Demand Planner SOP

Join our dynamic team as a Demand Planner S&OP and become a key player in ensuring the timely and optimal availability of Rituals products. This role offers a unique blend of analytical skills stakeholder management and providing an exciting opportunity to contribute to our commercial success. Rituals is also dedicated to a digital transformation roadmap and as demand planner you will be involved in this exciting ongoing transition as the company continues to implement new state of the art systems and processes.

You will report to the S&OP Manager and become part of the S&OP demand planning team within the Supply Chain department. The S&OP team is responsible for product forecasts of all lines of business (LOBs) and countries. The product scope involves current products new product introductions and promotional activities.

You are responsible to provide an accurate forecast for your product categories in collaboration with all LOBs (Retail Digital Wholesale and Travel). After validation and executive signoff all volumes are reflected into the S&OP sales plan resulting in a monthly rolling forecast. The S&OP forecast serves as input for the monthly supply planning process shop replenishment and financial budget.

As a Demand Planner S&OP you are endtoend process owner of the planning processes and constantly looking for ways how we can improve by working closely together with different stakeholders within Innovation Marketing and Supply Chain.

Key Responsibilities :

Collaborative stakeholder management : Work closely with departments such as Innovation Marketing Control and Supply Chain to gather essential business drivers track deadlines and validate inputs. Engage in crossfunctional collaboration to ensure alignment and effective communication across departments.

Strategic demand forecasting : Conduct comprehensive category forecast analyses across the Rituals product portfolio identifying focus areas forecast your own product portfolio and recommending actionable strategies to drive business growth.

Actionable insights and reporting : Utilize strong analytical skills to adjust the S&OP sales plan based on forecast vs. actuals incorporating all gathered business inputs and publishing results. Share Monthly S&OP Pack with all Lines of Business (LOBs) providing insightful explanations and taking proactive measures to address forecast accuracy deltas.

Address risks & opportunities : Highlight revenue forecast risks and opportunities by LOB product group or category contributing to informed decisionmaking processes. Contribute to executive demand reviews S&OP work sessions and Category meetings providing valuable insights and recommendations.

Support & collaboration : Together with the Senior Team Lead and other Demand Planners you will form a (virtual) S&OP category team. You will assist in creating monthly S&OP reports category analyses and presentations ensuring alignment with strategic objectives. Ensure that forecast accuracy results category trends and business inputs are effectively translated into forecast actions reflected in the demand planning tool Logility.

Supply Chain Projects : Next to your regular planning tasks you will be involved with wider projects that could involve cross department collaboration. Yorn role can differ per project.

Qualifications :

To thrive in this role youll need a unique mix of analytical strength digital understanding and peoplesavvy communication. Youre someone who enjoys turning complexity into clarity who feels at home in both data and stakeholder meetings and whos not afraid to take the lead in a fastpaced digitally driven environment.

Were looking for someone who brings the following to the table :

• Excellent communication skills and a natural ability to manage and align diverse stakeholders
• A strategic mindset with the ability to define and support a consumer service strategy in close collaboration with business and logistics teams
• At least 3 years of experience in Operational Planning Demand Planning or Supply Planning
• A solid understanding of (digital) fulfillment flows and the commercial dynamics behind them
• Familiarity with ERP systems and data management platforms
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint and ideally handson knowledge of SQL
• Ability to independently build dashboards and reports using tools like Power BI
• Fluency in business English; Dutch language skills are a plus

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Remote Work : Employment Type :

Fulltime

Key Skills

Forecasting,Microsoft Access,Math,SAP,Supply Chain Experience,Analysis Skills,SAP APO,SAP Supply Chain Management,Production Planning,SAP ERP,ERP Systems,MRP

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1