Demand Planning Director responsible for shaping strategies for Consumer Tissue business unit. Lead demand planning processes, driving efficiency and transparency in planning.
Responsibilities
Shape and drive the BU Demand Planning strategy and roadmap, ensuring strong alignment with Integrated Business Planning, global standards, and company decision-making forums.
Define, orchestrate, and execute the IBP roadmap for the Business Unit, in close collaboration with the Demand Planning Excellence function.
Lead IBP, S&OP, and long-term planning processes to deliver aligned, assumption-based, and transparent consensus plans.
Ensure demand plans balance ambition and feasibility, clearly highlighting risks, opportunities, and trade-offs to support executive decision-making.
Lead, coach, and develop a global demand planning community across geographies, fostering engagement, accountability, and continuous capability building.
Act as a trusted business partner to BU commercial teams and cross-functional stakeholders, ensuring transparent and assumption-based planning.
Drive the transformation and standardization of demand planning processes and ways of working across countries and regions, in line with global templates.
Define and continuously optimize demand planning capabilities in partnership with the Demand Planning Excellence team.
Partner with forecasting and analytics teams to deliver accurate, unbiased, and data-driven demand plans.
Requirements
University degree in Supply Chain, Business, Finance, Engineering, or related field.
10+ years of international leadership experience in Demand planning, S&OP and IBP, within large, complex supply chain environments and across multiple regions, ideally in FMCG.
Demonstrated capability to design and lead large-scale transformation journeys, with clear and measurable impact on business performance.
Deep knowledge of forecasting methodologies, statistics, AI/ML forecasting and planning systems (e.g., SAP S/4, IBP, Anaplan).
Proven change leadership experience within complex matrix organizations.
Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
Proven leadership experience in multicultural environments.
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