Job Description :
Demand Planner - MENA
About us
With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.
Join us to create a career worth celebrating.
About the Function
Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team are problem-solvers, sourcing, producing, and delivering our much-loved brands to delight customers around the globe. Over half of Diageo’s 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It’s an intricate and sophisticated operation that’s the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations.
Our teams in 100 sites in over 30 countries cover production facilities, supplier relationships, customer collaborations and third-party agreements. We’re committed to realising our ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’ goals, to protect the environment and support our farmers and suppliers. Whatever your skills and experience, we’ll help you to thrive in our inclusive culture
About the role
The Demand Planner is responsible for all SAP APO / OMP ADP statistical forecasting and data integrity activities. The planner will maintain baseline forecast and decide on building blocks to finalize the forecast, being on of the key inputs of monthly IBP process. The demand planner will own and drive statistical forecast accuracy, final forecast accuracy, Value Added Accuracy (Stat vs Naive, and Final vs Stat) performance to achieve targets. They will collaborate with commercial teams on history adjustments to drive robust statistical forecasts, and building block reconciliations to drive robust final forecast. The demand planner is responsible for data integrity, ensuring that the weekly forecast sent to Supply is applied to the correct sku/location.
Role Responsibilities

1. Generate base line statistical demand forecast and building blocks, providing final forecast for at least 18 months rolling:

• Pro-actively works with IBP owning the statistical forecast and highlighting deviations to the shipment and/or depletion trends.
• Use and maintain the SAP APO / OMP ADP softwares as the primary forecasting system tool
• Collaborate with IBP on all forecast history cleaning activities including documenting adjustments and assumptions (market trends, seasonality, promotions).
• Maintain statistical parameters for “best fit” model & generate a baseline at least 18 month rolling.
• Finalize building blocks, deciding on incrementals/substractions versus statistical forecast
• Maintain SAP APO/OMP ADP master data including CVC creation, disaggregation factors and attributes.
• Analyze outliers through appropriate reports and make corrections.
• Maintain all reports and visibility (pricing. promo, innovation, historical actuals, sales inputs, …) necessary to draw conclusions and make decisions on Building Blocks.
• Reconcile actuals versus building block assumptions, driving continuous learning cycle to improve Building Block accuracy.
• Support scenario planning for promotions, innovation and major events (duty, economics change, etc.) through stat analysis.
• Provide reports and insights to stakeholders to increase the use of baseline forecast and assumptions behind building blocks.

1. Provide key input to S&OP/IBP process

• Participate where relevant in S&OP process to align upon consensus forecast.
• Review statistical forecast and building block inputs to Strategic Planning and AOP process and challenge projected growth based on historical trends.
• Collaborate with IBP to conduct root cause analysis to identify drivers of forecast error and work together to take the necessary corrective action to drive continuous improvement in forecast accuracy and bias performance.

1. Continuously improve statistical forecasting and building blocks accuracy:

• Test and implement new models
• Implement best practices
• Support system developments
• Reconcile actuals versus building block assumptions

Experience, skills & capabilities required

• Significant experience working within the Demand and/or Supply Chain Planning process; Consumer Packaged Goods Industry preferred
• Experience with advanced planning software within Supply Planning (SAP APO system and Business Intelligence/BW )
• Baseline understanding of the end-to-end Supply Chain Planning processes; Supply Planning, Distribution Requirements Planning, Inventory Planning, Conversion, Logistics, Procurement and Customer Service
• Demonstrated proficiency in statistics and/or forecasting methodologies with an understanding of their financial and operational impacts
• Strong analytical, organizational and decision making skills
• Good communication skills – verbal, written and presentation.
• Proficient in MS applications e.g. Excel, SAP BW, Power BI,

Working With Us
Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.
We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you!
Worker Type :
Regular
Primary Location:
Amsterdam
Additional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date :
2025-08-1

Please refer the Job description for details