DEMAND AND SUPPLY PLANNER - HEAD OFFICE, LAGOS - 0048 | BETA GLASS PLC

Job Purpose

This role is responsible for curating a demand forecast by products based on sales history and sales plan. The role also performs supply planning activities, ensuring stock availability/cover within target at optimized inventory and cost levels to meet current and future business needs.

Responsibilities:

•    Generate periodic (annual/quarterly/monthly) demand plan/forecasts and budget based on historical data, customer market visibility, stock level, business/sales trends, demand patterns etc. to ensure details needed are available for decision making.

•    Coordinate demand planning process via detailed collaboration with sales team to drive demand accuracy.

•    Coordinate monthly demand-review meeting with sales team to evaluate forecast trends, challenge numbers’ assumptions, understand demand driver and insure a full consensus on figures.

•    Develop master production schedule for glass production, detailing production sequence and lead-time in alignment with (KAMs) & Plant Managers for each month.

•    Work on all related reports for production planning, sales and inventory outlook used for material requirement planning, cash flow & warehouse planning.

•    Intimate KAMs, Supply Chain Managers & Warehouse Supervisors on stock and Sales Order (SOD) availability

•    Weekly Projection of sales target in alignment with KAMs to keep all hands-on deck to maximize sales.

•    Drive and optimize inventory management to achieve costs reduction/working capital via inventory dispatch planning and variance tracking.

Qualifications & Experience

•    Bachelor's Degree or Higher National Diploma (HND) in Science/Management or other related fields

•    4-6 years’ experience

•    Knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics Navision or any other Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software

•    Knowledge of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint Presentation

•    High Analytical, Numerical & Presentation skills