Lead - Demand Planner

What you’ll do:

This role, reporting directly to the Demand Manager ES EMEA, will be responsible for managing a network Demand Plan across all country sales organisations in the region. Sitting within the central Demand Planning team, this role will work closely with PLMs, Sales and the rest of the end-to-end planning network to create an accurate demand plan within a 3-24 month time horizon at product group and SKU level.

The role requires management of the demand planning process for the assigned network (product lines), geography, and product portfolio, planning for short, medium and long term requirements.

'Demand Planner -

• Preparation of a robust mid to long term (18-24M) demand plan each month consisting of a statistical baseline forecast, reviewed and qualitatively adjusted, enhanced with market intelligence from the commercial teams and approved by the relevant sales leadership.
• Analysis of historical trends to generate forecasts in each monthly cycle. Collect and review sales forecasts on a regular basis, identifying trends on fast & slow-moving products. Maintain seasonality trends and impact of exceptional market changes: Promotional activity, national/international events.
• Presenting demand plan outputs in the relevant Network and SIOP team Reviews
• Manage and Monitor Demand Planning KPIs at network level, including but not limited to Forecast Accuracy, Bias and Stability.
• Integrate and develop robust scenario planning into network and zone demand reviews, incorporating risk and opportunties and ensuring the demand plans presented are based on live information.
• Develop and manage a standardised approach to root cause analysis of top errors across the network, ensure subsequent forecast corrections are documented and validated appropiately.
• Actively develop the relationships with country/zone commercial and financial teams to build market knowledge over the 12, 18 and 24 months planning horizon. Ensure communication of volume and portfolio requirements are effectively communicated to the Supply Planning team

Qualifications:

• Bachelors/Masters Degree
• 10-15 years in relevant role

Skills:

• Hands on experience in SCM, SIOP, ERP systems, Demand Planning, Analytics, BI
• Change management, thought leadership, ability to work in matrix, results oriented, process minded, customer orientated, coaching, influencer, strong communication skills.