Global Demand Planning & Integrated Business Planning Manager (d/f/m)

Global Demand Planning & Integrated Business Planning Manager (d/f/m)

Essity is a leading global hygiene and healthcare company. We are committed to improving the quality of life through high-quality hygiene and healthcare solutions. We sell our products and solutions in around 150 countries under many strong brands, including the global market leaders TENA and Tork, as well as well-known brands such as Jobst, Leukoplast, Libero, Libresse, Lotus, Nosotras, Saba, Tempo, Vinda and Zewa.

For our Demand Planning department, we are looking for a Global Demand Planning & Integrated Business Planning Manager to lead our team as soon as possible.

Your Role

1. Lead and develop our Global end-to-end Demand Planning process to excellence with your team of 10 Global Planning enthusiasts.
2. Ensure a constant strong demand signal and efficient communication between our key stakeholders of Sales, Supply, and Finance along the Planning Process.
3. Continuously improve our statistical Forecast and analytics function and assure that the Planning community keeps focusing on the right priorities.
4. Create full visibility of all market FC enrichments in close collaborations with the marketing teams. Focus on growth drivers, and challenge (launch) plans and phase out in the early phase of definition.
5. Communicate demand plans and related assumptions, deviations from plan, and important information into the supply organization by finding an appropriate structure, cadence, and agenda with the monthly cycle.
6. Build on current KPI’s and further develop supporting KPI’s driving value add for customers.
7. Build and implement a global result-oriented IBP process enabling growth, product availability, and appropriate working capital process involving all stakeholders, such as commercial, marketing, supply, finance, sourcing, etc.
8. Own and lead the pre-IBP meetings with respective stakeholders of relevant functions, create alignment of plans, identify challenges, and find solutions while strongly supporting the preparation of executive meetings.

You Identify Yourself With

Even if not all of the following points apply to you, we would be happy to get to know you and talk about the possibility of working with you!

• University degree or equivalent within relevant field with 3-5 years of experience in demand planning (from commercial to supply), ideally in medical or fast-moving consumer goods business.
• Experience in integrated business planning.
• Very good business acumen and ability to understand and drive business results.
• Strong leadership capabilities and team player.
• Profound experience from working with different hierarchies and stakeholders in a global matrix organization, demonstrated ability to collaborate across diverse teams and levels.
• Excellent communication skills in English, additional languages are a plus.
• Prepared to travel 20% of the time.

Our Benefits for You

The benefits listed refer to the primary location. If you want to start at another location, these may vary.

1. Compensation & Benefits: Compensation above tariff, yearly special payment, bonus, annual salary adjustment process, pension schemes, anniversary bonus, child allowance, Corporate Benefits & other employee benefits.
2. Work-Life-Balance: Hybrid working model, flexible working hours, overtime compensation, 39h week, 30 days of vacation plus additional balance days, lifetime working time account.
3. Learning & Development: Structured onboarding, training opportunities such as digital learning platform, coaching & mentoring as possible part of individual development plan, participation in professional conferences and fairs.
4. Health & Well-being: Discounted fitness membership, Lease-a-bike, health and well-being month, Walk-and-Talk Meetings, mindfulness courses, "PME Familienservice", employee surveys.
5. Team & Collaboration: People culture, communities & networks, co-working spaces, leadership guidelines, canteen.
6. Mobility: Company Car OR Public transport allowance, bicycle parking, free car parking, e-charging stations.

This is Us

At Essity, our Beliefs & Behaviours (Care, Collaboration, Courage, and Commitment) is the foundation for our inclusive culture and as such something we are living on an everyday basis. With a purpose of Breaking Barriers to Well-being established in our core, we are committed against discrimination on the basis of color, ethnicity, migration history, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, caregiving responsibilities, disability, chronic illness, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, and other. We explicitly welcome applications from people who are structurally, institutionally, intersectionally discriminated. #Essity-DE

Together, we are improving lives, every day. Working at Essity is not just a career; it is a chance to directly make the world a healthier, more hygienic, and safer place. With impactful innovations coupled with sustainable solutions, we strive to reach more people every year with the necessary and essential solutions for well-being.