Head (m/f) of Demand Planning, Haar

As a world leading food company DANONE stands for international success. Around 104.000 employees work on all five continents in the four business areas Fresh Dairy Products, Early Life Nutrition, Waters and Advanced Medical Nutrition on one corporate mission: “Bringing health through food to as many people as possible.”

Your Mission

• Ensure the consistency & development in forecasting methodology and tools for the German demand volumes
• Long Term forecasting of all Business Units within the Cluster and GPS process animation
• Ensure that accurate forecast is available for the monthly GPS meetings
• Ensure that the forecasted figures are reviewed and validated by Marketing, Sales and Finance teams as defined in GPS process
• Responsibility to support sales forecasts valorization with the help of Finance team
• Animate the Demand Planning process on short/mid and long term horizons
• Ensure consistency and accuracy of forecast from period to period, track and explain changes
• Help identify risks and opportunities
• Coordinate demand plans, sales targets and budgets with production/ distribution planning
• Maintain system data on managed brands (model parameters, sku characteristics…)
• Develop Functional & Managerial skills of team members and set up their individual development plan
• Responsible to ensure accurate promotional volumes in the BluePlanner tool (promotion tool) together with Sales

Your Profile

• Master degree in business administration with a focus on SCM or logistic
• At least 5 years of relevant work experience within planning in a complex and fast moving industry
• Experienced in leading and developing a team
• Ability to persuade stakeholder
• High effective communicator
• Strong leadership and networking skills
• Excellent knowledge of the GPS process
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to anticipate
• High ambition to continuous improve processes
• Excellent SAP and MS Excel skills