Market Collaboration Lead

Fantastic Opportunity to be part of our agile supply chain in the role of Market Collaboration Lead.

In this rapidly changing world, an agile supply chain (SC) makes the difference for our customer and consumers. Mars is building a revised and future-proof organizational structure, future fit planning capabilities & processes and underlying best in class systems. It transforms the way Mars SC works: more connected, transparent, faster, agile, customer focused and digital. This market collaboration lead, before demand planning, role is part of this new organization.

The purpose of this job is to enable best product availability for our customers and consumers. This via creating an aligned demand forecast, guiding excellence in execution and taking a business partnering role in our S&OP cycle.

What will be your key responsibilities?

• Owns the Consensus forecast for the Market
• Provides insights to the S&OP cycle, on the portfolio across the full horizon
• Maintains forecast drivers for the portfolio, understands drivers of base sales trends (last year, previous years and YOY), upside and downside scenarios
• Assess trends, risks and opportunities together with the Sales, Marketing and Finance teams
• Incorporates approved upside and downside scenarios on top of the system generated forecast at appropriate level of hierarchy
• Monitors forecast consumption versus forecast and work with product availability teams to respond to forecast evolution during the cycle
• Escalates short term forecast issues (unplanned demand) to product availability teams
• Reviews forecast performance metrics from previous cycle and collaborates with Forecasting
• Analyst to develop an action plan to improve performance

Experience / Background

• MSc or BA in business, supply chain management, science and/or engineering degree (sciences or business) preferred
• 3-7 years of demand management / demand plannning experience for a global or multi-plant CPG/FMCG company
• Knowledge / Experience
• E2E understanding of Supply Chain with experience in Demand Planning, Supply Planning, S&OP, Inventory Management
• Ability to present complex analysis in understandable forms to business stakeholders including the ability to articulate the needs of the business and the customers to supply chain stakeholders.
• Ability to listen to others and link to others’ ideas
• Fluent in English
• Supporting competences
• Manages Complexity -Business and Financial acumen
• Customer focus

What can you expect from Mars?

• Work with over 130,000 like-minded and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles.
• Hybrid working
• Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.