REGIONAL DEMAND ANALYST

Dreaming big is in our DNA. Its who we are as a company. Its our culture. Its our heritage. And more than ever, its our future. A future where were always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet lifes moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together when we combine your strengths with ours is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?

The key purpose of this role is to be responsible for providing an accurate statistical base demand forecast, capturing regional promotions a nd events into the

demand plan, preparing and facilitation of collaboration session with sales managers and district manager as well signed off 13 week rolling consensus demand

plan for the region.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Segmentation of SKUs according to ABC-XYZ methodology, data preparation, and cleaning historical data
• Running statistical forecast for the region in order to create a baseline weekly demand plan
• Prepare, facilitate and gather insights through weekly collaboration meetings with depot and district managers and embed these onto the iPlanner demand
• plan
• Collaborate with central demand planners in order to ensure alignment with long term forecast, upcoming NPDs and national promotions
• Review of demand planning KPIs, identify gaps and influence changes in order to improve forecast accuracy in line with set targets
• Capture demand for NPDs, events and promotions into the regional demand plan
• Support run out plans for discontinued SKUs through monitoring sales performance
• Track and Monitor performance of sales against published forecast in order to reduce obsolescence in the region
• Work with Central demand planner in preparing for monthly regional demand review with regional leadership
• Conduct ad hoc analysis to support regional stakeholders. ( e.g. T1 and T2 specialists, sales and finance/ppm)
• Review IDP plan & actuals

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant 3 year tertiary qualification
• Strong analytical ability to convert data into valuable business insights
• Good communication skills
• Familiarity with Supply chain principles, working with numbers, and picking up patterns in large amount of data. (Attention to detail highly important)
• Advanced ability to use SAP, MS Excel, and databases
• Excellent presentation, report drafting, and problem solving skills
• Ability to solve complex issues from framing of the problem to making recommendations

Additional Information:

• Band VIII

SAB is an equal opportunity employer and all appointments will be made in line with SAB employment equity plan and talent requirements. The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/ relevant information as criteria for short listing.