Reporting to Regional Operations Manager, the Planning & Operations Specialist is responsible for ensuring the right product is available at the right place and at the right time to support Red Bull's commercial objectives. Lead demand, supply, inventory, and replenishment planning processes to optimize service levels, working capital, and supply chain performance across the region. Drive the execution and continuous improvement of Red Bull S&OP process, providing visibility, transparency, and actionable insights to support business decision-making. Collaborate closely with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Customer Service, Distribution Partners, and the international planning teams to ensure medium and long term operational viability. Manage planning risks and opportunities to collaborate in the creation of a resilient Supply Chain. This professional is also responsible for leading the product innovation process from Ops perspective, to ensure on time launches and manage the regional product portfolio to keep a healthy and competitive structure. Bring all these responsibilities together with the use of innovation, advanced data management and the best attitude to support and influence stakeholders.

DEMAND PLANNING

• Responsible for analyzing the historical sales data, trends, base growth, distribution, market share and create/analyze a statistical forecast and determine the Operations Demand Plan in order to challenge/align with the Sales Demand Plan.
• Collaborate with Sales to understand the past performance of sales, drive root cause analyzes to understand error in prior periods and highlight inconsistencies the latest. Challenge the latest sales demand plan, to understand underlying assumptions and compare them with the Operations Demand Plan.
• In collaboration with Sales, Finance and Operations, align on the consensus Demand Plan during the monthly S&OP Process, update/fill out/adjust the Demand Plan in the planning tools in accordance with the consensus and make sure of the quality and consistency of the information.
• Create a robust planning function to support continuous improvement for the Business, identifying risks and opportunities to the operating plan and financial framework, and delivering innovation projects for digitalization and efficiency.
• Reporting and support the achievement of forecast accuracy targets.
• Support local teams on the demand plan construction for new and phasing out products.

PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

• Provide insights to the OPS Manager to conduct fact-based portfolio management and to implement a yearly SKU portfolio review cycle based on complexity and costs matrix.
• Lead NPD (new product development) process from Ops perspective to assure launches in accordance to the calendars, proper phase in and outs of products, required system creations and document management through all the launch process.
• Maintain and ensure accuracy of Material Master Data in all planning tools, and the transitions of the new and phasing out SKUs.

S&OP PROCESS

• Responsible for leading the monthly Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process, improving the service level to customers through CANS and VISIBILITY ITEMS availability, proper inventory level and consequently, avoiding disruptions and providing the right visibility to stakeholders.
• Based upon the consensus Demand Plan, generate, share and upload to official tools the monthly local Supply Plan as input for the Global S&OP Process.
• Implement and drive S&OP Process with our main Distribution Partners to ensure the right supply of products.

SUPPLY PLANNING

• Ensure Inventory consistency and competitive inventory levels in our Distribution Partners for an accurate planning process.
• Manage and control free goods and goods destroyed plans as part of the Supply Planning process.
• Manage Scenario Planning and provide the right visibility and recommendations for Operations Manager and Local stakeholders to ensure product availability.
• Follow up with all responsible local teams to ensure Distribution Partners order placement for the right supply of products.
• Establish and manage inventory levels, perform the DOH control, avoid overstocks, out of stocks and ensure a healthy age product. Alert to the Operations Manager in case of risks in inventory management and provide plan to reduce risks.
• Ensures timely and effective distribution of finished goods across Red Bull’s international network supported by Customer Service team, in order to fulfill DP orders in accordance with the supply requirements.
• Lead solutions findings and execution of demand and supply imbalances.
• Ensure visibility for stakeholders about supply availability and disruption risks to make timely decisions.

• Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, Supply Chain, Business Administration or related field.
• Demonstrated 3 plus years of experience working in areas of Demand & Supply Planning and Sales forecasting, knowledge of the Import process will be a plus.
• Comprehensive knowledge of retail accounts operations, forecasting technology, systems, market research data and supply chain management.
• Strong capabilities in data management in excel (mandatory) and other data management tools Power BI, Power tools, SQL, Phyton, AI assisted data management (preferably)
• Excellent communication skills, including presenting and ability to develop relationships with other areas of the business particularly the Sales, Finance and Marketing teams.
• Proven ability to conduct complex, quantitative and statistical analyses complimented with qualitative inputs from multiple sources to draw conclusions and make recommendations.
• Strong leadership skills, can motivate and lead teams
• Advanced MS Office skills, specially Excel. Preferably knowledge and experience in SAP – ERP & Planning tools.
• Fluent English skills.