About this role
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 ..)
Other facts
About Abbott Laboratories
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What you'll do
- The Manager - Demand Planning is responsible for developing consensus-based demand forecasts and coordinating inventory planning based on these forecasts. Additionally, they manage divisional PL controlling and engage with functional teams on SG&A spending targets.
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