Demand Planning Lead
Summary
Leads the monthly S&OP cycle for Monster Energy LATAM, aligning bottlers and production with market demand using statistical forecasting and SAP tools to optimize inventory and service levels.
A Day in the Life:
As Demand Planning Lead, you will own and drive the end‑to‑end S&OP cycle, from baseline forecasting through the constrained demand plan. You will orchestrate alignment between bottlers and the company, reconciling depletions and deliveries to create a single source of truth. You will translate demand signals into clear, actionable inputs for production facilities, ensuring supply keeps pace with the market. Through timely, data‑driven analysis of demand variability, you will proactively recommend adjustments to optimize service, inventory, and performance.
The Impact You'll Make:
- Lead S&OP (sales and operations planning) cycle, driving all monthly demand reviews with bottlers at both depletions and delivery levels. Including supply constrictions (logistics, production, material availability, etc.) that might affect demand plan.
- Sales forecasting based on statistical models and customer insights (baseline construction).
- Maintain records of all building/destroying blocks, affecting sales in order to correct historical data (example price increase, out of stocks, distribution disruption, etc., volume promotions).
- Guarantee updated demand signals are properly directed to production centers including availability and production feasibility.
- Monitor weekly sales advances, identify deviations and trends, timely propose mitigation actions to reduce the impacts on the supply chain after unforeseen deviations.
- Guarantee the fulfillment of orders for the costumer, also guarantee agreed volumes are properly ordered from bottler to company, accordingly to frozen periods.
- Sales performance indicators analysis including forecast accuracy, sales compliance, OTIF (on-time, in-full), fill rate. Identify trends, risk operations.
- Support commercial activities that implies demand and sales forecast (like BP construction, etc.)
Who You Are:
- Prefer a Bachelor's Degree in the field of Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Logistics or related field of study.
- Additional Experience Desired: More than 5 years of experience in supply chain and logistics
- Additional Experience Desired: More than 5 years of experience in Inventory control and customer services
- Computer Skills Desired: Advance user Microsoft Office
- Preferred Certifications: Proficiency using SAP, Power BI, Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO)
- Additional Knowledge or Skills to be Successful in this role: Fluent English - Spanish preferred
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