Senior Demand Planner

Senior Demand Planner

Fixed Term Contract / SECONDMENT (OCTOBER 2024)

When you look at L’Oréal, what do you see? If all you see is lipstick, look again and experience the Freedom to go Beyond the ordinary. That’s the beauty of L’Oréal. We operate in 150 countries on 5 continents. With 36 international brands and 86,000 employees worldwide, we’re well on our way to fulfilling our common purpose: to create beauty that moves the world.

By 2030 we want to capture over another 1 billion consumers around the world. How? By creating cosmetic products which meet the infinite diversity of consumers beauty needs and desires, and always through digital innovation. Not only that, but taking our sustainability goals seriously; moving us to a more inclusive and sustainable society, for every generation.

Our brands, dynamic culture, and always being our own challenger mean that we offer freedom and opportunity you won’t get anywhere else. 

If you want the Freedom to go Beyond, we’ll see you at L’Oréal.

You will

The Senior Demand Planner will be the key pillar and point of contact across key stakeholder functions. 

You will shape the future of Demand Planning and the S&OP Process, lead and develop the Demand Planning Team and drive improvements to customer experience, simplicity/pulse indexes and sharing beauty with all initiatives.

•    Lead and develop the sales forecast process for your division, ensuring best practice, audit compliance, stakeholder engagement and the needs of the business are met

•    Validation meeting chair and lead the monthly forecast/financial trend alignment meeting with Managing Director, Finance Director and Supply Chain Director.

•    Recruit for, develop and lead a team of Demand Planners. 

•    Define a 3 year vision for Demand Planning team within your division, establishing a roadmap on how to get there with timings. 

•    Drive team and influence the wider division/L’Oréal community towards achieving vision, monitor and update stakeholders regularly on progress.

•    Lead team, ensuring targets are met on Forecast Accuracy and Bias, SKU count (Finished Goods and POS), Stock £ and Excess and Obsoletes £. Ensure root cause is understood, action plans are in place and the business is mobilized where brands are not at target. Pro-actively flag and manage risks.

•    Act as an ambassador for supply chain within the division, supporting activities to enhance customer experience, improve simplicity/pulse indexes and drive sharing beauty with all initiatives

You have:

•    Ability to engage and positively influence internal & external stakeholders.  Ability to manage upwards.

•    Experience in S&OP planning. Experience in demand planning is an advantage

•    Strong understanding of the building blocks and trends that influence the construction of a sales forecast

•    Ability to effectively communicate with stakeholders at all levels, and simplify complex messages.  

•    Excellent working knowledge of Excel. FuturMaster and SAP are an advantage

•    Experience in demand or business planning systems an advantage