Demand Planner
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About the Role
Reporting to the Customer Supply Chain Lead FBNL, the Demand Planner is responsible for driving end-to-end demand planning across all channels and accounts within the Benelux business. The role plays a critical part in ensuring product availability, optimizing inventory levels, and improving forecast accuracy to support business growth and customer service objectives.
Working at the intersection of Commercial, Finance, and Supply Chain teams, the Demand Planner develops and maintains robust demand forecasts, leads key elements of the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process, and provides actionable insights to support decision-making. The role also drives continuous improvement initiatives to enhance planning performance, forecasting capabilities, and supply chain efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
Demand Planning and Forecast Management
- Own the end-to-end demand planning process for assigned channels and accounts across all Consumer Healthcare categories.
- Develop and maintain consensus-based demand forecasts across short-, medium-, and long-term horizons (0-36 months), ensuring alignment with Commercial teams.
- Integrate customer insights, market intelligence, and commercial assumptions into demand plans to improve forecast quality and reliability.
- Maintain a detailed understanding of all demand forecast drivers, including statistical baselines, promotional uplifts, repacking activities, cannibalization effects, consumption trends, inventory levels, and market data.
Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)
- Contribute to and facilitate key market Commercial Cycle and S&OP meetings.
- Provide expert demand planning insight to support business decision-making and cross-functional alignment.
- Ensure promotional activities, innovation pipelines, and new product launches are accurately reflected in demand forecasts.
Inventory and Lifecycle Management
- Collaborate closely with Inventory Planners to optimize stock levels and ensure product availability.
- Support effective product lifecycle management, including new product introductions and product discontinuations.
- Proactively manage residual and slow-moving inventory in partnership with Commercial teams to minimize waste and working capital impact.
Performance Management and Continuous Improvement
- Own and improve key demand planning KPIs, including forecast accuracy, forecast bias, statistical forecasting performance, and forecast completeness.
- Prepare and manage regular reporting of demand planning performance metrics.
- Conduct root cause analyses of forecast variances and service issues, developing mitigation and improvement plans.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives within demand planning processes, tools, and ways of working.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work effectively with Commercial, Finance, Customer Supply Chain, Inventory Planning, and broader Supply Chain teams.
- Interpret key trends impacting channel and account performance and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
- Actively contribute to supply chain transformation projects, planning workstreams, and capability-building initiatives.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification in Supply Chain, Engineering, Finance, Operations Management, or a related field.
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in Supply Chain Planning, Demand Planning, Forecasting, or related Supply Chain functions.
- Strong understanding of end-to-end Supply Chain processes and planning principles.
- Experience working with forecasting and planning systems, including SAP and/or Advanced Planning Systems (APS).
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and strong data analysis capabilities.
- Good commercial awareness and financial acumen.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage complex datasets and processes.
- Ability to prioritize effectively and manage multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
- Fluent in English; proficiency in Dutch and/or French is considered an advantage.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience within FMCG, Consumer Health, Pharmaceutical, or similarly fast-paced environments.
- Experience participating in or leading Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) processes.
- Knowledge of statistical forecasting methodologies and demand planning best practices.
- Experience driving continuous improvement initiatives and process optimization.
- Familiarity with inventory management and product lifecycle planning.
Key Competencies
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
- Results-oriented with a continuous improvement mindset.
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing capabilities.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Ability to work autonomously in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
- Strong business acumen and customer-centric mindset.
- Resilience and adaptability in managing changing priorities.
Job Posting End Date
2026-11-18Equal Opportunities
Haleon are committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. It guides us in creating an inclusive culture, where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected - all in support of understanding and best serving the needs of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. It’s important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.
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