Senior planning Analyst

• Responsible for the foundations of the budget and reporting process.
• Liaise closely together & Build strong working relationships with different departments (Corporate Planning, Supply Planning, Customer Service…).
• Regularly report on progress of the scope of work (sales results, order booking, enquiry pipeline), both internally & towards HQ, in a structured and coherent manner.
• Take leading role in monthly Forecast meetings together with Supply Planning to take decision on purchase commitment to factories.
• Support internal departments like Logistics, Supply chain, SBU’s & HR on their specific requests regarding sales results and direction.
• Leading monthly sales meetings
• Monitor competitor activities in markets and develop ideas for increased competitiveness

CRM & Leads Management:
-Work together with Sales teams on sales enhancement actions such as new account development, construction projects data utilization, distributor Order forecast, sales campaigns, lost project analysis, backlog analysis, improving product allocations

Process Improvements & Training:
-On the basis of critical evaluation, make proposals for process design and improvements in CRM software that will lead to simplification, optimization and efficiency. (e.g Standard Discount scheme)

People Management:
-Coach and Manage SPL analysts and interns through regular SPL tasks .
-Manage sales planners, dotted line reporting on regular SPL tasks like sales & booking follow up, MSM preparation, Budget cycle preparation.