validated sourcing plan.

Initiative forecasting & performance

Collaborate with Innovations Team to align and monitor innovation category forecast and performance.

• Collaborate with lifecycle to align and validate initiative sizing.
• Upload Operational Forecast in JDA for Giftsets and Y1 Innovations before markets forecast upload.
• Track forecast evolution versus Execute gate; and versus previous S&OP submissions.

Key Competencies

• Fluent in English (written and spoken).
• Excellent business communication skills (written and verbal) and collaborative skills.
• Strong business understanding – ability to ask the right questions to identify and solve a problem.
• Inspiring communicator towards various backgrounds attendance/departments.
• Ability to work self-sufficiently - organized and energized to drive a monthly drumbeat.
• Problem-solving & scenario-building facilitator.
• Strong understanding and experience of the Demand & S&OP processes including key metrics.
• Strong analytical skills including good working knowledge of Excel and company demand planning software (JDA, MFR).
• VBA, Power BI knowledge will be an advantage.
• Passion for process standardization and continuous improvement.
• Very good understanding of Supply Chain (Planning, Procurement, Manufacturing, Logistics).