Head of Demand Planning to Henkel Norden in Alvik

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We’re now looking for a Head of Demand Planning to Henkel Norden. This is a recruitment for an indefinite period with a six-month trial period. Henkel operates worldwide with leading innovations, brands and technologies in three business areas: Adhesive Technologies, Beauty Care and Laundry & Home Care.  

Are you searching for your next challenge, where you’ll have responsibility from day one in a dynamic and fast paced environment? Do you want to lead, coach and develop a diverse and multi-faceted team? Then this might be your next exciting career step! This is an amazing opportunity to join the Nordic Supply Chain team at Henkel. If you’ve read this far, you’re most likely interested in the role. Great! To fit in and thrive as an employee at Henkel, the most important thing is your personality. However, to be able to execute and deliver within this role, there are some core competencies that are required. Are you a strategic problem solver who is excellent at building relationships and can make quick decisions? Do you have leadership experience, preferably within Demand Planning or FMCG? Then you might be the right person for this exciting opportunity as Head of Demand Planning at Henkel Norden.

 

In this role, you’ll make a real difference to the overall performance of the business by driving Demand Planning and S&OP best practice. A role where you’ll have a broad scope covering two very different business units in a branded environment. Each business unit brings different requirements combined with differing levels of complexity and process maturity. This is a challenging and exciting role which would suit someone with the drive and determination to take the function forward combined with a focus on delivering day to day service.

 

Job Description: -          Enable the development of superior demand plans in dynamic markets with most accurate sales forecasts and a high end-to-end visibility while ensuring ideal stock levels

-          Support and run optimal Co-Packing setup in alignment with Sales and Global Supply Chain requirements

-          Lead, coach and develop a diverse and multi-faceted team of 8 employees in the Demand Planning and Co-Packing team.

-          Lead the monthly S&OP Process and the respective meetings with special focus on demand alignment

-          Support launches, relaunches and promotions by providing business with visibility on existing stock and secure a proper implementation of projects with respect of timings and limitation of costs

-          Lead a regular complexity reduction process and the alignment with all stakeholders

-          Develop performance KPIs for Demand Planning including budget for scrapping and regularly track and review them.

-          Act as a deputy/backup of the Head of Supply Chain

 

Experience and skills: -          Leadership experience ideally within Demand Planning or FMCG

-          Change & people management experience

-          Commercial & business awareness

-          Preferably broader experience of Supply Chain including warehouse, logistics and customer service  

-          Fluency in English is a requirement. Swedish is not required but is an advantage

-          You have strong Excel skills. SAP skills is seen as a merit

-          Master’s Degree (or comparable) in a related field is an advantage

 

Personal characteristics: -          Excellent communication and relationship building skills

-          Excellent decision-making skills

-          Results and customer focused

-          Very good analytical skills and the ability to prioritize short and long-term goals

-          Team player with a LEAN mindset – you see opportunities rather than problems

-          Good strategic and problem-solving skills

-          Humble personality

-          Ability to make quick decisions

                                                                                                                                          

Interested? If you are up for the challenge and reckon that this position fits your profile, we would like to hear from you. Apply today, as we are reviewing applications ongoingly and the position might be filled before the application deadline.