Demand Planner Austria
Job Location: Innsbruck
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Ferrero is a family-owned company with a truly progressive and global outlook and iconic brands such as Nutella®, Tic Tac®, Ferrero Rocher®, Raffaello®, Kinder Bueno® and Kinder Surprise®. As the love for our brands continues to grow, so too does our global reach. Represented in 55 countries, with products sold in more than 170, the Ferrero Group is loved by generations around the world. The secret to our global success? Nearly 35,000 dedicated employees who celebrate care and quality to craft a business, careers and brands we are proud of. Join us, and you could be one of them.
Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all of our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative and highly rewarding.
About the Role:
If you’re looking for a role with variety, this is it . As a Demand Planner your tasks will be the safeguarding of quantity of goods, planned by the Sales department:
- Short-Term-Perspective - Demand Planning: to ensure the availability of the right quantity of products at the right time, within the budget - based on a correct inventory management.
- Long-Term-Perspective (S&OP-Planning): to ensure the availability of production capacities, raw- and packaging materials.
- The gross annual salary for this position is in line with the collective agreement, with an attractive overpayment depending on qualifications and professional experience.
Main Responsibilities:
As a process coach at the interface between marketing, sales and goods procurement or logistics, you will actively coordinate the smooth internal supply chain process and its optimization.
This includes
- Creation and regularly updating short-term and long-term plans for selected categories in Austria and Switzerland.
- Forward-looking long-term planning based on correct inventory management
- Active contingent/quota management from planning to delivery
- Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) for selected customers in Austria and Switzerland
- Analysis of sales figures (gap analysis) with regard to various key figures
Who we are looking for:
- Completed university degree, ideally with a focus on controlling and/or supply chain or comparable qualifications
- Analytical thinking with an affinity for numbers/data
- Written and spoken German and English
- Confident handling of Microsoft Office, especially Excel
- SAP(APO) and SAP(BW) knowledge is an advantage
- Professional experience in controlling, business analysis and/or sales/demand planning is an advantage, but not a must
- Solution-oriented personality and very good communication and teamwork skills in a multicultural environment
How to be successful in the role and at Ferrero:
Consumers, quality and care are at the heart of everything we do. So, to be successful at Ferrero, you’ll need to be just as consumer and product centric as we are - dedicated to crafting brilliant results for consumers around the world.
We encourage all our people to think creatively to set personal targets and objectives and push new, better ways to work. Employee contribution and engagement at Ferrero is based on three dimensions: individual, team and organization that’s why you should have the ability to work independently, proactively and as a team member. A demonstrable great organizing skill and ability to collaborate at all organizational levels will help you in building your position among stakeholders and achieve team goals.