Demand Planning Manager (m/f/d), München / Frankfurt / Nürnberg

As a world leading food company DANONE stands for international success. Around 104.000 employees work on all five continents in the four business areas Fresh Dairy Products, Early Life Nutrition, Waters and Advanced Medical Nutrition on one corporate mission: “Bringing health through food to as many people as possible.”

Missions

• In charge of the creation of an accurate short/mid and long-term forecast for local DACH partners, and main brands/ innovations mainly Alpro
• Responsible for the weekly forecast update and maintenance of the systems, as well as the monthly Global Planning system (GPS) including presentation to top management
• Understand business and demand levers to manage ad-hoc requests and drive operational topics as well as strategic analysis
• Continuous improvement of the existing GPS process & tools to bring them to next maturity level
• Close relationship with Sales, Marketing and Finance and lively exchange within the supply chain cluster
• Start is as of now in Frankfurt am Main, Haar (near Munich), Nuremberg or Dusseldorf.

Profile

• University degree in Business Administration
• Practical experience in Planning, ideally skilled in GPS processes
• Fluent use of Office applications (mostly Excel), IBP, APO/SAP knowledge is a plus
• Highly analytical and data driven without losing big picture
• Strong communication skills and ability to easily connect with others
• Proactive, challenging mindset and easy to adapt to continuous change
• Proficiency in spoken and written English, German as a plus