Core Responsibilities

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Forecasting/ Demand planning

• Analyze demand and develop consensus-based demand forecast at lowest SKU level on a monthly basis. Forecast to be developed considering trending/statistical techniques, inputs from sales and marketing teams and alignment with long term financial plans
• Work closely with sales and marketing teams to ensure inconsistencies in the forecast are corrected in future to prevent any negative impact on customer replenishment or inventory
• Communicate the forecast to EPO teams as well as to the internal stakeholders
• Drive the affiliate monthly S&OP Monthly

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Inventory planning

• Co-ordinate with EPO teams the inventory as per the demand forecast and in line with the inventory holding norms
• Conduct periodic inventory to identify & balance excess inventory, identify potential obsolescence and work with finance and sales for liquidating the same

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Divisional PL Controlling

• Manage the PL from a FP&A side across all lines for Plan, RLBEs and Actual with specific focus on forecast accuracy.
• Engage with the functional teams on SG&A spends targets based on appropriate MIS and landing expectation.

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Cross-functional support & Projects

• Work closely and communicating effectively EPO teams, Commercial, Marketing and Finance teams on issues pertaining to inventory and drive initiatives to positively influence operating working capital
• Work on Misc. projects (like Global alignment projects, System developments ..)