Job purpose
At the market level, following HQ guidelines, she/he will support all Business Planning activities for both Consumer and Commercial product groups, with a primary focus on Consumer while ensuring business continuity and backup support for Commercial.
The role contributes to accurate sales forecasting, structured governance and data-driven decision-making by coordinating planning inputs, consolidating results and preparing performance materials for management reviews.
The local function is centrally driven and operates within a collaborative model that integrates local market insights and customer value. This role reports to the Sales Operations Manager and works closely with two Sales Directors with a functional reporting line to central Business Planning.

Responsibilities

Sales Planning / Landing Point Alignment / DP input

Prepare weekly Landing Point (LP) and Sales Planning in coordination with the LSCM team, ensuring customer delivery reliability and enabling performance management to support the achievement of company targets.




Ensure monthly input to Central Demand Planning team to secure demand signal quality, facilitating accurate supply planning. Ensure coordination and alignment across pricing strategy, marketing, logistics & supply chain (LSCM) and Go-To-Market (GTM) plans.

Gap Analysis & Action Planning

Identify gaps in performance and convert insights into concrete action plans to support sales target achievement together with Sales Directors.
Monitor sales performance, proactively identify deviations from plan and conduct root-cause analyses to initiate corrective actions

Streamlined Management Reporting

In alignment with HQ’s guidelines coordinate and support the preparation of Sales Performance Business Reviews, Executive Review meetings and handle ad-hoc requests from VPs, central teams or local Sales Directors.
Consolidate market performance results and trends, highlighting key drivers, risks & opportunities.
Ensure alignment of al

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