Demand Planner

About Flora Food Group

We offer consumers a compelling choice in four growing categories: butters and spreads, creams, liquids and cheeses. We hold leadership positions in many of the 100 countries we operate in, with iconic brands including Flora, Becel+ProActiv, Blue Band, Country Crock, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, Rama, and Violife, together with our local brands and Professional business.

Global branded food champion Flora Food Group, offers the next generation of delicious, natural, nutritious food. Our products are more affordable and more sustainable than their dairy equivalents.

Demand Planner

About the position

Location: Istanbul, Turkey

Hybrid

So, what does it take to be successful in this role?

Key Accountabilities

Planning:

• Responsible for KPI’s as Forecast Accuracy, Forecast Bias, Dispatch Rate and Obsoletes.

• Managing appropriate stock levels, driven by forecast improvements.

• Manage the demand plan across multiple of markets

• Build and run the Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning process (SIOP) including demand planning and the integration of our core business partners such as distributors

• Ensure goods movement costs are optimized in order to drive value creation for Flora Food Group and our customers

• Manage our inventory profile and ensure the right trade-offs between service levels, cost, and cash

Innovation / Relaunches

• Translate the innovation forecast for the full horizon (0-24 months) in APO.

• Represent MCO Supply Chain in Innovation project/ launch meetings for Go to market.

• Check feasibility of timings and production capacity of innovations and relaunches.

• Translate phasing in and out plan in the planning system in cooperation with the Supply Chain Operations and Customer teams.

Business Partnering

• Establish and maintain strong relationships with Sales, Trade Category Management, Marketing, and Finance business partners for forecast optimization purposes and perfect execution of product launches.

• Understanding of the emotion of the business in order to communicate and distribute the correct information to the business (develop a high degree of business sense).

Obsoletes Management

• Provide transparency about potential risks and obsolete regarding innovations, delistings, and relaunches.

• Focus on prevention and solving obsoletes (including business approval).

• Represent Supply Chain with respect to obsolete related topics.

• Develop, build, and source the capabilities to ensure customer satisfaction and our growth targets are delivered in full

Skills, experience, and qualifications:

• Analytical, Excel skills are the basics, Power BI the new toolset

• Excellent communication skills.

• Structured way of working.

• Knowledge of demand planning and systems, e.g. SAP/ APO/ IBP / Excel/ Power BI

• Operational experience in and knowledge of the Supply Chain

• Minimum 3 years of experience in supply chain planning at a leading FMCG company

• Fluent in English

We understand your resume might not be up to date and recommend that you apply with what you have or your LinkedIn Profile. Flora Food Group is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workplace, we understand that you might not meet all the requirements stated in the description, but we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be the right candidate for this role or other roles. 

Flora Food Group is an employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and equal opportunities for all. We recruit based only on values, qualifications, performance, skills, behaviours, experience, and knowledge. We ensure job advertisements are free from unintentional bias.

No personal characteristics should be a barrier to joining Flora Food Group. We prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or other personal characteristics.