Demand Planning Specialist

About the job

At Beiersdorf, we want to help people feel good about their skin – and our commitment goes far beyond caring for skin. For 140 years, we have developed innovative skin and body care products for well-known brands such as NIVEA, Eucerin, La Prairie, Hansaplast, and Labello. We act according to our purpose, WE CARE BEYOND SKIN, and take responsibility for our consumers, our employees, the environment and society.

Behind every brand, every product and every accomplishment are our more than 20,000 employees. It is for them that we live an inclusive culture of respect and trust that is strongly aligned with our values – CARE, COURAGE, SIMPLICITY and TRUST. We also embrace diversity by valuing the uniqueness of each individual and being committed to equal opportunities for all.

Role Overview

As a Supply Chain Planning Specialist, you will be responsible for ensuring the smooth running of the Demand Planning process as a whole, in order to improve sales forecasting with the aim of monitoring business plans and achieving the best service level, while reducing Supply Chain costs.

Your Tasks

• Manage the local Sales & Operations (S&OP) process for your portfolio, in order to generate a reliable and quality forecast, taking into account the perspectives of the different departments;
• Update and monitor the "standard" forecasts generated by statistical models, integrating the technical and commercial parameters collected from the Marketing, Sales & Shopper teams;
• Update short term forecast in the system (weekly update);
• Coordinate actions with cross-functional teams to improve promotion and launch planning, ensuring that forecasts accurately reflect market trends and costumer order behaviour,
• Analyse performance indicators (KPIs), in particular Service Level, Forecast Accuracy and Forecast Bias, in order to identify areas of improvement, the origin of deviations and opportunities for optimization,
• Manage the implementation of the action plan with the Sales, Marketing & Customer Service teams to limit deviations,
• Cooperate with the Supply Planning team to secure stock allocation, optimize the level of safety stock, and execute agile processes to allow better responsiveness to unforeseen market events,
• Create and clean up Master Data in the system;
• Identify areas for improvement in terms of processes and working methods, as part of a continuous improvement approach, with the aim of gaining in precision and efficiency.

Your Profile

• Min. 2 years of experience in a similar position, FMCG is a plus.
• Master's degree in Supply Chain, Business or Engineering School
• SAP/ R3 / APO knowledge is must
• Fluent English, Proficiency in MS Office applications, advanced MS Excel is a must
• A degree in administrative sciences, or a related field
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Additional Information

We embrace Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and are committed to providing equitable opportunities to all of our applicants – regardless of race, gender, age, religion and beliefs, sexual orientation & gender identity, disability, cultural, ethnic or national origins. We would therefore kindly ask you to include only information and data in your documents which are relevant for the assessment of your application (e.g. curriculum vitae with relevant references and certificates) and encourage you to upload your CV without a picture.

We support flexible working, including job-sharing. Though our ambitions are serious, the team is energetic and inclusive and will offer you a great place to thrive. We believe there is immense power in diversity and aim to recruit and nurture talent who think and act differently.

Nivea Beiersdorf Turkey office in İstanbul Ayazağa region is the primary location for this position. Therefore, we recommend residence in Istanbul. Working model will be hybrid for this role, 3 days in office and 2 days remote. The exact arrangement of this agreement in the relevant team will be explained in a personal conversation.