Demand Planning Manager (12 months interim cover)

at  LEGO

Are you ready to join a high performing Operations team where you can have a significant impact on the performance of a leading toy brand and its partners?
Use your excellent stakeholder management skills to assure an optimal planning of demand and distribution of goods in the Benelux markets and create value for LEGO’s customers with your analytical skills and focus on quality.
Please note that this role is based in Brasschaat, Belgium (nearby the Dutch border – Breda) . We can offer a local Belgian or Dutch contract depending on the country you are living in. The position is for a fixed time only - 12 months in duration.

ROLE OUTLINE

Your role as demand planning manager is to create, together with the demand planning team the most accurate monthly sales plan at SKU level for the next months for the Benelux Business Unit, based on a monthl y process where relevant stakeholders are involved, i.e., sales, marketing, supply chain, finance, operations etc.
At the same time, you will take an important role in gathering and applying long-term planning assumptions together with the sales and marketing teams as an input for the monthly planning process.
To secure quality in the forecast, it is important that the demand planning manager has a holistic view of the business and knows how current and future performance can and will affect the forecast.
You will also challenge and help marketing and sales on their planning and drive different projects related to Operations in the Business Unit . You will report directly to the Operations Director.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Conduct Forecasting process :

Make a month ly plan at SKU level on a 4-to-10-month horizon for an assigned group of customers in the BU, for all items, including co-promotions and bundles.

• Work closely with Marketing, Sales, Finance and Operations to gather all relevant information to make the best plan.
• Make use of the statistical model and use historical sales analysis to make the best SKU forecast.
• Submit weekly plan into the LEGO Demand Planning tool.
• Analyze KPIs (Forecast – Bias; Mix; Inventory Turns), take corrective actions and monitor the results
• Brief the sales and marketing teams on forecast deadlines and guidelines and gather assumptions and take lead on the monthly input cycle and consolidate to help the S&OP lead on building the BU plan.

1. Provide insights and challenge Marketing and Sales on their weekly and monthly plans at theme and account level by using the flow forecasting tool and SKU planning tool.
2. Conduct projects within the BU and in Europe on Operations areas
3. Cooperate with the Regional Planning Team in London and work in synergies to elaborate the best baseline forecast
4. Initiate and drive continuous improvement initiatives within the team and throughout the organization related to Forecasting.