Plan daily Sell-In Orders (Sell-In Order proposals) and communicate that with VMI Customer via customer platform
Plan truck building loads from PepsiCo DC to VMI Customer DC; ensure the target stock level on VMI Customer DC
Communicate the weekly schedules with logistics team to accelerate the system risks and manage priorities, if necessary to ensure service
Align on proposed orders with sales supervisors on a daily basis
Maintain deployment planning data, such as safety stock and warehouse storage capacities in planning software (JDA). Responsible for maintaining master data in the system to ensure service excellence
Maintain the VMI Customer (Distributors) iventory and safety stock policies
Manage VMI Customer (Distributors) inventory levels and responsible for out of stock & over stock
Report the VMI Customer WH capacity and stock level, take necessary actions, agreement with Production Planning and Logistics Teams, to request production plan revision if necessary, informing about daily deployment plan to all teams and follow up the relevant week
Market insight capability – min. 4 years experience across the full breadth of market insight techniques – (retail audit, consumer panels, loyalty data, segmentation)
Fluent in English
Highly numerate with very strong analytical thinking with proven ability to connect data & insight from category consumption, brands drivers, macro & micro trends, and future forces of consumer change and deliver clear outlook scenarios along with implications for the business
Strong communication and presentation skills to be able to clearly distil a lot of complex data and information into actionable insights for the marketing/business
Strong analytical skills, able to synthesis and integrate learning from multiple sources and see the connections in data, trends, events etc to generate insights
Ability to combine data, judgment and experience to make effective decisions in complex situations and when there is a lot of uncertainty or ambiguity
Experience in developing and maintaining relationships with external agencies
Proven ability to manage a matrix organization (cross-functional / cross-border), collaborating and influencing, actively seeking the input of others to gain broad alignment to ideas, communicating direction and influencing decision making to move teams towards a common goal