Forecasting and S&OP Team Manager

The Role

An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees is looking for a Forecasting and S&OP Team Manager. You will be responsible for leading a team of forecast analysts and overseeing the end-to-end sales forecasting process. It involves facilitating cross-functional collaboration, ensuring alignment across key stakeholders, monitoring forecast accuracy, and providing strategic insights to senior leadership.

Principle Accountabilities

• Management of a forecast analyst team,

• Facilitate S&OP meeting and collaborate,

• Ensure sales forecasts are captured, challenged and aligned between the different stakeholders (mainly sales representatives, finance, insights, marketing,)

• Manage the reporting on the forecast accuracy and overall supply KPI under responsibilities,

• Continuous improvements of the forecast accuracy & S&OP process,

• Develop and present recommendations to senior management for strategic decision making.

Skills and Experience Required

• Strong analytical capabilities and in-depth understanding of business/financial interrelationships between marketing/sales strategies, pricing, volumes, and cost structure.

• Understanding of basic internal financial measures such as earnings and Cash flow.

• Clearly demonstrated excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

• Ability to work in a large, complex organization and on team mode,

• Experience evaluating the performance of the business and what levers should be pulled to drive performance

• Well-developed organization skills to manage multiple projects and priorities.

• Strong capacity of adaptation, curiosity, autonomy; proactive approach.

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at recruitment@impbrands.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all.  Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

As a matter of policy, Imperial Tobacco or its subsidiaries never requests or requires payment as part of any recruitment process.