Demand Planner

at  Nilfisk

Demand Planner with flair for analytics and business insights
Are you passionate about supply chain and are you looking for an exciting job opportunity in a global company full of passionate individuals? Do you have a holistic approach to end-to-end planning with a particular interest and experience in demand planning? Are you capable of translating complex data to provide easy to understand business insights? Then this is your chance for joining a young, dynamic and ambitious team striving for global supply chain excellence.
Be part of shaping Nilfisk into a customer driven supply chain through demand planning excellence.
Our European Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) department has the European responsibility for long term demand, supply, and S&OP planning in Nilfisk. We are these years on a journey to transform S&OP into a truly cross-functional decision making process in Nilfisk, balancing supply and demand, providing Nilfisk with ONE reliable plan to increase End2End to value.
We are looking for a young and ambitious team player to drive our demand planning process within the EMEA region. The primary role of the demand planner is to ensure the execution of the commercial side of Nilfisk’s S&OP process, this in close collaboration with sales, marketing & finance. All of this with a strong cross-functional collaboration mindset towards a wide range of stakeholders within Nilfisk.

Main tasks being:

• Develop and review demand plans with country and regional stakeholders.
• Drive demand plan review and consolidation in collaboration with key stakeholder in sales, marketing & finance.
• Ensure alignment between demand plan and financial budgets.
• Collect past/future demand inputs (such as new customers, marketing plans, price changes, new/discontinued products and promotional plans). Consolidating their impacts in the overall demand plan.
• Communicate recommended demand adjustments with clearly defined reasons and logic.
• Ability to create multiple demand scenarios that impact the business needs/expectations.
• Communicate supply constraints in an effective way, increasing sales awareness of the capabilities of Operations & Services.
• Drive improvements of our tools and data reports to give insight to the organization.
• Continuously monitor forecast accuracy and identify improvement areas and actions to be taken.
• Collaborate closely with our Sales and Operation Managers, ensuring that demand plan changes are leading to evaluation of supply capabilities towards our factories and suppliers globally.
• Contribute to the development of the presentation and slide deck for the monthly Executive S&OP meeting with participation of our CEO and Nilfisk Leadership Team.

You will play an important role in our team to continuously develop and enhance the way we work getting us closer to our ambition of a truly excellent customer-driven supply chain.
You are an experienced professional with 3+ years of experience within Supply Chain and hold a master’s degree in Supply Chain Management or Operations Management, Bachelor’s degree in Production Engineering or equivalent. Further it is an advantage if you:
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Are a skilled user of ERP systems, preferably SAP APO and R/3 (ECC) or SAP IBP.

• Have excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
• Are skilled in use of MS Office, especially Excel & PowerPoint.
• Ability to work with large datasets and translate to key business insights.
• Are able to interact with all functional areas and all organizational levels.
• Have insights in performance management tools and operational KPI’s.
• Have great interpersonal skills – being a team player and strong in stakeholder management.
• Have the ability to plan, organize, and manage multiple tasks.
• Ambitious and willing to learn and grow rapidly!

The European Sales & Operations Planning department
We are a team of highly skilled supply chain professionals dedicated to driving exceptional results. As we undergo the transition from a global team to a regional team, we are selectively rehiring individuals who will bring fresh perspectives and talents to our dynamic environment. We are committed to fostering a culture that values autonomy, accomplishment, freedom of opinion, and management support. By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to contribute significantly to our business, enjoy a high degree of independence, and experience tremendous potential for professional and personal development.
Let’s create a cleaner future together
Clean is changing. Today, cleaning is a key contributor to health and safety, and a new clean is emerging, driven by technology and innovation. At Nilfisk we are a driving force in this development, and we work as one team with one agenda, supporting each other across an exciting, dynamic organization. Being part of Nilfisk means having the freedom to speak your mind and do what you do best. You will thrive by having a hands-on approach and the drive to bring your great ideas to life. At Nilfisk you can lead, innovate and collaborate for a cleaner future. Are you ready to make a change?
We embrace diversity and equality with an environment of inclusion. We encourage everyone to apply for the position, regardless of origin, race, ethnicity, religion, physical or mental ability, gender, gender-identity or expression, sexual orientation, and age.

• Develop and review demand plans with country and regional stakeholders.
• Drive demand plan review and consolidation in collaboration with key stakeholder in sales, marketing & finance.
• Ensure alignment between demand plan and financial budgets.
• Collect past/future demand inputs (such as new customers, marketing plans, price changes, new/discontinued products and promotional plans). Consolidating their impacts in the overall demand plan.
• Communicate recommended demand adjustments with clearly defined reasons and logic.
• Ability to create multiple demand scenarios that impact the business needs/expectations.
• Communicate supply constraints in an effective way, increasing sales awareness of the capabilities of Operations & Services.
• Drive improvements of our tools and data reports to give insight to the organization.
• Continuously monitor forecast accuracy and identify improvement areas and actions to be taken.
• Collaborate closely with our Sales and Operation Managers, ensuring that demand plan changes are leading to evaluation of supply capabilities towards our factories and suppliers globally.
• Contribute to the development of the presentation and slide deck for the monthly Executive S&OP meeting with participation of our CEO and Nilfisk Leadership Team