Business Planner

**Objectives of the Position**
- Validate and challenge 36 months sales plan with country sales & marketing team, upload finalized sales plan into IBP system monthly.
- Act as contact person between regional supply chain team & local team on daily business steering topics.
- Manage P&L and analyze actual vs forecasted financial performance and recommend countermeasure to achieve country target
- Support Country Management in steering pricing and rebate schemes
- Manage and identify suitable action to reduce dysfunctional inventory (aging, slow mover, non-moving)

**Main Tasks**

**Demand & Distribution Planning**
- Validate and challenge 36 months sales plan with country sales & marketing team.
- Identify risks/downsides and opportunities/upsides to sales plan. Document and track risks and opportunities including likelihood and decision time and review on a monthly basis.
- Closely liaise with regional supply planning team to monitor delivery plan & ensure customer requests are met
- Communicate any sudden demand changes to the relevant regional supply planning team without delay
- Coordinate on the artwork for import FFP/AI between supply planning team and local regulatory/artwork manager
- Request for new product article and maintain article master data
- Manage local non conformances in line with the process established by region.

**Finance, Controlling, and Reporting**
- Upload final validated 36 months sales forecast to IBP monthly.
- Forecast and upload full year P&L quarterly.
- Monitor local COGS development
- Analyze actual vs forecasted financial performance, pro-actively highlight deviations from target to country management and recommend countermeasures.
- Collaborate with country sales and marketing team on annual budget planning and present to regional management.
- Support Country Management in steering pricing and rebate schemes (co-sign off with sales & marketing). Develop price/volume scenarios.
- Check rebate settlement calculation, monitor rebate accruals.
- Post journal accrual, deferral, reclass where necessary.
- Monitor AR overdue and DSO development.
- Ensure that business and accounting processes/policy are in total compliance with corporate policies and objectives.

**Local Inventory Management**
- Proactively identify suitable action in collaboration with sales & marketing team to reduce dysfunctional inventory (aging, slow mover, non-moving).
- Strictly follow the inventory guideline process for inventory write-off and stock taking procedures.
- Attend yearly stock take in country warehouses and tolling site.

**Requirements**:

- Education: Bachelor Degree in Finance / Accounting / Supply Chain or Logistics Management.
- Working Experience: Minimum 3 years of relevant experience. Understanding on crop protection business is an advantageous.
- Technical & Professional Knowledge:

- Strong knowledge of demand planning, inventory & distribution planning process
- SAP knowledge is beneficial.
- Good command in English.
- Good communication skills, team player.