**POSITION SNAPSHOT** Location: Kuwait Company: Nestlé **POSITION SUMMARY** Leading bottom-up consensus demand plans in Country through an efficient alignment across stakeholders, while ensuring supply by providing visibility and coordinating with different functions for onetime availability **A day in the life of...** + Leading Pre-Alignment meeting in Country (depending on the cluster organizational structure) through an efficient alignment across stakeholders by capturing, prioritizing, and analyzing input from Generating Demand on events; customer, consumer & competitor information; other external / internal trends and influences, that impact planning + Ensuring that Sellout/IMS data is used (wherever applicable) in building the bottom-up consensus demand plan with commercial team, and highlighting risk (if any) of exceeding trade coverage policy through cluster MBPC + Building bottom-up Risks & Opportunities through an efficient pre-alignment meeting, ensuring the flow of data into cluster MBPC for decision making that will help in driving optimum levels of supply accounting for potential risks & opportunities + Support automation roadmap and drive focus in MBPC by adopting AI tools outcome (providing that it gives similar or better accuracy for tail end SKUs) + Ensuring supply by coordinating with different functions (clearance team, category supply planners, ...etc.), while providing visibility to commercial team for on time availability. + Coordinating with local A&P team to ensure on time execution and availability of promo stocks in line with promo planning SO **What will make you successful…** + 2+ years of relevant operational experience at market / business level, in at least one of the following areas: - Demand Planning - Supply Planning - Customer Service & Logistics - Procurement - Statistical Analysis + If not holding a commercial role before joining Demand Planning, a mission to a sales related function is strongly recommended + Advanced in using Microsoft Office – (Excell) + Very good to Fluent English