Consultant - Demand Planning

General Mills
Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Company Overview

We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one another and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.

Overview

The fundamental purpose of this role is to drive improvement in forecast accuracy by optimizing the business processes, collaborating with business stakeholders and provide insights to the business partners (Regional Demand planners) to enhance business decisions and to support optimal service level for South East and Middle East Asian markets. This role requires you to operate in 11.00 am to 8.00 pm shift.

Key Accountabilities

  • Manage forecasting and replenishment activities by maintaining accurate Sales and Stock Upload and IMS Forecast uploads, validating statistical forecasts in OMP, running Distributor Replenishment Planning and Sell-In/Sell-Out models, reconciling inventory gaps, and generating bottom-up shipment plans.
  • Partner with Demand Managers and distributors to develop the consensus demand plan, capture assumptions, enrich forecasts with market intelligence, analyze cycle-over-cycle changes, and identify risks, opportunities, and trend shifts.
  • Maintain planning-system and master-data integrity by ensuring accurate Stock Keeping Unit and item-planning setup, new product launches, delistings, Product Life Cycle updates, forecast volumes, control-model and Sell-In/Sell-Out inputs, and timely SharePoint requests.
  • Support the Sales and Operations Planning cycle by preparing Demand Review pre-work, In-Market Sales, Shipments, and Inventory analyses, building-block summaries, Key Performance Indicator reports, assumption tracking, and version-controlled monthly reporting.
  • Track forecast accuracy, bias, stock availability, ageing, order-versus-plan, and supply-chain Key Performance Indicators; perform root-cause analysis for shipment forecast errors and communicate data-driven recommendations with strong ownership, collaboration, attention to detail, and problem-solving skills.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Education: Full Time graduation from an accredited university
  • Experience: 3 years of related experience in demand planning
  • Technical Skills: Operations and Demand planning process, Excel, Planning systems (like OMP/SAP/O9 etc)
  • Soft Skills: Critical thinking, learning agility, ability to work in ambiguous situations and different markets, strong communication and stakeholder management.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Master’s Degree
  • Major area of study in operations
  • Professional Certification – CSCMP/APICS etc

ELIGIBILITY

Applicants must meet minimum age qualifications in the country in which the job is located.

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