Mars

Global confectionery, food, and petcare company

Market Collaboration Lead

Inventory Management +1Posted on Nov 10

Full-timeCairo, Cairo Governorate, EgyptNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

A BSc or BA in engineering, economics, or business.
More than 10 years of demand management experience for a global or multi-plant CPG/FMCG company.
More than 10 years of planning experience across different areas.
End-to-end understanding of supply chain, with detailed experience in demand planning, supply planning, S&OP, and inventory management.
A BSc or BA in supply chain management, or another business- or engineering-related degree.
10 years of logistics, planning, or procurement experience for a CPG or retail company.
Fluency in English is required.

Responsibilities

Own demand planning and replenishment for the assigned markets across the Mars snacking portfolio.
Own the market consensus forecast for the portfolio across the full planning horizon, incorporating historical inputs and market trends to drive the supply plan.
Ensure a balanced forecast over the four-or-more-period planning horizon by considering the statistical base, history, building blocks, promotional activity, distribution changes, and marketing campaigns; create and analyze scenarios against defined metrics.
Lead pre-Demand Review meetings in the market, provide insights for the consensus forecast across the full horizon, and own the cluster inputs in North Africa, Levant, and Turkey Demand Review.
Maintain portfolio forecast drivers and understand base sales trends, including year-over-year trends and trends across prior years, as well as upside and downside scenarios.
Assess trends, risks, and opportunities with the Sales, Marketing, and Finance teams.
Incorporate approved upside and downside scenarios into the system-generated forecast at the appropriate hierarchy level.
Lead the full replenishment plan, enabling appropriate stock cover while accounting for lead times and related risks.
Ensure market availability within target, escalating issues and taking corrective action when needed.
Achieve service levels through an appropriate supply-and-demand balance.
Escalate short-term forecast issues, including unplanned demand, to the network planning team.
Assess short-term availability and market opportunities, escalating to network planning teams when intervention or support is needed.
Own demand and supply key performance indicators for the cluster.
Lead a team of associates.
Navigate geopolitical challenges and make business decisions using in-depth understanding and leadership.

Job Description:

Role Description

The Market Collaboration lead will be owning the demand planning & replenishment for his respective markets on all mars snacking portfolio.

This includes Owning the consensus forecast in the market for their portfolio, in periods for the full horizon (up to 39 periods), ensuring sign off from the market heads & respective sales director through the S&OP forums, PRE-DMRS& DMRs.

The job also includes cross functional collaboration with sales, channel development, marketing, finance, CCL on maintaining forecast drivers (building blocks), assessing trends, evaluating risks and opportunities, and managing upside and downside scenarios.

The role is owning cluster replenishment & availability management which reflects into service as well as ensuring a balanced inventory/cash within each market maintaining a healthy business outlook.

This role will lead a team of associates and will facilitate the PRE-DMR & plays a crucial role in NALT DMR and MEA SMR.

Key Responsibilities

With specific focus on 4+ periods planning horizon key to the role is ensuring a balanced forecast that considers the statistical base, the history and all associated building blocks factoring in relevant input (e.g., promotional activity, distribution changes, marketing campaigns) for their portfolio. This requires the ability to create and analyse different scenarios against a defined set of metrics.
Owns the Consensus forecast for the Market taking onboard the historical inputs, and market trends as the major building block for their portfolio in periods for the full horizon to drive the supply plan
Leads the PRE-DMR meetings in the market providing the insights for the consensus forecast across the full horizon and owns the inputs of the cluster in NALT DMR
For this cluster, Navigating geopolitical challenges & taking crucial business decisions requires additional in depth understanding and leadership from this role.
Maintain forecast drivers for the portfolio, understands drivers of base sales trends (last year, previous years and YOY), upside and downside scenarios
Assess trends, risks and opportunities together with the Sales, Marketing and Finance teams
Incorporates approved upside and downside scenarios on top of the system generated forecast at appropriate level of hierarchy
Lead the full replenishment plan enabling the right stock cover taking into account the lead times and related risks.
Ensure market availability within target, escalate & take corrective actions when needed
Work on reaching service levels through the right supply and demand balance.
Escalate short term forecast issues (unplanned demand) to network planning team
Assess short term availability and market opportunities& escalate to network planning teams when intervention and support is needed.
Own demand and supply KPIS for his cluster.

Experience / Background

· BSc or BA in engineering, economics or business.

· >10 years of demand management experience for a global or multi-plant CPG/FMCG company

· >10 years of experience in Planning across different areas.

· E2E understanding of Supply Chain with detailed experience in Demand Planning, Supply Planning, S&OP, Inventory Management

Education and Professional

BSc or BA in supply chain management, or any other business or engineering related degree
Internships in relevant areas
10 years logistics, planning or procurement experience for a CPG or retail company
Fluency in English is a must

About the Company

Mars

Global confectionery, food, and petcare company

Mars makes confectionery, food, and petcare products and also operates pet health services through networks like Banfield, VCA, BluePearl, and Royal Canin. Its products are marketed under familiar brands such as M&M’s, Snickers, Milky Way, Skittles, Dove, Orbit, Pedigree, Royal Canin, Whiskas, and Cocoavia, sold globally to consumers and pet owners. The company differs from competitors by combining a broad, diversified portfolio with a global, family-owned structure guided by the Mars Principles (Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency, Freedom), which drives its operations and partnerships. Mars aims to help communities prosper and to grow its business while improving social and environmental outcomes, using its scale to support responsible practices across the world.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: Debt Financing
Total funding: $27B
Headquarters: McLean, VA
Founded: 1911

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