- Maintain planning and forecasting process in-line with existing S&OP cycle, preparing and conducting meetings following the corporate planning cycle.

- Ensuring the balance between market demand, sales plan, and supply plan to improve sales forecast accuracy rate.

- Connecting interdepartmental information and data to drive informed business decisions (sales effectiveness analysis, risk for demand & supply imbalances, etc.), support data-driven approaches by providing clear data exchange between departments (Sales, Marketing, Finance). Development of automated reporting in Power BI

- Improving planning processes to enhance forecast accuracy and implementing forecast accuracy evaluation in the S&OP process.

-Deputy Planning Group Leader Responsibilities

- Preparing and leading monthly Demand Review Meetings - compile and analyze essential data for sales forecasting, including demand analysis, availability assessments, and risk evaluations. Coordinate cross-functional inputs to create an accurate and actionable consolidated sales forecast.

- Development and preparation of analytical reports, ensuring transparent and data-driven business decisions throughout the S&OP process.

- Performing IBP process on a monthly basis: forecast submissions, master data maintenance, forecasting and price update

- Tracking the Allocation process, communicating changes, and aligning substitutions with the Commercial Team.

- Seed availability tracking, communicating changes in availability, and coordinating seed distribution process to customers. Monitoring batch quality characteristics on stock and in delivery, informing Commercial Team & Customer Service to ensure proper distribution between CustomersParticipated in the improvement of seed availability calculation by implementing automated data processing using Power Query, resulting in an over 50% reduction in report generation time for deliveries and increased time for delivery schedule verification. As a result, we obtained more accurate data on seed availability, which positively impacted the precision of sales forecasts and provided opportunities to inform about the status of deliveries and seed quality indicators in advance.

- Preparing seasonal/monthly sales plans and Specifications for Customers (Distributors, AGHs, direct Customers) based on Demand level and Supply plan data and performing checks of its execution. As part of the planning team participated in the development of the Distributor's Portal (requirements gathering, logic development, and testing), resulting in improved responsiveness to demand changes, reduced communication with customer service, and real-time visibility of all changes in the plan for online clients.

• coordination and management of the department, distribution of tasks and monitoring their implementation
• training and adaptation of new employees
• gathering of requirements for researches, coordination of the timing and format of the report
• processing of large data set, creating reports and data visualization
  

• preparation of all necessary documentation for the conduct of the survey (questionnaire, sampling, the timing of data collection)
• coordination and management of the team - distribution of tasks and monitoring their implementation
• quality control of collected information
• analysis of research results, interpretation and preparation of reports

Participation in the development of software products (for input/output of survey results, and a database for storing and processing statistical data):

• compilation of documentation (description of requirements, specifications, and features of the software product)
• software testing
• training for employees on the use of software products

• preparation of reports and statistics for publication (developing formats and publication release dates)
• writing statistical news to advertise the publication
  

• monitoring, consolidation and analysis of the information from different sources
• maintenance of databases
• preparation of statistical reports