Demand Planner

Job Description
An exciting opportunity to use your expertise in statistics, forecasting and demand planning to help bring LEGO play and education experiences to more children across our newly established region (Romania, Moldova, Israel).

As our Demand Planner, you will be a trusted partner to the Operational and Commercial Teams. Having a role within the S&OP processes, providing valuable insight and analysis to support gap closing initiatives. The accuracy of your forecasts has a direct impact on supply chain efficiency and product availability. What an amazing opportunity, is not it?

Core Responsibilities

• You will support the facilitation of the various Demand Planning review meetings with Marketing and Customer Development/Sales teams
• You will be the guardian of the S&OP leadership behaviours
• Ensure forecasting assumptions are clearly understood and tracked
• Maintain productive working relationships with the cross functional team members
• Building upon a statistical forecast output you will deliver an accurate demand plan
• You will be measured on your ability to accurately forecast both Consumer Sales and Shipments to Customers
• Ensure demand plans accurately reflect known marketing, product launch timings and promotional activities both LEGO and customer funded
• Support sales and marketing to evaluate the likely impact of commercial investments
• Maintain the data bases required for the statistical engines to run

Play your part in our team succeeding
The role reports to Senior Customer Operations Manager but supports the broader business to evaluate the volume and value (revenue and profit) of the existing plans, enabling senior management to identify gaps to target and take corrective action. The output of their work is also used directly by supply chain to ensure the right products are manufactured at the time to maximise 'In Stock Availability' whilst avoiding the generation of waste. The demand planning role is "multilingual" as it is used to inform supply chain (volume) and the commercial planning processes (value).

Do You Have What It Takes

• Understanding of statistics and strong analytical skills
• Experience of working within a consumer packaged goods or FMCG environment (Demand Planning / Supply Planning experience is a big plus)
• An understanding of end-to-end demand planning and S&OP process
• Confident and engaging communication skills – able to communicate in a way that makes the complex simple
• Confident user of Excel (Pivot tables, Filters, Formulas…Macros / VBA would be amazing but not a requirement)
• Experience with visualization tools such as Power BI and Tableau
• Fluent spoken and written English and Romanian

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What's in it for you?
Here is what you can expect

Family Care Leave
- We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances
– All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing
- We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

Colleague Discount
– We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus
- We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace
- When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children's Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children's Rights.

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