Demand Planner Specialist
vakansiya — 2025

Location: Baku
Department: Demand Planning
Subordinate: No

Inside of company: All departments

Outside of company: Suppliers

Requirements:

• Education: High Education (Economics)
• Experience: Minimum 1 year of relevant experience
• Language: Azeri, Russian, English (all fluent)
• Computer skills: Good computer literacy (MS Office)

Professional/Personal skills:

• Excellent problem solving and organization skills
• Self-motivated and flexible to work with negligible supervision.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Good presentation skills
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Tenacious work attitude.
• Should be able to work as a team member.
• Able to meet deadlines along with working under pressure.
• Should be able to handle varied tasks.
• Flexible to work anytime.
• Willing to travel on frequent basis.

Job Description:

• Prepare background information to support sales forecasting
• Develop statistical forecasts
• Prioritize the forecasts
• Work with the Sales and Marketing teams to integrate market intelligence into the forecasts
• Prepare and support the Forecast Review process
• Lead root-cause analysis into major forecast variances
• Lead initiatives to improve forecast accuracy
• Develop and monitor the rules for “consuming the forecasts” and accepting orders
• Work with the New Product Development team to forecast sales of new products
• Monitor the impact of promotions, competitor activity and other events on sales
• Monitor and report on significant variances between sales forecasts, budgets and business plans
• Coordinate with production planners in handling exceptions
• Ensure that the sales forecasting systems are used effectively
• Provide input to the development of inventory policies and parameters
• Develop Standard Operating Procedures for the sales forecasting processes

Deadline: 28.01.2022

Please indicate the name of the position  “Demand Planner Specialist” in the subject line of the application email.