Professional Hair Market Planner

Function: Supply Chain- Location: MEX, MX- Work Arrangement: Hybrid**Position Title**: _Market Planner_**Location**: CDMX**Reports to**: Mexico DC and Commercial Supply Chain Director**ABOUT THE WELLA COMPANY**Together, **WE** enable individuals to look, feel, and be their true selves.Wella Company is one of the world’s leading beauty companies, comprised of a family of iconic brands such as Wella Professionals, Clairol, OPI, Nioxin and ghd. With 6,000 employees globally, presence in over 100 countries, Wella Company and its brands enable consumers to look, feel, and be their true selves. As innovators in the hair and nail industry, Wella Company empowers its people to delight consumers, inspire beauty professionals, engage communities, and deliver sustainable growth to its stakeholders.**THE ROLE**Market Planner is responsible to carry out sales planning and inventory management toensure the level of service to Mexico business in the most important category Retail Hair.This role is responsible for managing the information flow that supports the forecast, by SKU, bymonth, for product categories and different brands. Also develops statistical forecasts andintegrates various business elements/drivers and market intelligence shared by the commercialteam, Marketing, and CPFR Teams.**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**- Ensure forecast accuracy and a high level of service, with low inventory and avoid E&O(excess and obsolete) to meet company KPIs.- Must prepare the statistical forecast and lead the demand review process, working as ateam and cross-functionally with Marketing, Finance, and Commercial areas, tounderstand and deliver customer needs, following demand trends and seasonalvariations in alignment with the business unit's strategy.- Coordinate with Sales and Marketing to discuss planned product promotions andinitiatives to improve forecast accuracy and drive excellent customer execution.- Responsible for preparing and leading several steps of the S&OP monthly meetings,supporting the business evolution, and being responsible for the agreed deliveries.- Implement a monitoring mechanism as well as create the visibility of status, gaps, andperformance results to the Mexico leadership team with an end-to-end approach tomonitor and optimize performance for the company.- Must update related reports and KPIs and lead the root cause analysis process and actionplans to meet the goals.- Support large strategic initiatives including go-to-market change, e-comm, and supplynetwork design changes.- Understand market dynamics and latest marketing and supply plans (promotions,cannibalization, distribution changes, supply constraints etc) and make value-addedmodifications to system forecast.- Weekly demand control: collaborate with market demand planner and category supplyplanning; propose changes to the system forecast and execute changes.- Represent demand planning in Commercial (Brand) meetings and further enable a Brandlevel of accuracy results.- Prioritize key master data items to support current and future business plans. Maintainmaster data directly in the system.- Lead the customization process for promo packs with the external copackers to ensureon-time delivery and support the strategic commercial activities.- Support the production planning of a small portfolio with a TPM.**QUALIFICATIONS**- 2+ years of Demand Planning or Supply Planning experience- 2+ years working with multifunctional teams.- Advanced English.- Must possess a relevant university degree.- Experience in the Supply Chain area with experience within S&OP and demand planningor other related planning areas.- Knowledge of ERP and Demand Planning systems, such as JDA and SAP.- Advanced Excel domain is required.- Analytical abilities to deliver comprehensive analytical reports, problem-solving, havinga logical and structured mindset, and being organized, with special attention to details.- Ability to integrate information from multiple sources and drive alignment in a decisionprocess. Owning the area's goals and delivering results.- Ability to multitask and solve problems quickly, but also have analytical depth when thesituation calls for it. Be an independent thinker who can identify unique solutions andexecute them.- Strong communication skills to get agreements with different areas.- Presentation and negotiation skills are extremely important.- Must be capable to deal with stressful conversations with the Top Management.- Must deliver against commitment with challenging lead times.- Data-driven discussion, Decisive, proactive, assertive.- Strong cross-functional collaboration.- Ability to coach and drive results through others.- Operates with discipline and time management.- Ability to collaborate horizontally and vertically within the organization.- Ability to drive change in difficult circumstances.- Independent thinker who can identify unique solutions a