Demand Planner Home and Personal Care, Unilever

No matter who you are, or where in the world you are, the chances are that our products are a familiar part of your daily routine.Every day, around the world, people reach for Unilever products.Our brands are trusted everywhere and, by listening to the people who buy them, we've grown into one of the world's most successful consumer goods companies.In fact, 150 million times a day, someone somewhere chooses a Unilever product.Look in your fridge, or on the bathroom shelf, and you're bound to see one of our well-known brands.We create market and distribute the products that people choose to feed their families and keep themselves and their homes clean and fresh. Unilever Nordic is looking for a Demand Planner to work Home & Personal Care Planning team, Sweden.As a demand planner you will be expected to execute the volume forecasting for a specific category of products in Sweden and to be a key player in the Sales & Operation Process within the company. We know that a successful career within Demand Planning in the fast moving consumer goods business is built around true commitment to your planning portfolio, strong analytical skills and a drive and a passion to find creative solutions. Key responsibilities: - Deliver and create integrated volume demand plan for a specific category of products - Review the historical sales and market data at an appropriate level of detail and horizon to maintain the high quality of baseline forecast - Understand how the statistical forecasting tool operates and applies statistical models, depending on the historical pattern and horizon - Operate in SAP APO/BW - Understand and record demand drivers and assumptions behind the baseline sales, identify risks and opportunities and highlight gaps in the demand plan vs.target - Analyze the demand plans in detail and challenge the sales, marketing and category management to improve the volume demand plans - Translate feedback and incorporate into the volume demand plans - Highlight potential or current stock issues to Supply Planning and other functions - Follow and maintain the KPI reporting in order to improve the forecasting process Your background: Candidate should have a university degree (Engineering or Economics preferably within the Logistics area) and/or 2-3 years of experience in demand planning.Ideally you have working knowledge of SAP/R3 and APO.The right candidate needs to have a strong drive, be proactive towards issues and opportunities, the ability to build relationships and think and act across function and along processes.We also want you to be analytic and structured together with a good team spirit and good communication skills. Please submit your application on www.unilever.se - karriär as soon as possible, but by January 14th at the latest.