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Function: Business Operations / Integrated Planning
Reports to: Demand Fulfillment Manager – FOODS
Scope: Türkiye
Location: Umraniye
Terms & Conditions: Full Time
ABOUT UNILEVER
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JOB PURPOSE
Find your purpose at Unilever. You will sit in the middle of S&OP, where you will work closely with our customer development, marketing, and sourcing unit teams to build an integrated volume and sales plan, you will coordinate the delivery of the results and make shifts on the forecast based on consumption or business need changes, and hence will manage all downstream supply chain operations. If you are an expert in communication, willing to guide related stakeholders to grow our business together and ready to be owner of short/mid/long-term forecasting by your analytical thinking aspects, then this role is just for you.
WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE
This role works for FOODS BU where you are managing the demand planning operation for related FOODS brands.
Main responsibilities of the role are:
• Generation of volume and value forecasting through executing the demand planning components of the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process.
• To understand past and future assumptions, risks, and opportunities, and clean the sales data and build base forecast while keeping track of sales and marketing activity logs
• To understand and apply statistical models, depending on historical patterns and horizons using exception-based planning
• To lead the development and facilitates the deployment of new capabilities in Demand Planning such as improvements on S&OP processes and digitalization of the forecasting and E2E S&OP.
• To manage inventory while ensuring maximum service. Minimizing business waste risk by actively managing over and residual inventory. Ensure guardrail processes and governance to manage inventory and business waste.
• To provide insights on SC Demand Planning performance to the Planning Manager.
WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED
Experiences & Qualifications
Skills
Leadership
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