Corporate Demand Manager
Corporate Demand Manager
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Job Description
Actual Talent is the talent acquisition consultancy that offers Executive Search RPO and Talent Solutions.
Our purpose is to drive the growth and fulfillment of individuals and organizations. We facilitate individuals in finding inspiring opportunities and help organizations discover professionals who will take them to the next level. We do this through talent acquisition and development solutions that focus on people diversity and inclusion innovation and cutting-edge technology.
We are seeking a Corporate Demand Manager to join one of our clients in the pharmaceutical sector. The position is based in Barcelona and offers a hybrid work model.
Your mission:
Reporting to the Corporate Head of Supply Chain the Corporate Demand Manager is a strategic leader responsible for overseeing the end-to-end demand planning process across all regions and product portfolios within the organization.
This role ensures the creation of accurate data-driven demand forecasts that inform supply commercial and financial planning at the global level. He partners closely with local demand planning teams to harmonize processes align forecasts and drive best practices while maintaining visibility over and inventory management
Your major accountabilities:
- Lead the global demand planning process consolidating forecasts from regional and local teams to create a unified corporate demand outlook.
- Analyze historical sales market intelligence and promotional activities to generate robust actionable demand forecasts and identify risks and opportunities.
- Drive and facilitate the Global Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process ensuring alignment between global demand supply and financial objectives.
- Identify and communicate demand risks and opportunities to senior leadership enabling proactive decision-making.
- Develop track and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) such as forecast accuracy bias and demand variability at the global and local levels and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
- Participate in new product introduction (NPI) projects to integrate launches and lifecycle events into demand plans.
- Lead the adoption and optimization of demand planning tools and digital solutions ensuring data accuracy and integrity as well as process efficiency across all regions.
We would like to have:
- Minimun 5 years of experience in demand planning in a global or regional role preferably in the pharma industry.
- Proven experience leading cross-functional and cross-regional teams in a matrix organization.
- Advanced analytical skills and proficiency with demand planning systems.
- Deep expertise in S&OP/IBP demand forecasting and digital transformation.
- Demonstrated ability to drive change lead complex projects and deliver in a highly matrixed environment.
- Fluent in English; additional languages are highly valued.
- Excellent leadership communication analytical Thinking problem solving change management and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Good understanding of End-to-end SC processes (Demand DRP & SP Logistics SC business analytics).
- Strong knowledge in SAP Supply Chain Management.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of initiative.
- Good knowledge in MS Office Suite Power BI basic programming skills in Python VBA for Excel or similar preferred.
- Availability to travel: 5%.
Employment Type
Full Time
