Market Collaboration Partner - Toronto, Canada - Unilever

Unilever

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

Title of role:
Market Collaboration Partner (S&OP) - Beauty & Wellbeing

Work Level: 1C

Hiring Manager:
Aditya Jham

Location:
Toronto - Bloor Head Office

Purpose of the Job:

To serve as a citizen data scientist that can use and interpret data to derive a central forecast that is unbiased, accurate and aligned at the Business Unit.

Background

As part of the Supply Chain group, Market Collaborating Partner will be responsible to develop, maintain and distribute regular monthly forecasts (volume & value) by SKU for new and existing products within our Beauty & Wellbeing business.

This is a key position as your forecasts will enable other departments at Unilever to develop production schedules, logistic budgets, inventory plans, financial, strategic and corporate growth plans.

You will be involved in all aspects of the business planning process and will interact closely with all internal departments, being responsible for achieving forecast accuracy targets.

What You'll Do:

Lead the development of annual statistically trended base forecast for Supply Chain, Marketing, Finance and Sales. Integrating forwardlooking sales assumptions, historical trends, price changes, cross customer cannibalization, competitive activity, and product discontinuances for all regular business plans in order to provide guidance to the business unit.
Gather business insights and help translating them into a demand & financial forecast
Bring Customer insight / Intelligence through
Working with field BDMs to gain the latest field insights that could impact the forecast
Overview / understanding sales plans.
Overview of the activity calendar
Analysis or historical sales trends from AC Nielsen data, POS information and shipment trends to support forecast assumptions.
Use understanding of product life cycles to develop new item projections.
Continuously improve forecasts through evaluation of promotional activity, inventory changes, consumptions trends, category trends, media and advertising plans or extended service level impacts.
Support the Business Unit discussions with deep understanding of the market
Ensure updated and agreed volume forecast are submitted and aligned with financial forecasting
Monitor and evaluate the building blocks
Support the portfolio management and segmentation

What You'll Need To Succeed

3 years of relevant experience in Supply Chain, Planning (with a large focus in Demand Planning, S&OP)
Proficiency using Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI and MS Project; Anaplan, FEU and Rapid Response System knowledge is preferred
Agile, analytical and problemsolving skills, with ability to operate at all organization levels with keen attention to detail.
Collaborationfirst mindset, an organizational "connector" that easily works across organizational boundaries. Influencing without authority, and building rapport with senior stakeholders, outside of our immediate team.
Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to build a strong rapport with extended teams and be comfortable in interacting with and presenting to senior business leaders.
Ability to distill complex problems into actionable plans while influencing and collaborating with execution teams to drive successful integration plans.
Unilever Canada is an organization committed to diversity and inclusion to drive our business results and create a better future every day for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national or ethnic origin, marital status, family status, disability, genetic characteristics, and a conviction for which a pardon has been granted.

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