Objective & Purpose:

• Develop and execute Robust and comprehensive Demand Planning strategies and implement across PepsiCo India Region in alignment with BU and sector requirements
• Act as interface between sales and supply chain by ensuring accurate sales forecasts for planning
• Lead and continuously improve the S&OP process for India business in collaboration with sales, category, Supply planning to ensure execution of plans for business

Scope:

• Yearly volume across 10+ brands and 230 SKUs contributing to ensure no opportunity losses and support planned volume and NR growths
• All four Sales Units across the India Country spanning across COSOs, CoMans & DCs to serve Customers.
• Key MT Chains SC delivery
• National role working in collaboration with Sales, Category, Supply Planning to drive the end-to-end demand planning
• New products, promotions, MRP changes leading to almost 300+ projects per year as per NPD commercialization calendar

• Accountable for forecasting sales demand as per the S&OP cycle to ensure better planning and execution.
• Continuously improve the S&OP process to facilitate business decisions on driving profitable growth
• Institutionalizing Best Practices and supporting tools as guided by sector- driving capability, digitization, and agile and synchronized supply chain planning, to deliver optimized costs and delivering productivity, service, and efficiency
• Accountable for ensuring all demand planning KPIs such as Forecast Accuracy, Fill rates, NPD timelines, are met within stipulates timelines in the most optimum manner for business.
• Supporting execution of innovations, changeovers, NPDs within stipulated timelines to support the innovation agenda for PepsiCo
• Facilitate Planning for AOP and SBP in collaboration with Sales, P&P, Supply Planning
• Acts as the single point of contact for Sales teams for forecasting future sales and providing necessary inputs to supply Planning to ensure execution.
• Custodian of FG write off to ensure it is kept to a minimum and have constant improvement Year on Year through efficient planning and by collaborating with Sales and Supply Planning

• 6+ years of Supply Chain/ Logistics Operations with preferred FMCG Experience
• Engineer with an MBA preferable from a premier SC institute
• An excellent working knowledge of Supply Chain processes and systems
• An extensive understanding of Supply Chain Management, both operations and development, and a good working knowledge of the broader Supply Chain Industry
• Experience in leading a mature S&OP enabled Supply Chain team
• Excellent analytical skills
• Strong communication, influencing and collaborative skills
• Outward looking with a real understanding of the key customer requirements and developments
• Supply planning overview
• Good Process automation knowledge