Business Administrator as Demand Planner / FMCG (all genders)

The following adventures await you at Schleich:

1. Responsible for collecting, analysing and maintaining 18-month-rolling forecast of an assigned Sales Region.
2. Playing a key role in S&OP Process: facilitating and leading monthly Demand Review meetings together for the management sign-off.
3. Improving the planning accuracy for your products, franchises and sales regions along the whole product lifecycle.
4. Consolidating sales, marketing inputs and consumer insights to allow data-driven decision making.
5. Improving availability for our customers & consumers in close collaboration with Supply Planning, Order Management and Sales Analytics.
6. Driving a “what-if” planning and decision-making culture throughout our planning processes and meetings.
7. Aggregated long-term planning for a more optimized purchasing process.
8. Continuously optimize our Demand Planning process, reporting and tools.

The chapters of your story so far:

1. You have a university degree with a focus on Business Administration, Supply Chain, Economics or equivalent education.
2. You have gained several years of relevant professional experience in S&OP and Forecasting in an international environment, ideally from a CPG/FMCG area.
3. You have excellent communication skills and strength in leading processes and projects.
4. You are a natural and authentic team player (all genders) across departments and capable of collaborative planning.
5. You have a strong “out-of-the-box” thinking mindset, conceptual skills and a passion for continuous improvements.
6. You have gained very good knowledge of MS Office (especially Excel and PowerPoint) and forecasting software; experience with SAP and Power BI are an advantage.
7. Working knowledge of Python (pandas, matPlotLib, NumPy) is an advantage.
8. Working knowledge of SAP IBP Planning software is an advantage.
9. You are fluent in English and ideally you have good German language skills spoken and written.

No kingdoms nor mountains of gold, but many other rewards:

No two days are the same in this career like no other. Work in a dynamic, diverse environment that offers individual career and development opportunities. All our employees also have access to numerous online courses via our training platform.

Let’s write the Schleich story together. Be part of a motivated team of people who support and inspire each other and celebrate success together.

We aim to please. We offer an attractive, fair salary with additional benefits that are regularly reviewed and updated. Appetizing! We offer a meal allowance of 82.60 CKR per working day. Every hero must retire one day. That’s why we offer a subsidised pension scheme. You can also enjoy great discounts on our Schleich products – a great bonus for kids and adults alike.

And what about your adventures outside of Schleich? You can count on 30 days of paid leave per year and a hybrid working model with no core working hours.