{"id":3595415,"url":"https://alion.io/job/mars-demand-and-distribution-planning-manager-cee-fmx","title":"Demand and Distribution Planning Manager CEE (f/m/x)","company":{"id":94439,"name":"Mars","domain":"mars.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/mars","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":80,"open_postings":10,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":17,"computed_at":"2026-11-02T06:13:15Z"}},"role":"Administrative","role_family":"Administrative","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Warsaw, Poland","Poland"],"countries":["PL"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":25000,"max_usd":59000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":2376},"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Microsoft Excel","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-16T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-16","last_verified_at":"2026-11-03T02:03:01Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":48,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":48},"description":"Job Description:\nDemand and Distribution Planning Manager CEE (f/m/x)\nRoyal Canin, Supply Chain Department\nLocation: Niepołomice or Warsaw\n***Hybrid(upto50%remote)***\nAre you excited by the challenge of balancing customer service, product availability, inventory, and forecast accuracy across multiple markets? Do you thrive in a fast-paced international environment where strategic thinking, leadership, and operational excellence come together? Join us as a Demand & Distribution Planning Manager and take ownership of both demand and distribution planning across the CEE cluster, leading a talented team and driving end-to-end supply chain performance. In this highly visible role, you will shape planning decisions that directly impact customer experience, business growth, inventory efficiency, and supply chain resilience.\nKey Responsibilities\nLead the end-to-end Demand & Distribution Planning agenda across the cluster, ensuring alignment between customer demand, inventory strategy, and product availability.\n\nOwn the demand planning process, driving forecast accuracy, data quality, operational efficiency, and continuous improvement.\n\nLead and facilitate the Demand Management Review (DMR) process within S&OP+, ensuring alignment of volume forecasts across Sales, Marketing, and Supply Chain teams.\n\nEnsure optimal inventory levels and replenishment strategies across the regional distribution network to deliver service, cost, and cash objectives.\n\nLead distribution planning activities and proactively manage supply-demand imbalances, mitigating potential risks to customer service.\n\nPartner closely with European factories, local Supply Chain teams, and key stakeholders to continuously improve end-to-end supply and distribution performance.\n\nAct as the functional expert and key user for planning systems, supporting system enhancements, digital transformation initiatives, and future capability development.\n\nBuild, develop, and inspire a high-performing planning team, fostering engagement, capability growth, and succession planning.\n\nCandidate Profile\nAt least 8 years of experience in Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Distribution Planning, or broader Supply Chain Management, preferably within the FMCG industry.\n\nProven experience leading and developing teams in a complex, international environment.\n\nStrong expertise in demand forecasting, inventory management, distribution planning, and end-to-end supply chain processes.\n\nExperience leading S&OP, Integrated Business Planning, or similar cross-functional planning processes.\n\nDemonstrated success in driving process improvements, transformation initiatives, and operational excellence.\n\nAdvanced analytical capabilities and strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and supply chain planning systems.\n\nStrong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build collaborative relationships across functions, markets, and manufacturing sites.\n\nMaster's degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field preferred; APICS CPIM, CPF, or equivalent certification is a plus. Experience with Navision, 1NAV, FuturMaster, or similar planning platforms, as well as additional language skills relevant to the cluster, will be considered an advantage\n\nWhat can you expect from Mars?\nContract of employment.\n\nAttractive financial conditions with Business Bonus and Christmas Bonus.\n\nWe will also look after your safety and well-being by offering you rich benefits package including life insurance, private medical care, Employee Assistance Program fully covered by Mars, MultiSport card.\n\nSubsidized meals.\n\nMonthly allotment of food for your dog or cat.\n\nExtra savings scheme to support You in long perspective.\n\nSupport in career building through personalized development plan.\n\nShop with attractive discounts on our products that Your family and friend are going to love.\n\nPossibility to participate in volunteering initiatives during working hours.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3978,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"master","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Life insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Poland","iso":"PL","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Pet Food, Supplies & Care","Confectionery"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-02T02:43:34Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":12,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.424,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":47,"expected_fill_days":17,"reasons":["conf:1","stale_co","velocity","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-02T06:13:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/mars-demand-and-distribution-planning-manager-cee-fmx","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/mars-demand-and-distribution-planning-manager-cee-fmx.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-03T05:02:18Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":6802,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-04T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":94439},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=94439"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fmars-demand-and-distribution-planning-manager-cee-fmx"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fmars-demand-and-distribution-planning-manager-cee-fmx"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fmars-demand-and-distribution-planning-manager-cee-fmx"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/mars-demand-and-distribution-planning-manager-cee-fmx\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fmars-demand-and-distribution-planning-manager-cee-fmx"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3595415}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"mars.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3595415},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}