Area Europe Demand Planning Hub Analyst
Job Location: Alba
Company Description:
Ferrero is a family-owned company with a truly progressive and global outlook and iconic brands such as Nutella®, Tic Tac®, Ferrero Rocher®, Raffaello®, Kinder Bueno® and Kinder Surprise®. As the love for our brands continues to grow, so too does our global reach. Represented in more than 50 countries, with products sold in more than 170, the Ferrero Group is loved by generations around the world. The secret to our global success? 40,000 dedicated employees who celebrate care and quality to craft a business, careers and brands we are proud of. Join us, and you could be one of them.
Diversity Statement
Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all of our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative and highly rewarding.
About the Role:
For our newly established Area Europe Demand Planning Hub, we are currently looking for a Demand Planning Hub Analyst, based in Alba (Italy), who will report to the Area Europe Demand Planning HUB Manager.
The Area Demand Planning Hub organization will be crucial for the company's success, a robust demand planning process will enhance the effectiveness of the overall supply chain, improving customer satisfaction and reducing the operating costs.
As a Demand Planning Hub Analyst, you will represent the center of statistical forecast expertise in the Area, equipping the key stakeholders with the capabilities required to deploy the Group Template ensuring understanding of Regions’ context and business environment. The Group template adherence is in accordance with the standards set by Global Demand Planning Centre of Excellence and in alignment with the Operational Excellence initiatives. Equally important, you will be responsible for monitoring Demand Planning Performance and Model Adoption within the Area and execute Demand Planning activities in close collaboration with the Markets.
Main Responsibilities:
Covering this role, you will support the generation of baseline for the Regions’, using statistical tools and drive the adoption in each Region of the Area, ensuring consistent deployment of Global Templates, in alignment with the Operational Excellence initiatives.
Equally important, you will represent the center of statistical expertise for the Area, equipping the key stakeholders with the capabilities required to deploy the Group Template as well as develop process standards manuals ensuring understanding of Area context and business environment. Furthermore, you will be developing expertise on key drivers and variables impacting the model development by category and type of customer unit, sharing best practices across Regions/Countries.
Moreover, you will monitor performance and KPIs, ensuring they align smoothly with the Global Centre of Excellence. This role supports defining and cascading related KPIs to regions and serves as the primary contact for demand expertise on monitoring, control, and root cause analysis at the Area level.
Regarding the Demand Planning Baseline Generation, you will set up statistical forecasts in collaboration with the Area Demand Planning Hub team, the Global COE and Demand Planners in the markets. You will also work in collaboration with markets to ensure understanding of the baseline and enable uplift definition as well as demand consolidation and communication with Area outlining main drivers and trend explanations.
Who we are looking for:
You will bring your Degree in any Industrial Engineering/Supply Chain/Statistics/Data Science related field and 2 to 4 years of relevant work experience in demand planning, driving demand forecasting with stakeholders.
Your hands-on experience in Statistical or Machine Learning forecasting tools will be an asset for us, together with your experience in deployment of demand forecasting tools.
Your capability to interact using in intermediate to advanced level of English will enable you to perform your daily activities.
If you are interested to work in a dynamic environment, actively contribute to Group Demand Planning Strategy definition, then this might be the right role for you!
How to be successful in the role and at Ferrero:
Consumers, quality and care are at the heart of everything we do. So, to be successful at Ferrero, you’ll need to be just as consumer and product centric as we are - dedicated to crafting brilliant results for consumers around the world.