Demand Planning Specialist
FrieslandCampina Professional & Trading is looking for a Demand Planning Specialist. Are you analytical, communicative and have a passion for continuous improvement with a strong commercial affinity? Do you like planning with a strong customer focus and are you able to act with speed and decisiveness? Are you excited to be part of a transformation journey into next generation planning and commercial partnership? Then we're looking for you!
What we ask
- MSc degree preferably in Supply Chain, Business Administration or related discipline (APICS or equivalent certification in case Master degree is not in SC Management);
- Minimum 4 years supply chain experience. FMCG preferred;
- Proven track record in (Demand) Planning and/or S&OP or other CSC discipline;
- Knowledge & experience with planning systems APO & OMP;
- Demonstrated capability of driving improvements, turning vision into action and delivering solutions that answer to compelling business needs and opportunities;
- Analytical, Accurate & Result driven; and comfortable in Power BI- and Excel;
- Strong drive towards customer service and operational excellence through optimized processes & WOW;
- Ability to influence, ability to build relationships cross-functionally with colleagues, management and customers to ensure business results are achieved;
- Experience in working in multi-functional groups and matrix organization;
- Proven Cultural Awareness in a global scope;
- Fluent in English.
What we offer
- Unique company culture of Dutch heritage and international presence
- We offer great work life balance, and competitive salary & benefits package
- Workweek of 38 hours, competitive pension scheme, holiday allowance of 8%, end year allowance 5%, bonus scheme, flexible working hours and the ability to work from home.
- Diverse training and mentoring programs to help you grow on your own professional journey
- Exceptional support of cross disciplinary movement within the company to broaden your knowledge and growth paths
- A friendly and informal working environment, yet professional team members as sparring partners
- Autonomy and trust to create longer term impact that helps bring better nutrition to the world
- Free cheese and milk at lunch in the central office, and barista coffee to help you go through your working days with a lot of joy
- FrieslandCampina has a ‘fietsplan’
Vacancy description
- Support the demand planning team in capability development to deliver next generation planning and reaching our forecast accuracy, statistical forecast- and write-off ambitions
- Identify opportunities supporting our DP next strategy and seek for solutions, also outside the box
- Strong collaboration with supply planning and other supply chain functions in the S&OP process, ensuring the demand is fulfilled at the required service and lowest possible inventory levels and minimized obsoletes
- Engage on our capability building journey across demand planning and our stakeholder field, related to processes, planning systematics, procedures and systems and drive sustainable improvement delivering optimized WOW
- Observe and evaluate bottlenecks and identify opportunities and actions in FC-PT global demand related (work) processes, planning systematics, procedures and/or systems, and ensure implementation of improvements
- Analyze reports and take corrective & preventive actions on KPI results (e.g. waste, out of stock, D&S costs, DIO, forecast accuracy/bias improvement)
- Set up action plans for KPI improvement and lead or participate in (cross-departmental) improvement teams
- Escalates critical issues to management team
- Executes prioritized topics for the deployment of standard way of working and utilizing standards (best practices) available
- Participates in cross-Customer SC improvement team and project setup to deliver multi-functional CI
- Supports team members in analysing and driving continuous improvement in day-to-day work
- Analyses reports, leads and participates in (cross-departmental) improvement teams to improve forecast accuracy, forecast bias, demand enrichment forecast (i.e. promotions), service level and waste and improves related operational processes
Team Details
See all colleagues on LinkedInFrieslandCampina Professional & Trading is a world-class, global leader in dairy and plant-based value-added ingredients and solutions targeted at professional customers such as bakeries, fast food and coffee chains, hotels, restaurants, catering companies as well as industrial food and beverages companies. In close cooperation with customers and through the exchange of in-depth market, ingredient and solution expertise, FrieslandCampina P&T helps customers to win in their markets. FrieslandCampina P&T is a global business with sales offices, dedicated ingredient product and application development and production facilities around the world.
For thousands of people every day, we are more than just a dairy company. To our farmers, our employees, the communities we serve, the businesses we work with and the people to whom we bring happiness, FrieslandCampina means something more. For them it's not just about what we do, but who we are.
We value talented people from any background who want to contribute to something bigger than themselves. We encourage all of our employees to make decisions that benefit our entire company. At FrieslandCampina we own our own career and act accordingly. We trust you to make a difference in your job and influence the bigger picture. Working at FrieslandCampina means you are contributing to a better world.
The role of Demand Specialist will report to the Global Demand Manager FC-Professional & Trading. The FC-P&T Global Demand planning team is a diverse and enthusiastic team based in Amersfoort.