Demand Planner

ALTEN DELIVERY CENTER MOROCCO, a subsidiary of the global leader in engineering and technology consulting established in 2008 and operating in Fez, Rabat, Tetouan, and Casablanca, currently boasts more than 2,300 consultants and aims for an excellence center of 3,100 ALTEN consultants by the end of 2024. With over 90 recruitments per month, ALTEN Morocco is now a major player in the professional integration of engineers. We support our clients, industry leaders, in their development strategies in the automotive, rail, IT, R&D, and Telecom & Media sectors.

To join ALTEN MOROCCO means to benefit from:

• Diversified career paths with career opportunities, internal, sectoral, geographic, and business mobility.
• Certifying and diploma training programs.
• Regular events to combine well-being and performance.

We are actively looking for a Demand Planner (M/F) in Rabat/Tetouan to take on the following responsibilities :

Product Guidelines and Product Evolution:

• Develop product guidelines to drive volume submissions, highlighting phase-in and phase-out plans, and interact with:
  • Product Planning/Engineering: Proactively participate in integrated meetings, support the supply chain perspective regarding phase-in/out, pre-series, and launch management.
  • Product Codification: Define product codification requirements and timing, and ensure related readiness.
• Update new product launch plan information for sales countries (SOP / ETA Compound).
• Share and validate guidelines with Regional Brands (commercial perspective).
• Distribute product guidelines to worldwide countries and regional supply chains.
• Manage version locking in RR.

Monthly Demand Analysis:

• Analyze the monthly demand submitted by sales countries by region, country, channels, and budget family, identifying any gaps.
• Verify volume consistency with launch plans, phase-out plans, mix take rates, landing limits, special commercial needs, CO2, and NRM priorities.
• Examine option/color mix and order submission trends to identify constrained features and order delays, initiating discussions with brands to define commercial countermeasures or conduct investigations with suppliers (as needed for supply).

Production Demand:

• Support the definition of production volume requests per carline, engine, make constraints, and month, based on demand analysis, sales forecasts, stock targets, CO2, launch plans, and specific needs.
• Include in the production demand the volumes for Phase In and Phase Out (ramp-up), pre-launches, and press cars.
• Assist in validating EE production demand with brand leaders at the carline/energy level.

Allocation:

• Develop volume allocation proposals per month/country based on stock norms, order portfolio, ATP, CO2 targets, launches, commercial needs, and/or other supply chain priorities.
• Validate the country allocation proposals with EE brands and regional supply chains, and make adjustments as necessary.
• Implement the allocation data in the planning tool (RR).

Forecast Generation/Maintenance:

• Define version volumes and option/color mix in RR, considering grid take rates or actuals, and address gaps based on industrial constraints or CO2 targets.
• Verify the consistency of forecast orders generated by FOM with the mix submitted in RR and manage deviations.
• Review the scheduling horizon (6/12 months) to ensure coverage of orders (real/forecast).
• Adjust forecast orders to overcome potential constraints or generate new forecasts to meet the plan (if needed).
• Generate 24-month forecasts, uploading monthly volumes according to LTP/supply requests for the horizon not covered in the scheduling horizon.

Orders Management:

• Escalate coverage gaps for real orders to countries and brands by activating the Missing Orders Management procedure.
• Communicate order priorities to order schedulers to support optimization across various targets (e.g., landing, wholesale, sales channels, etc.).
• Monitor the order production flow and communicate priorities in case of deviations from the plan due to industrial crises (e.g., launch follow-up, FCO management, etc.).
• Inform NSC countries of production lead times per model and constrained configurations.

The Demand Planner possesses deep expertise in supply chain processes and a strong understanding of various external disciplines such as sales processes and performance, product evolution and engineering milestones, and manufacturing capabilities and constraints. This cross-disciplinary knowledge enables the application of diverse approaches to tasks that require a situational decision-making approach.

Key Enablers for Effective Demand Planning:

Proactive and decisive
Knowledgeable in cross-process and cross-system interactions
Awareness of product and business dynamics
Effective communication across different hierarchical levels (e.g., Regional Brand Managers, Carflow, Capacity Managers, Codification Specialists)
Extensive network

The ideal candidate should have a Master's degree or an engineering degree (BSc +5) in industrial engineering and logistics, along with 1 to 5 years of experience in a similar position, preferably in the automotive sector.