Planning and Performance Manager

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Job Summary: A Planning and Performance Leader to manage planning processes, targets, performance monitoring, and indicator governance, ensuring cross-departmental integration. Key Highlights: 1. Lead planning and performance monitoring processes 2. Coordinate Sell-In and Sell-Out targets with various departments 3. Drive continuous process improvement FMC is an agricultural sciences company that advances agriculture through innovative and sustainable crop protection technologies. From our industry-leading discovery pipeline, through proprietary application systems, to modern biological products, we are passionate about delivering new solutions to growers worldwide. For over 130 years, we have been rooted in agriculture and innovation. Today’s FMC continues to earn the trust of growers and industry partners to maximize their productivity, profitability, and sustainability. We are an innovation-driven company committed to discovering new active ingredients, product formulations, and application technologies. **About the Role:** The Planning and Performance Manager is responsible for leading planning processes, target setting and deployment, performance monitoring, and indicator governance, ensuring integration across Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Supply. This role serves as the integrator of information and guardian of forecastability, consistency, and result quality. **Key Responsibilities** -------------------------------- * Drive continuous process improvement to enhance forecastability, consistency, and reliability of results. * Lead and develop the team. * Coordinate the annual Sell-In and Sell-Out target-setting process, aligning competitive landscape and strategic initiatives through direct interface with BI, Marketing, Sales, and Finance. * Coordinate the target deployment process down to the territory level, ensuring coherence and traceability. * Project FMC’s performance in long-term plans (LRP), connecting BI and MKT functions. * Define and monitor KPIs in dashboards for performance tracking across various stakeholders. * Monitor and project short-term sales execution, considering the impact of all commercial operations. * Establish recurring discussion forums and standardized communication materials (bulletins, presentations, dashboards), ensuring clarity, team engagement, and timely course correction. * Coordinate the consolidation, analysis, and governance of Sell-Out (POG), determining territory, channel, and customer performance. * Develop tools and promote connectivity across diverse data sources to enhance planning quality. **Requirements** -------------- * Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Engineering, or related fields. * Fluent English. * Advanced Excel proficiency; Power BI knowledge preferred. * Solid experience in planning, performance management, metrics, and results governance. * Experience interfacing with Finance, Supply, Marketing, BI, and HR departments. * Strong analytical capability and systemic business vision.