Demand Planning Manager

Job Description

Are you interested in a demand planning manager role supporting the LEGO Group with its forecasting and facilitation of a leading S&OP processes?

This role reports to the Central European Supply Chain Organisation and works in collaboration with the broader global business units.

During this exciting phase of growth and transformation, your work will directly support integral supply chain decisions.

Your technical mastery of demand planning makes you a trusted partner to the Operational and Commercial Teams. You will own the role within the S&OP processes, providing valuable insight and analysis to support gap closing initiatives. The accuracy of your forecasts has a direct impact on supply chain efficiency and product availability

Core Responsibilities:

• Facilitate and prepare Demand Planning review meetings with Marketing, Customer Development, and Sales teams, including monthly Demand Review meetings.

• Act as the guardian of S&OP leadership behaviours.

• Ensure forecasting assumptions are clearly understood and tracked.

• Maintain productive working relationships with cross-functional team members, including BU Leadership and global/regional demand planning communities.

• Deliver an accurate demand plan based on assumptions and fact-based forecast outputs.

• Develop forecasts using insights from teams and statistical models, driving benchmark and topline analysis.

• Accurately forecast Consumer Sales and Shipments to Customers.

• Monitor BU performance and initiate corrective actions based on findings.

• Ensure demand plans reflect marketing, product launch timings, and promotional activities accurately.

• Align Demand Planning processes in the BU with global standard processes.

Do You Have What It Takes?

• Considerable experience working in a consumer goods environment, ideally as a demand or supply planner.

• Strong business sense, communication, and presentation skills.

• Stakeholder management skills and ability to master complexity.

• Communicate complex ideas simply.

• Experience with automated tools and dashboards (PowerBI, Microsoft Excel, Power Query, VBA).

• Assimilate multiple data inputs to determine likely outcomes.

• Effective written and verbal communication skills.

• Demonstrable influencing skills.

• Balance local priorities with functional targets.

• Exceptional analytical skills, ability to identify and root-cause issues, delivering insights and fact-based recommendations.

• Deadline-driven and results-oriented.

• Preferential experience in supply chain and commercial environments.

• Previous demand or supply planning experience is preferred.

• Experience working with people across multiple functions.

• Experience in a matrix organization is desirable.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

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