Project Manager: Demand Planning (m/w/d), temporary contract 12 months
Are you looking for a challenging Supply Chain role in the very heart of the organization, right in between commercial & factories? This could be your chance! We are looking for a demand planner within Consumer Dairy Germany.
As a demand planner you create, monitor, enrich, and improve the demand plan (0-18 months) in collaboration with commercial teams (e.g., sales and marketing), in alignment with finance and supply chain. Your primary responsibility is the baseline forecast and on top of that challenging sales concerning promo forecasting. You play a vital role in assuring the best service of our top dairy brands towards our customers, via doing a job with much variation (balancing the analytics with the stakeholder management).
What we ask
- Completed studies with a focus on logistics / Supply Chain Management or comparable qualifications
- Proven experience working of at least 2-3 years, preferably in an FMCG, Supply Chain, Logistics or Transportation Planning.
- Pro-active attitude
- Strong analytical skills
- You are customer-focused and can act with speed and decisiveness to achieve the best results
- You take responsibility for your work and are continuously looking for new opportunities to make a change
- Good communicator; dealing with time pressure and able to frequently reset priorities due to a changed environment
- Knowledge of SAP, MicroStrategy & MS Office, and experience with planning software and or dashboarding software is a plus
- Fluent in English
What we offer
- You will join an informal and driven Customer Supply Chain team that besides working on the content also frequently engages in team building and fun activities
- A challenging role in the very heart of the organization; in between our commercial organization & the functions, balancing data analysis & stakeholder management
- Your salary is based on the weighting of your job, your experience and your training
- FrieslandCampina does not however only compensate its employees with monetary rewards, we also consider it important for our people to continue to grow. After all, your development is not only good for your career, our products also benefit from it. That's why we invest in relevant training courses in your particular discipline.
Vacancy description
You are a key-user in a full time multi-disciplinary project team taking care of the implementation of a new demand forecasting system in Germany
The project runs for 12 months from start to full implementation
You become the local expert of the new system
You are part of a central project team, being the linking pin to the CSC team in Germany
You drive the system change and implementation road map with all local stakeholders, such as Demand planners and Commercial
As such you occasionally travel for physical meetings with the project team, besides that you are based in our Dusseldorf office
Team Details
See all colleagues on LinkedInYou will join the demand planning team of Germany (4 FTE & 1 Customer Supply Chain lead). This team is a part of the Customer Supply Chain organization. As the name says; we are Customer focused, supported by a mirrored organization that is in close daily collaboration with the commercial teams. The mindset of the team is eager to be and stay the best Dairy supplier towards retail in all its aspects, in an environment where fun, open culture & positivism is a prerequisite.
At FrieslandCampina we daily work together to produce healthy and sustainable nutrition for áll people. All people are central to us. Not only as consumers but also as colleagues. We try to reflect the diversity of our consumers in our personnel policy. The world continues to change at a fast pace and becomes more complex every day. We are one of the largest dairy companies in the world. Due to our unique structure, our farmers are owners as well as suppliers of our company. We are successful because we are good at valuing our milk commercially, but also in terms of nutritional value. We are also successful because we create an environment that is focused on equality, inclusion and respect. Everyone is unique but equally important, despite our differences. We believe that being diverse can make the difference and that an inclusive working environment leads to more acceptance and growth. FrieslandCampina stands for equality and fights for an inclusive and safe working environment for all, to reach our full potential. We are active in very competitive markets and must therefore keep innovating and sometimes take risks to remain relevant. Both we and our farmers believe in fair business with a focus on the long term. For us, sustainability is a logical consequence of this.