Demand Planner

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Date: Apr 22, 2025

Location: Opava, CZ

Company: AkzoNobel

About AkzoNobel

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon – is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today – while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.

 

For more information please visit www.akzonobel.com 

 

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Demand Planner

About the Job

Temporary 3 year role. 

 

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

  • Join a growing multinational company.
  • Temporary 3 year project.
  • Professional and personal development in a dynamic environment. 

At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.

Requisition ID: 46241 

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