Junior Demand Planner

Job description

Henkel Beauty Care holds leading market positions worldwide and its brand-name product business is continuously expanding. In this fastmoving sector, success depends on constant innovation and high-quality products. Are you ready to work in a challenging, but also glamorous and dynamic environment? If you share a passion for hair and beauty, this is the place to start your career.

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Junior Demand Planner supporting the Beauty Care Professional business in delivering market leading products to the Salon and Beauty Wholesale industries. The key purpose of this role is to assist in generating an accurate and robust demand plan to enable the business to meet its targets whilst hitting core Supply Chain metrics and efficiency. This will be achieved by helping to build excellent cross functional relationships with Sales, Marketing, Supply, Finance and NPI teams combined with an analytical mindset, excellent understanding of statistical forecasting models and an ability to influence.

The key challenges will include:
· Assist with the Demand Planning process and the local Sales and Operation planning process for the assigned portfolio
· Contribute in New Product Introduction process and monthly Demand Alignment Meetings
· Work closely with sales and marketing teams to gather market knowledge and improve forecast accuracy
· Manage the ad hoc order process to ensure abnormal demand does not create out of stock risk
· Communicate to the business any risk of out of stock and ensure all relevant parties have timely and accurate availability information
· Assist with continuously improving forecasts techniques and statistical modelling

Desired profile

Qualifications :

Qualifications, experience & qualities required:
·  Educated to degree level
·  Minimum 1-2 years' experience within Customer Service or Supply Chain planning
·  Experience of SAP APO DP & statistical models is an advantage
·  Analytical mind-set and strong numerical skills
·  Attention to detail and results oriented
·  Excellent communication – internal & external; written, verbal & presentation
·  Strong in MS Office – particularly Excel and PowerPoint
·  Initiative & Proactive in problem solving

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