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