Director Demand Planning (m/w/d)

 

Your areas of responsibilities:

 

• Lead the Demand Planning Team and drive the growth of the function globally
• Evaluate regularly the efficiency of business procedures according to organizational objectives and formulate and implement improvement processes and policies; oversee company support processes and organize them to enhance customer satisfaction and improve service level in demand planning to a first-class level
• Develop long-term operational strategies for DP, working closely with senior management to meet company objectives
• Take Ownership for design and generation of weekly and monthly statistical forecast reports and improve the planning accuracy
• Work closely with the Supply Planning/MSL team to identify and resolve changes in the forecast and their impact on the supply chain
• Take Ownership for continuous improvement of forecasting techniques, methods and approaches, standard operating procedures for demand planning processes and systems
• Identify and drive key demand planning & inventory processes, and manage stock issues
• Take Ownership for Service Level in assigned sales areas while maintaining a high stock turnrate
• Lead S&OP processes, meetings and decisions globally together with company senior management
• Take ownership and drive assigned projects and improvement initiatives

 

 

 

Your profile of qualification:

 

• Profound work experience and forecasting experience preferably within a FMCG industry
• Strong knowledge of demand planning process and strong analytical abilities
• Preferably SAP-experience
• Proficiency with MS Office required, intermediate MS Excel required, advanced Excel helpful; experience with a forecast modeling tool preferred; SAP experience helpful
• Demand planning solutions expertise
• Fluent English skills