Demand Planner (fixed-term contract)

Job Description

Are you interested in a demand planner role within a LEGO Business Unit (BU). Accountable for delivering the short-term demand plan for a group of franchises your work is key to an effective BU S&OP process helping the business to deliver its commercial targets!

Please note: This is a 12-month fixed-term contract. Relocation support is not offered for this role.

Please submit your application and CV in English.

Core Responsibilities:

• Building upon a statistical forecast you will deliver a weekly demand plan for a significant part of the BUs revenue covering a rolling 9 months horizon - the monthly forecast covers Sell In at SKU level and Consumer Sales at franchise/brand level

• Ensuring demand plans accurately reflect known marketing activities product launch timings and promotional activities both LEGO and customer funded

• Support sales and marketing teams to evaluate the likely impact of commercial investments specifically support Brand Managers in their franchise/brand planning for the full horizon ensuring alignment of assumptions. This will include monthly BU Brand Assumptions Review Meetings.

• Set appropriate forecast exception message parameters and respond to forecast exception messages as part of your daily rigour

• Ensure monthly data is uploaded into planning system key data feeds to the statistical model are kept up to date by the relevant data owners

• Support the effective life cycle management of new products by ensuring launch plans are correctly reflected within the demand planning tools as well as exit products by ensuring effective management of customer stock levels and providing the latest information on the most likely demand

• You will be measured on your ability to accurately forecast Consumer Sales and Customer Sell In metrics include spread of forecast error and the level of bias

• Furthermore you will support the BU S&OP processes playing an active role in gap closing and helping to prepare cases

• You will ensure effective communication with the regional demand planning team ensuring top down strategies are understood within the BU whilst also providing the Market Group demand planners with clarity of key BU specific initiatives across the full forecasting horizon

Play your part in our team succeeding

The role 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 to take corrective action. The output of their work is also used by supply chain to ensure the right products are manufactured at the right time maximising In Stock Availability whilst avoiding the generation of waste. The demand planner role is multi lingual as it is used to inform supply chain (volume) and commercial planning processes (value)!

Do you have what it takes:

• Some years of experience in Demand Planning within a consumer goods environment

• Able to communicate in a way that makes complex data easy to understand

• Able to assimilate multiple data inputs and determine a most likely outcome

• An ability to influence senior colleagues

• A strong knowledge of statistics

• Effective written and verbal communication skills

• Continuous improvement mentality

• Proficient in Italian and English

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 youre interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Whats 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 youll 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 youll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team youll 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 seeksto 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 Childrens 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.

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