Demand Planning Manager

Job content

This person will be working closely with the CHEP Pallecon (First Mile Solutions/ FMS) commercial and asset productivity teams and primarily be responsible for developing forecasts and scenarios for customer demand, in terms of issues and sales revenue, and returns (collections) for all products within the Pallecon Europe portfolio. The Demand Planning Manager will play a central role in the Integrated Business Planning process, ensuring the team have the right information and analysis to make clear, fast, and data-driven decisions. The Demand Planning Manager will be sole point of contact for all issues and questions relating to demand for Pallecon Europe.

Your mission

• Collaborate with commercial, marketing, customer solutions, finance, asset productivity, customer service and planning & execution teams to understand demand drivers in our customer base and markets
• Evaluate and incorporate multiple data sources and analytical tools, including market and competitor intelligence, customer insight, historical sales data, strategic plans and market/segment analyses, serial data, received customer orders, customer-derived forecasts, customer and end receiver production and sales data
• Support and challenge sales teams in translating pipeline into forecasted customer wins and losses, help identify opportunities to improve commercial plans; develop processes to reduce workload around forecasting for sales teams.
• Generate demand and collection forecasts for both S&OE (0-3 months execution) and Integrated Business planning (4-35 months planning horizon), meeting agreed requirements and operating guidelines for these processes.
• Ensure the assumptions behind the forecast are understood and well-documented and timely communications of the forecast and changes to the forecast on an on-going basis to stakeholders in sales, asset productivity, finance, and supply chain.
• Develop scenarios for alternative courses of action for decision making purposes, in support of strategic objectives and to challenge business plans.
• Facilitate the monthly IBP Demand Review meetings (including agreeing the agenda and key decisions, driving actions resulting) and play a key role in driving alignment between demand and supply, and strategic and financial objectives, at the Integrated Business
• Improve forecast quality over time by reviewing outcomes against results, testing assumptions and reliability of different data sources, improving data quality and developing the accuracy of statistical models.

Your Experience

• Good Forecasting/Demand Planning in a commercial environment in B2B businesses, working cross-functionally, proactively and independently
• FMCG background is advantageous
• Experience with Stakeholder management
• Project management experience is advantageous

Your Skills and Knowledge

• Strong quantitative and analytical skills
• Understanding of statistics / statistical based demand planning
• Able to synthesize complex data and viewpoints into clear insight
• Self-directive, proactive and focused on continuous improvement
• Ability to bring people together around a common objective, collaboratively
• Able to formulate and facilitate decisions with supporting analysis effectively
• Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills

What we offer

• Bonus opportunity based on company & individual performance, up to 15%
• Possibility to make the end-of-year bonus more flexible within a Flex Income Plan where you can choose from benefits such as lease of a bicycle, purchase of multimedia, purchase of extra vacation days
• Net representation allowance of 160,42€/month
• Net home office allowance of 65€/month
• A mobile phone + subscription + laptop
• A company car in accordance with the car policy with a European fuel card (temporary car will be provided at the start)
• A working week of 40 hours.
• 32 days of leave, of which 20 days of annual leave (could be prorated depending on time worked in Y-1) and 1 ADV day per month worked (or 12 ADV days for a full year).
• A hospitalization insurance for you and your family with an additional ambulant plan with DKV Insurance
• Cost of hospital insurance is carried by CHEP for you and your family members.
• Cost for ambulant plan of employee is carried by CHEP (with the option to add family members at cost of employee)
• A group insurance, with employer and personal contribution per month, based on annual Salary
• Eco-vouchers – 250€/year when worked full time during reference period