Demand Planning Trainee

Job description

As Trainee Demand Planner your key responsibilities are:

 

·  Understands how sales trends, promotional activity and shipment patterns will affect demand and make appropriate adjustments to forecasts;
·  Runs analyses on historical data, cleans history from different activities (sales, marketing etc);
·  Updates 10+ monthly metrics by running various reports and updating Excel spreadsheets;
·  Interacts with Supply planning department to perform root cause analyses;
·  Distribute weekly reports to team members and highlighting issues that need to be addressed;
·  Maintains Demand planning masterdata (new product, new customer) and cooperates closely on this with Supply and Master Data teams;
·  Performs other job-related duties as requested by management;
·  Takes part in weekly/monthly meetings with different stakeholders (sales, marketing, supply planning etc.

We are looking for a Trainee Demand Planner with the following profile :

·  Strong analytical skills;
·  Great communicator and relationship builder;
·  Ability to work effectively with minimal supervision under tight deadlines;
·  Commitment to building high-quality solutions;
·  High level of attention to details;
·  Good team player;
·  Comfortable learning and working with a variety of tools (SAP IBP, QlikView,  Power BI, Reporting and ad-hoc data retrieval tools);
·  University degree;
·  Excellent Excel skills, knowledge of SAP IBP is an advantage;
·  English language, upper intermediate, both written and spoken.

At Danone we strive to have variety of benefits across our region in Central Eastern Europe and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do. Some of the benefits are

·  International work environment;
·  Hybrid and flexible working hours;
·  Competitive salary package and flexible benefits;
·  Medical subscription for you;
·  One free day to celebrate your birthday;
·  30 days to work from wherever you want;
·  Bonus on special events;
·  Bookster subscription;
·  Coffee, fruits and chocolate in the office;

And hey, want a snack? Feel free to grab a yoghurt in the fridge at the office – products available all day!