Demand Planner
Job Location: Kyiv
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? 38,767 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:
This role operates at the intersection of the sales team, business leaders, and supply chain.
Your task will be create a product-level forecast on a recurring basis.
Main Responsibilities:
- Forecasting activities associated with customers and products. Creation and maintain of forecast models for customers, incorporating business intelligence and forecast information gathered from sales, marketing, finance, retailer replenishment analysts, and other sources (i.e.: Nielsen or other syndicated consumer data);
- Leading a dialogue with key sales, marketing and supply chin managers in order to creation or modification the sales forecast for customers and products;
- Post-analysis of forecast to detect the real effect of the volume of activities, innovations, promotions and other;
- Deep root cause analysis on forecast errors, drive strong action plan upon them.
Who we are looking for:
- University Degree (technical, mathematics, economy, statistics);
- Experience in FMCG companies on the similar position (with customer’s volume planning), experience in Sales department is a plus;
- Experience in Customer demand planning;
- Experience of participation in S&OP (sales and operations planning) process or/and JBP (joint business plan) with customers as a plus;
- Computer skills: MS Office – advanced level, SAP APO, MS SQL – as a plus;
- Language skills English – intermediate/upper intermediate;
- Strong analytical, and communication skills, team working skills, result orientation, responsibility, stress resistance, ability to meet deadlines.
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.