Demand Planner
Apply now »Date: Apr 23, 2025
Location: Barcelona, ES
Company: AkzoNobel
Zona Franca Barcelona
Demand Planner
About the Job
The role of the Demand Planner is to manage the forecasting process while working closely together with commercial teams to ensure customer requirements are accurately reflected in the forecast so that the correct business decisions are made.
- Deliver demand forecasts at multiple levels of aggregation to contribute to IBP process, give visibility of our plans to all stakeholders
- Accurately reflect customer plans in our forecasting tools
- Challenge & manage the assumptions used in the sales forecast to inform the correct business decisions and gain learnings to improve future performance
- Monitor performance to forecast and lead discussions to tackle the issues as they arise
- Understand the impact of changes in the forecast on the wider business and keep Supply chain and other relevant functions informed of any changes
- Manage, analyse and take learnings from abnormal customer demands to inform decision making with the S&OE process, whilst striving to meet Customer service requirements
- Gain Product and Customer expertise to understand better their demand patterns and respective actions to improve forecasting bias and accuracy
About You
- Educated to Degree level or equivalent.
- Experience in constructing and maintaining forecasts.
- Previous exposure to Supply Chain management.
- Sales experience desirable.
- Process driven to deliver incremental business efficiencies.
- System capability, e.g. SAP, OMP, BI and Power BI.
- Advanced Excel knowledge required.
We Offer
- Hybrid teleworking modality.
- Dining room benefits.
- Join a growing multinational company.
- Flexible remuneration.
- Free parking.
- Professional and personal development in a dynamic environment.
- Access to training platform.
- Paddle tennis and football court free to use on site.