Promotion Planner, Arla Denmark - Aarhus (maternity cover)

at  Arla Foods

Location:Viby J, DK
Do you have a commercial mindset and flair for crunching numbers? Do you want to work with promotions and planning in close cooperation with skilled colleagues? Then you are perfect for this position as Promotion Planner in Arla Denmark.
This position is a 12 month’s maternity cover, where you in close cooperation with the Demand Planning team will work with dedicated and professional colleagues in sales and planning. It is our goal to ensure that Arla’s customers always experience superior customer service and the right amount of fresh goods delivered on time.

WHAT WILL MAKE YOU SUCCESSFUL

For this position, we are looking for a person who truly thrives in a dynamic role where you interact with many internal and external stakeholders. It motivates you to secure the day-to-day work, where your main focus is to plan, coordinate and work with numbers. You are open-minded and so, it comes natural to you to explore new opportunities relevant for the business. Besides this, we expect that you:

• Use your customer focus, detail orientation and analytical skills to provide the best possible results
• Are a skilful communicator
• Are confident in collaborating across departments and enjoy being held accountable for your area of responsibility
• Are proactive and able to remain calm under pressure
• Have experience in Excel, preferably including the use of data analysis tools like Power BI
• Have a relevant educational background on bachelor or master level
• Speak and write Danish fluently, as Danish is our working language

WE HAVE A PURPOSE FOR GOOD

At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?

Your tasks will include:

• Responsible for updating promotions agreed with customers into planning systems in close dialogue with customers and Business Units about volume, timing and prices
• Create promotion forecast based on analytics of historical sales data and category development
• Evaluating completed sales promotions and adjusting planned future promotions accordingly
• Lead, evaluate and identify opportunities for continuous improvement of promotion planning processes to ensure that activities are completed accurately and on time
• Creating intuitive and relevant reporting for the business using the latest tools, i.e. Microsoft Power BI, Excel, SAP Analysis for Office etc

For this position, we are looking for a person who truly thrives in a dynamic role where you interact with many internal and external stakeholders. It motivates you to secure the day-to-day work, where your main focus is to plan, coordinate and work with numbers. You are open-minded and so, it comes natural to you to explore new opportunities relevant for the business. Besides this, we expect that you:

• Use your customer focus, detail orientation and analytical skills to provide the best possible results
• Are a skilful communicator
• Are confident in collaborating across departments and enjoy being held accountable for your area of responsibility
• Are proactive and able to remain calm under pressure
• Have experience in Excel, preferably including the use of data analysis tools like Power BI
• Have a relevant educational background on bachelor or master level
• Speak and write Danish fluently, as Danish is our working languag