Demand Planner Costa Rica

**Job Description**:
**Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?**

**Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Possible.**

You will develop the 0-24-month IBP forecast by brand and at the stock keeping unit (SKU) level. You will coordinate, challenge and influence building block with input from sales, marketing and other partners. In addition, you will review the disaggregated short-term demand plan, which includes SKU/location mix and weekly pacing. Finally, you will provide the finalized detailed demand plan by SKU to supply planners and adjust it based on feedback from supply planners or commercial teams.

**How you will contribute**

You will:

- Contribute to the demand management cycle of the integrated business planning (IBP) process for your categories and to strategy and structure discussions
- Liaise with the commercial and operational teams and develop ways to continuously improve communication between the functions to support the delivery of the business KPIs for their families
- Manage forecast compilation process, which includes owning the short-term weekly plan and the long-term forecast (three or more months)
- Interact with modelling team to generate statistical forecasting
- Participate in the integrated business planning process and manage the demand planning tool
- Perform root-cause analysis for continuous plan improvement for key service issues, forecast error and bias, and share output with appropriate leadership

**What you will bring**

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

- Experience in a fast-moving consumer goods or consumer packaged goods environment, preferably in food or other fast moving, dynamic industry where shelf life is a constraint
- Experience within an IBP/S&OP environment
- Able to influence cross-functional teams, working on priorities and improving the plan
- Excellent problem-solving skills, analytical skills - and able to understand and interpret data
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Team player who can work with many other functions on a daily basis

**More about this role**
- Contribute to the demand management cycle of the integrated business planning (IBP) process for your categories and to strategy and structure discussions.
- Liaise with the commercial and operational teams and develop ways to continuously improve communication between the functions to support the delivery of the business KPIs for their families.
- Manage forecast compilation process, which includes owning the short-term weekly plan and the long-term forecast (three or more months).
- Interact with modelling team to generate statistical forecasting.
- Participate in the integrated business planning process and manage the demand planning tool.
- Perform root-cause analysis for continuous plan improvement for key service issues, forecast error and bias, and share output with appropriate leadership.

**Education/ Qualifications**:
Bachelor degre in Administration or related, with great numerical understanding and financial structure.

**Job Specific Requirements**:

- 3 to 5 years of experience as **Demand Planner **(S&OP/IBP), in Consumer Goods Companies.
- Intermediate English (B1).
- Excel Advanced.
- Knowledge of SAP - APO and ECC.

**Work schedule**:Hybrid model.

**No Relocation support available**:
**Business Unit Summary**:
**WACAM is Mondelez International’s Latin America presence with 1,700 wonderful people proudly representing a diversity of cultures and nationalities. WACAM includes 12 countries—Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and the Dominican Republic—and the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. We make and distribute our global brands and local jewels such as **_Choco-Soda _**, **_Doña Pepa _**, **_Coronitas _**and **_Cua-Cua _**to over 190 million discerning consumers.**:
Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Where permitted by internal policies and local laws, new hires are required to be fully vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of employment by their date of hire, unless they are granted a medical accommodation.

**Job Type**:
Regular

Demand Planning

Customer Service & Logistics