Senior Manager, Long Term Demand Planning

Job Description

Are you passionate about supporting sales and marketing to develop plans that drive the LEGO Group to reach more children and enable the supply chain to plan for the future across the CEEMEA Market Group Bring your sharp analytical skills and engaging communication style to this pivotal role!

Core Responsibilities

• Own the sell in forecast for set of LEGO Themes and assigned Business Units of CEEMEA region
• Use a statistical forecast driven by machine learning and deliver a monthly demand plan for up to a 20-month horizon.
• Ensure the demand plan accurately reflects known marketing product launch and promotional activities for long term horizon.
• Engage with assigned BUs in CEEMEA in the deployment of the business strategy and ensure local market assumptions are collected and optimally communicated.
• Inform and advise the General Managers of likely outcomes for their business and highlight potential risks play a key role throughout the S&OP process.
• Consolidate results to the Regional Demand Review meeting (RDR) for Market Group Head Approval
• Generate business cases for approval and/or escalation.
• Support in the engagement with senior management and crafting and delivering the key messages for respective forums
• Participate in the monthly submission process following demand plan approval.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives for demand planning processes tools and reports.

Play your part in our team succeeding

Reporting into the CEEMEA Long Term Demand Planning Director you will support 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. Your work will be key to an effective BU S&OP process helping the business to deliver its commercial targets.

Do you have what it takes

• Supply chain planning background with some experience within demand planning
• A strong understanding of statistics and analytical skills
• A proven track record to tell the story.
• An understanding of end-to-end supply chains IBP and S&OP processes
• An ability to master complexity
• Ability to communicate in a way that makes the complex simple
• Validated influencing skills
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
  
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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.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Childrens Rights.

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