Demand Planner

As a Demand Planner you will provide a product based market forecast, to a targeted level of forecast accuracy, enabling accuracy of out-looking, customer service and inventory objectives to be achieved.

How you’ll do it

• Providing a product based forecast to drive the business, planning to ensure delivery of sales plans, customer services, cost and inventory.
• Building the sales forecast through the utilization of the planning tool. To build an accurate base forecast, and collaboration with sales and product management to add incremental promotional and new product introduction forecasts.
• Identifying opportunities to improve forecast accuracy KPIs, implement improvement plans and track results.
• Participate in the EMEA S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning) process.
• Communicating proactively to Supply Planning, Sales, Product Management, Finance, and other teams on significant changes in forecasted demand to ensure appropriate actions are taken to maintain business performance.
• Championing good Supply Chain planning by educating others on supply chain planning, visiting Amsterdam and regional sales offices as necessary.
• Contributing to improving the EMEA Supply Chain process and systems by identifying improvement opportunities working with local and global colleagues to deliver improvements.

• 3+ Years experience as a Demand Planner.
• Experience within the fast moving consumer goods market.
• You have a good understanding of demand planning techniques, processes and systems within a European business.
• You need to be excellent in prioritizing, time management and have organizational skills.
• You are assertive with excellent influencing skills – and have in particular experience in developing effective relationships with sales and product management teams.
• You are excellent with numerical analysis and are a proficient user in spreadsheet skills.

You will be able to demonstrate a track record of identifying process improvements, managing change and delivering quantifiable improvements in KPIs. Have experience of a dynamic, high SKU count consumer business and approach your work with a proactive and “hands-on” style. Excellent communication skills and the ability to maintain direction without direct supervision is essential to your success in this fast- paced business.

Our client has got big collaborative spaces for your big ideas, so bring an open mind and leave your suit in the closet. Thay all are committed to creating unique and rewarding consumer experiences. Everyone is interested in succeeding – for the team, for themselves and for the business. Cross-functionally and across the company, everyone has common goals and aspires to be their best.
You will learn something new or at least look at things differently every day. There are so many smart and creative people around that you’ll be motivated to pursue the ideal.
Team spirit is infectious. The company is an extremely open workplace, where communication is essential. Not every idea will be accepted, but you’ll be asked for your point of view. Innovation thrives on multiple and varied levels. At this company they challenge conventional wisdom and refuse to accept that something cannot be done.