Specialist Business Planning Consumer Europe South Bardi

Specialist Business Planning Consumer Europe South
Bardi
Emilia Romagna, Bardi

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**Location: Italy/Greece

**Primary Purpose of the Position**:

**Lead short-midterm business planning process**:

Drive a 50/50 balanced country demand forecast creation by providing fact-based sales assumptions and risks and opportunities, whilst constructively challenging received market & channel inputs.

As the local ABP (Annual Business Plan) Process owner, provide the aggregated view of all moving elements and arguments for decision making at country and hub leadership level.

**Drive plan sufficiency**:

Providing pro-active guidance to country and hub leadership on accomplishment of short & midterm aligned business plans through Risks & Opportunities management (on aggregated and disaggregated level) and strategical/tactical analytics (industry/sales/shares triangulations) on all required levels of the aligned plan (channel, brand, season, segment, rim & new designs/white spot coverage).

Lead the Customer Level Planning process, ensuring that there is an aggregated view of the PBU MOR at Customer/Channel level supporting the ABP & AOP Processes.

**Drive process and tools efficiency**:

Using Continuous Improvement mindset, challenge existing planning processes, recommend leaner solutions, improve and automate essential activities whilst remaining focused on cross-functional and process excellence.

**Principle Duties & Responsibilities**:

**Assumption Based Planning (ABP)**:

- Coordinate, challenge, consolidate and communicate all relevant market-back data to relevant stakeholders.

Track, aggregate and communicate all the moving parts in the country FC for signoff in DSO/Sufficiency meetings, both assumptions in the plan, plus emerging risks & operations.

Coordinate the disaggregation, communication and implementation of aligned outcomes accurately into the Market Level FC before PBU MOR deadline.

- Drive continuous improvement of our bottom-up planning process.

Follow up on target achievement of assumptions.

**Sales Plan Sufficiency**:

- Connect to other departments (e. g. , if needed, Demand Planning, MRI, Supply Planning, Sales, Finance, Marketing, Pricing, Product Marketing) to optimize the local business plans, processes & tools to drive sales plan sufficiency.

- Install sufficiency operations and track sufficiency assumptions throughout the monthly planning cycles.

Bring any Gap to Target to the attention of the relevant stakeholders and work cross-functionally on solutions.

**Driving the country sales mix**:

Together with Product and Trade Marketing, drive the country mix (with dedicated focus on A-segment, Goodyear 19", Light Truck) and work closely with Sales Management to execute that plan using available tools (like assortment recommendation tool), with active follow-up on progress, tools usage, and further opportunities.

**To join our team, you will need**:

**Education**:

Bachelor's degree in business

- and/or economics-related sciences or comparable qualification.

**Experience**:

- 5 years business experience.

- Proven cross-functional experience with profound business experience in Sales, Demand Planning, Sales Operations, Supply Chain and/or MRI.

- Strong business acumen and in-depth understanding of the industry by market, channels and segments.

**Knowledge and Skills**:

**Technical

- Excellent skills in MS Office (especially Excel / VBA).

- Good skills in Data Warehouse Systems (EDW, SAP) preferred.

**Managerial

- Leadership direct/indirect for interaction with cross-functional teams (local, hub, region).

- High analytical competence and rational, cross-functional thinking.

- High self-organization and ability to cope with pressure.

**Communication

- Ability to communicate effectively and concisely.

- Ability to translate complex business data into key insights and actionable options.

**Languages

- English and Italian are required as mandatory.

- Greek would be appreciated.