Our client vision is to be the world’s best performing snacks-led powerhouse, unleashing the full potential of their differentiated brands.
Powered by their strategy to Differentiate, Drive & Deliver, they are a leading company in global snacking, international cereal and noodles, and North America frozen foods, with iconic, world-class brands and strong underlying growth momentum and profitability.
Our client purpose is to create better days and a place at the table for everyone through their trusted foods brands.
As part of this purpose, they are committed to advancing sustainable & equitable access to food by creating Better Days for 4 billion people by the end of 2030.
Role Description:
- Primary Function: As the IBP manager, you will lead the end-to-end planning of the entire portfolio of the company for Turkey from a demand and S&OP perspective.
- You will also be responsible to provide the commercial and finance teams with the right visibility of forecasts, opportunities, and risks so that the business can make informed decisions.
- You will be key to drive a culture of growth and excellence, discipline, and accountability for the business objectives; promoting behaviors that support a one team approach to business planning.
- The individual has an integrated perspective of the business, connecting dots and challenging solutions to ensure strategic alignment with the delivery of short- and long-term objectives with focus on E2E execution excellence.
Responsibilities:
Demand planning & operations
- Owns the demand planning process, ensuring that it happens on a timely basis and all parties are compliant with the process.
- Partner with the commercial teams to understand and drive key requirements along with timely visibility of opportunities and risks enabling timely decisions.
- Manage the day-to-day relationship with the distributors from a planning point of view.
- Responsible for delivering orders on time, forecast accuracy, OTIF and IBP KPIs.
IBP process & maturity progress
- Work closely with IBP director on process maturity and IBP cycle
- Implement it through process, tools, leadership, change management
Partner with other functions in the Long-Term Planning
- Supervise building blocks creation and work closely with finance during the budgeting process (Commercial, Supply & Financial)
- Proactive management of gaps & risks/opps, follow thru to capture full value of initiatives or gaps
Take part in IBP Monthly and Quarterly Operational Disciplines aligned to Playbook
- Gap Management: Ensure monthly cadence, and bring one number across the system, identify gaps & risks/opps, monthly review of KPI’s and improvement actions
- S&OE: enable S&OE discipline with Demand and Customer Development leadership – ensuring visibility and action plans for sales and demand, connecting with Finance
- Reconcile variables between Gap and S&OE
- Drive alignment to a single number signed off by country manager
Requirements:
Preferred Education & Experience:
- Preferably Master's Degree in a Business/ Finance/ Engineering/ Bus-Related field
- Must have commercial understanding – 1-2 yrs in customer facing role in Supply/Commercial
- Experience in S&OP or IBP process: Building fact-based plans or working with demand signals to optimize results in the market
- English proficiency
- 5 - 8 years of related work experience in FMCG
- Capabilities needed of leadership, structured and critical thinking, clear communication, and people skills, analytical