Demand Planner

INDUSTRY: MANUFACTURING

HR World Ltd, on behalf of our client, is looking for a highly skilled and detail-oriented Demand Planner to join their Supply Chain team. The role involves creating accurate forecasts, collaborating with sales, marketing, and production teams, and supporting the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process to align supply and demand effectively.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating a statistical forecast using the company’s selected planning tool, ensuring continuous improvement in forecast accuracy.
• Liaise with sales and marketing to collect business intelligence inputs on time for the monthly Demand Review Meeting.
• Support the Planning Manager during the Demand Review Meeting, where the unconstrained demand plan is finalized.
• Provide reports on month-to-month forecast accuracy and stability.
• Coordinate effectively with Production Planners to ensure availability of finished goods.
• Support the Industry Planning Manager in Sales and Operations Planning meetings by finding optimal solutions to conflicting priorities between Sales and Production.
• Keep all stakeholders informed on progress against agreed plans.
• Liaise with department managers across industry to ascertain actual inventories, constraints, and future goods flows, ensuring accurate and realistic planning outputs.
• Align and develop the S&OP Plan with Business Plan Process (BPP) objectives and sales forecast volumes.
• Expand the S&OP process to include tactical planning for at least quarterly periods.
• Support planning for new product introductions from launch until product retirement.
• Manage and plan minimum stock balances to maintain supplier lead times and stock holding policies to avoid stock outs.
• Reconcile Safety Stock policies for Make-to-Stock or Kanban items to avoid loss of sales.
• Ensure the MRP system operates in line with sales volumes and reorder points to prevent stock outs.
• Track adherence to production plans and monitor improvements.
• Clearly communicate any constraints affecting customer delivery dates.
• Establish and maintain a Master Data system and implement technological solutions to translate demand inputs into supply.
• Contribute to departmental and company planning and budgeting cycles, including the annual Business Plan Process (BPP).

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Production Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of general work experience in Supply Chain.
• Minimum 5 years in a similar demand planning role.
• Experience in manufacturing or consumer goods industries.
• Must be an end user of ERP systems, preferably SAP ERP.
• Exposure to planning tools such as SAP IBP, Kinaxis RapidResponse, or O9 Solutions is preferred.

Interested candidates may send their CVs to career@hrworld.co.tz before 23rd October 2025.

Only successful candidates will be contacted