You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.
About us
Kimberly-Clark Professional®. Kleenex®. Scott®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.
At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.
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About You
As the Demand Planner Northern Europe (DACH Region, Benelux, Nordics) within the EMEA International Family Care & Professional (IFP) Demand Planning team, you will be responsible for providing an accurate, up-to-date view of demand for a specific category and/or regional clusters, maintaining an eighteen-month rolling forecast. You will also support the aggressive growth plans for EMEA IFP, whilst enabling the Supply Chain team to deliver their Working Capital and Customer Service goals. The role offers broad exposure to the fast developing EMEA IFP business with its constant product and supply chain development and innovation.
Furthermore, you will develop close working relationships with Supply Planning, Category Management, Business Analysis, Customer Management, Finance, Marketing, Logistics and SSC based teams, across multiple geographies.
You will report directly to the Demand Planning Excellence Team Leader, within the EMEA International Family Care & Professional (IFP) Supply Chain organization. You will be an individual contributor (no direct reports).
Your key accountabilities
- Support the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process by leading the S&OP Demand reviews.
- Manage the supply chain volume forecast process for a particular product category / Northern Europe cluster by maintaining a 18 month rolling forecasts for planning purposes.
- Liaise and align with regional Finance resources to provide a reliable volume forecast as base input for Quarterly Financial Forecasts.
- Provide independent analysis of available data streams and information to improve Demand Management KPIs (forecast accuracy and bias).
- Support new product introduction supply chain volume forecasts through collaboration with customer management, category managers and local marketing teams.
- Manage forecast locations splits and roll-overs in our systems to optimize service and reduce obsolescence and cost exposure.
- Optimize the use of our Demand Planning system Prevail, as well as APO and R3.
- Optimize and continuously improve EMEA International Family Care & Professional (IFP) forecasting processes in line with business changing needs.
- You will be working in various system applications, mainly the Prevail forecasting system as well as the APO Demand Planning Module, Excel, and BW / Analysis for Excel.
What we need from you
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Previous business experience in Supply Chain: demand planning would be highly beneficial; Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) related experience would be preferred, as well as knowledge of physical supply chain structures and demand management principles.
- A high level of proficiency in Excel, aptitude for forecasting and working with system generated statistical modeling.
- Ability to navigate in fast moving environments with constant change and continual development
- Motivated self-starter approach with strong analytical skills and ability and to interpret business analysis.
- First class communication skills.
- Fluency in English is essential, German good level is a strong nice to have. Any additional European language will be a plus.
