Supply Demand Planner

About the role

The Demand Planner role at Tata Consumer Products Ltd is integral to the company’s strategy, specifically focusing on strengthening and accelerating the core business and creating a future-ready organization.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain accurate demand forecasts for all brands.
• Act as the bridge between commercial ambition and operational reality, influencing stakeholders and driving planning discipline.
• Gather information on factors that may impact demand, monitor actual sales performance against forecast, and refine forecasts based on changing customer promotional needs.
• Lead demand planning meetings, prepare and present analysis, and ensure consensus upon a demand plan with Sales, Marketing, and Supply Planners.
• Navigate complex business processes with understanding of upstream and downstream implications, and collaborate closely with Supply Planners to maintain up-to-date information on capacity, capability, supplier constraints.
• Own product lifecycle management and distribution tracker, ensuring prompt updates in the system to avoid forecast inaccuracies.
• Maintain and update forecast needs, re-align sales history, and manage planning tables and master data fields in SAP.
• Provide item-specific input into the monthly S&OP process and ensure the flow of customer-specific demand plans through enterprise software tools.
• Contribute to continuous enhancement in the long-term demand planning process, identify issues, and propose/implement solutions to improve demand forecast accuracy.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree preferred, preferably in Supply Chain Management, Finance, Operations Management or Engineering.
• 5+ years' experience in demand planning within FMCG businesses.
• Strong forecast and supply planning experience.
• Project management experience preferred.

Desirable Success Factors

• Strong understanding of supply chain management, logistics, and inventory.
• Proficiency in using demand planning and forecasting software such as SAP/S4Hana, IBP, O9, Blue Planner, Blue Yonder, Kinaxis.
• Proficiency in analyzing large sets of data and using data visualization tools like Power BI, Tableau.
• A self-starter mentality with the ability to work independently.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Benefits

• Federal Holidays / 3 Weeks Vacation / 2 Floating Holidays Per Year / 2 Volunteer Days.
• Medical, Dental, Vision coverage.
• 401K Match up to 4%.
• Employee Referral Bonus.
• Employee Discount on Local & National Retailers.
• Premium Subscription to Wellness App.