Hello, we’re L’Oréal. We're not just building brands, we're shaping how the world experiences beauty (and it takes a lot of cool jobs to do it). Intrigued? Keep reading, this might be the opportunity you've been searching for.
A Day in the Life You will report to the Demand Planning Lead, driving sales forecasting accuracy to ensure product availability.
- Partner with Brand Teams and Mancom to align sales forecasts with business trends.
- Build robust demand plans using Excel, SAP, and FuturMaster.
- Continuously optimize planning processes and share best practices.
- Lead the sales forecast process for your brands, ensuring global sales forecast consistency through building consensus between commercial/customer forecasts, financial trend and sales history
- Challenge and consolidate the promotional and launch sales forecasts projected by the Sales and Marketing teams, working closely with Business planning to align
- Present the sales forecast to senior management for monthly sign-off, highlighting risks and opportunities vs financial commitments
- Manage monthly and weekly communication with both the S&OP and UK based supply planning teams – providing an overview of key forecast changes.
- Drive the improvement of sales forecast practices and KPI improvement initiatives
- Be responsible for the catalog management and contribute to its optimization.
- Support the Supply Planner of your brands with mentoring and advice to help improve efficiencies and service to customer
- Be part of the Mancom for your brand, leading and driving supply chain initiatives.
We Are Looking For
- Stakeholder Management Skills
- Ability to engage and positively influence internal & external stakeholders. Ability to manage upwards.
- Continuous improvement mindset
- Review and improve processes and share best practice with the wider team
- Demand Planning Experience
- 2 years experience in product planning. Experience in demand planning is an advantage
- Strong understanding of the building blocks and trends that influence the construction of a sales forecast
- Excellent Communication Skill
- Be able to effectively communicate with stakeholders at all levels and simplify complex messages.
- Be able to co-ordinate planning topics with your Mancom and brand team.
- Systems Knowledge
- Excellent working knowledge of Excel. FuturMaster and SAP are an advantage
- Experience in demand or business planning systems an advantage
What’s In It For You
- A place for you to leave your comfort zone and grow beyond your potential (here, you’ll be encouraged to try new things and take risks!)
- Real responsibility from day 1, there’s no sitting on the sidelines at L’Oréal
- An environment where people of every ethnicity, social background, age, religion, gender and sexual orientation as well as people with disabilities are accepted, can speak up, will thrive and are celebrated!
- A place where you can contribute to something bigger! Many of our brands have societal /environmental causes to make concrete difference
- Who We Are L’Oréal is present in 150 markets on five continents. For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted itself solely to ‘Create beauty that moves the world’; it is now the industry world leader with €42 billion consolidated sales. Together, we solve complex challenges at scale, while making sure we stay committed to making the world a more inclusive and a better place for everyone & our planet.
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