Commercial Planning Manager Job Description
Commercial planning manager
provides finance, accounting and operations support to the market territory managing partner, service lines, and internal functions.
Commercial Planning Manager Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Manage business day 1-2 month-end financial close process activities
Coordinate consolidated reporting deliverables to the Card Services PRA team
Support financial analysis and metrics reporting for operations and client service teams
Manager of the marketing/media data planning framework
Ensure commercial strategies are locally relevant and supports the market’s overarching business objectives
Support the recommendation of pricing strategies based on insights drive system price alignment process across channels, customers, and regions
Help manager to constantly enhance the business performance through monitoring, tracking, qualified plan and good training mechanism for business
Create and keep current production plans for bulk drug substance, external fill/finish (clinical and commercial fills), and commercial packaging that result in meeting demand for
Manage the Raw Material Management process to ensure all required materials for in house manufacturing are available as needed based on the agreed manufacturing plan
Be the “Process owner” for the Sales and Operations Planning process
Commercial Planning Manager Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Commercial Planning Manager
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: APICS, PMI, PMP, CLTD, CSCP, CIRM, CPIM
Education for Commercial Planning Manager
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the commercial planning manager job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Business, Finance, MBA, Marketing, Engineering, Business/Administration, Accounting, Management, Education, Economics
Skills for Commercial Planning Manager
Desired skills for commercial planning manager include:
System to perform the role
Analytic techniques and methods
Business change processes
Finance and Accounting
Foreign languages would be but not essential
Methods and tools
Accounting and operations functions
Applicable state regulations and adult beverage market dynamics
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Both written and spoken
Desired experience for commercial planning manager includes:
Collaborate with appropriate functional areas to review, approve, and implement production and purchasing plans
Utilize ERP system as required in performance of responsibilities
Establish, maintain, and report on critical supply chain performance metrics
Provide external supply managers with the information needed for them to execute the plan
Drive development and implementation of applicable supply planning and scheduling systems and tools
Support the FP&A processes
Commercial Planning Manager Examples
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Commercial Planning Manager Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of commercial planning manager. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for commercial planning manager
- Ownership for the Monthly Integrated Business Planning (IBP) New Product Planning & Forecasting Process
- Development of winning commercial propositions for key brands using a detailed understanding of retailer strategies, market dynamics and category margin modelling
- Identify what is required to achieve sustainable support from our customers and lead the organisation to deliver against it
- Run the monthly close process and associated reporting
- Present results to Corporate Planning
- Develop the Annual Plan and Long Range Plan, in collaboration with business partners and finance colleagues
- Potential to lead an analyst
- Prepare internal meetings
- Assist in gathering, analyzing, and maintaining Commercial Brand Team budgets and quarterly reforecasts
- Assist in analyzing quarterly budget to actual variance reports by Brand and cost center
Qualifications for commercial planning manager
- Must be able to exercise proper judgment related to business decisions
- Ability to function effectively in a cross-functional team environment
- Advanced PC software skills, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and/or equivalents
- Ability to perform effective interpretation and evaluation of data
- Lead the System behind Market Execution development
- Capability to overcome resistance within bottler system towards investment and capability development
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Commercial Planning Manager Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a commercial planning manager. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for commercial planning manager
- Work closely with external collaborators for regular data exchanges and preparation of joint presentations
- Prepare financial analysis in support of ad hoc requests and various special projects
- Work closely with internal finance colleagues for corporate needs and deliverables associated with Commercial data
- Manage internal financial systems, coordinating quarterly reforecast processes and ensuring data integrity
- Identify process improvements and areas to increase support for both Brand Team s cost centers
- Leads commercial input into NPD launches using a detailed understanding of retailer strategies and market dynamics to shape the go to market strategy, pack strategy, price, margin, launch plan
- Delivers CD toolkit (promotional strategy, MRRP, launch plan etc) for all company initiatives and works with CD team to ensure exceptional execution of plans
- Champions delivery of targets associated with key initiatives
- Evaluate the financial performance of the businesses
- Develop in-depth analyses by manipulating, aggregating and analyzing data to identify revenue opportunities, cost drivers, and key levers to improve business performance ROI, benchmarking of expenses, trend analysis
Qualifications for commercial planning manager
- Able to demonstrate success in developing & leading team
- Ability to break down ideas into understandable and actionable messages
- Ability to work under time constraints to meet aggressive deadlines
- Strong working knowledge of excel, powerpoint, and TM1
- Minimum of 6-7 years of "progressive" industry/relevant professional experience
- Basic understanding of Commercialization of products in Biotech/Pharma industry
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Commercial Planning Manager Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of commercial planning manager. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for commercial planning manager
- Demonstrates theoretical/financial and cross-functional understanding in financial problem solving
- Demonstrates business awareness with a solid understanding of corporate strategy and operations
- Interacts and collaborates effectively within workgroup and area of expertise
- Gets point across clearly, with straightforward language, both verbally and in writing
- Plans, prioritizes and reports status on tasks
- Monitors process effectiveness and efficiency against goals and objectives, taking corrective action as necessary
- Understands strategic priorities developed by upper management
- Maintain, and communicate updates to annual, seasonal, and monthly commercial plans for the Outlet channel
- Use all available tools to mine for relevant historical and forecast information to inform the commercial plan
- Maintain promotion calendars and ensure cross-functional team is updated and informed as the plans and business evolve
Qualifications for commercial planning manager
- Experience with Oracle platform (Hyperion) in an administrative capacity
- Extensive technical expertise in finance, budgeting, and forecasting
- Strong attention to detail, with the ability to understand the micro and macro views of the Commercial organization and its finances
- Proactive and analytical thinker with the ability to think outside the box and be adept at identifying areas for process improvement
- Ability to analyze Commercial financial data and prepare management reports
- Required to produce accurate and timely financial budgets, forecasts, actuals, and variance analyses under tight deadlines
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Commercial Planning Manager Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a commercial planning manager. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for commercial planning manager
- Partner with Director to ideate new and compelling promotions that will drive traffic and achieve key seasonal metrics
- Drive Operational Improvement through systems and process enhancements
- Work closely with the Merchandise planning teams ensuring new systems and requirements meet the business requirements
- Manage business change and training associated with a successful implementation of new systems and business processes for the Commercial team
- Facilitate cross functional workshops
- Conduct and sign off UAT activities
- Manage key stakeholders across various business functions
- Direct the activity of a Development analyst
- To be educated to degree level or similar
- Experience of working within a Merchandising / Buying / Supply chain function
Qualifications for commercial planning manager
- Thorough understanding and mastery of basic marketing principles and product development process
- Exceptional ability to execute and influence the direction of a product/technology vision and roadmap
- 8+ years of finance experience, with 4+ years leading organizations through Forecasting, Annual & Strategic planning cycles
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams and organisation through change management
- Hyperion, Tableau, Essbass, SAP system experience
- Prior financial accounting experience desirable
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Commercial Planning Manager Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking for a commercial planning manager. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for commercial planning manager
- Good analytical and numerical skills with the ability to translate into business impact
- NAM CCC best practice owner for Primary Technical Support
- Sales and Lead generation
- Technical leadership development
- University Recruiting
- Monthly Performance Reviews
- To facilitate the annual business planning with sales team both online and offline
- Be responsible for the demand planning and sales forecasting
- To manage sales process, sales policy, credit policy and overdue
- Supply and Inventory planning and control
Qualifications for commercial planning manager
- Scientific or business academic degree
- Solid professional experience, ideally from consulting industry combined with 3-5 years of experience on quantitative/process orientated settings
- First experience in pharmaceutical (generic) industry is of advantage
- Commercially driven, having SFE experience is a plus
- Strategic thinking, strong analytical skills and an innovative mind-set are required
- Collaborative team player, ideally first experience in operating in a complex matrix organization