The Demand Planner is key to achieving not only the Customer Service Level targets for the Business but plays a key role in the company's overall business results. The responsibilities of this position include, but not limited to:

The execution of the Demand Planning process focuses on collaborative "bottom-up" forecast with involved functions (Marketing, Sales, Finance) and Customers.Continuously improve customer service  level (CSL) and simultaneously reduce finished goods inventory, minimize write off to achieve targets, by improving forecast accuracy while supporting categories growth.

Drive implementation of GPS process within the company for specific assigned category.Effective interaction with Supply Points, Providers, Distridutors’/wholesalers, Co-Packers are essential.

In this role, you'll work closely and cross functionally with all the teams to deliver key business KPI's as well as drive projects for harmonized ways of working and continuous improvement

 Responsibilities and duties

• Design and generate the statistical forecast (weekly / monthly) based on historical sales, activation, market trends, seasonality, and inventory target levels.
•  Manage the distributor’s orders: plant based and dairy products (MTO and MTS model), help the distributors to optimize the orders, order management with the plants, communication with the plants, carriers booking and management to ensure on time loading from the plant and on time delivery to the local distribution center and/or to distributors.
•  Continuously improving forecasting techniques, methodology and tools. Establish and utilize best methods statistical models and software tools) in creating forecasts and respective inventory targets
•  Make recommended adjustments to forecast and inventory targets based on changes in demand and market trends.
• Manage inventory targets (including safety stock levels).
• Make recommended SKU rationalization initiatives

Academic qualifications & experience

• Minimum 2 years’ experience in similar position (demand & Supply planning)
• University degree in Supply chain management/business/ finance
• Fluent in Greek & English & computer literate
• Excellent MS Office (Especially excellent EXCEL, extensive spreadsheet analysis and strong mathematical abilities
• Experience in demand planning, master scheduling, forecasting tools, methodologies, processes in sales, marketing, operations, finance, supply chain or procurement.
• Strong analytical abilities

As a world leading food company DANONE stands for international success. Around 104000 employees work on all five continents in the three Danone business areas Essential Dairy & Plant-Based, Specialized Nutrition and Water  on one corporate mission: “Bringing health through food to as many people as possible”.

We want to invite people to join the movement for a healthier world. We recognize the power people have to impact the world through their daily choices. Each time we eat and drink, we vote for the world we want to live in. We believe a healthy body needs healthy food and healthy food needs a healthy planet: this is what our new signature One Planet One Health embodies.

Do things your way. The way you work, the way you develop, the way you progress, it’s all up to you.

Working here you’ll need to enjoy a fast-pace, complexity and it can get a little challenging. But it’s packed with opportunities. You’ll work with some of the best-known brands in the world and we absolutely guarantee that you can just be yourself.

Be innovative and entrepreneurial and the impact you could make might just amaze you. Join our movement for a healthier world. One Planet OneHealth BYYOU.

We offer you a culture, where you’ll be welcomed to bring in ideas and take initiative you’ll learn from colleagues highly committed and passionate about what they do. We believe in learning something new each day as it means you keep growing every day!

We believe everyone has talent, something which comes natural to you. Your uniqueness is something which brings both excellence as well as energizes you.In Greece we are Certified Great Place to Work and B Corp.Danone is committed to create and live an inclusive & diverse environment, which will drive our growth as a business, as teams, as members of communities & as individuals. Valuing diversity is recognizing and respecting human differences and similarities. Our aim is to ensure that all employees and applicants are given equal opportunity and that our organization is representative of our consumers and society.We commit to foster an inclusive working environment where we celebrate all types of diversity, both visible and invisible, which includes age, race, gender, nationality, disability, background, education, religion, beliefs, thinking style, perspectives and sexual orientation. We believe that our differences will make the difference.

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