Demand Planner

Lactalis Group, the world leader in dairy, is a family-owned business with more than 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals worldwide, committed to providing healthy and delicious dairy products that bring people together every day. The group is based in the north-west of France and has a turnover of about 20 billion Euro. In Scandinavia, Lactalis own three operative organizations: Skånemejerier, Lactalis Scandinavia and Castelli. These three organizations collaborate closely to provide the Scandinavian market with high quality dairy products.

Skånemejerier consists primarily of production and sales of dairy products and fruit drinks. The brands we are responsible for on the Swedish market are, among others, Skånemejerier, Bravo, Allerum, Salakis, Hjordnära, Åsens, Galbani, President, Castelli and Lindahls. Skånemejerier has four production sites and approximately 700 employees.

Our Demand Planners are important partners and stakeholders in the IBM (IBP) process through which we manage and steer our Company.

In the role, you will be part of our planning organization that consists of 14 employees who work closely with other departments such as sales, industrial, marketing, customer service and milk collection. The planning department is divided into three parts; Demand Planning, Supply Planning and Material Planning.

In this role your main responsibility will be the volume forecast for given segments of products and to ensure that the rest of the organization has the information and plans they need to fulfill the Customer demand.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

We expect you to be a dynamic person that takes initiative wherever you see that it is needed. However, below you will find the key responsibilities that the role of Demand Planner holds.

• Forecasting sales volumes and service level on portfolio of products. The forecast you are working with in close collaboration with the responsible KAM for each Customer.
• The main KPIs you will be followed up on, and hence should guide your decisions and actions, are service level, waste, logistic costs, forecast accuracy and bias.
• You are expected to be a driver within our IBM process, ensuring alignment between all company departments. This includes identifying and addressing gaps between forecast, budget and outcome.
• You will prepare decision material and presentations for the IBM-process and its various forums.
• We expect you to participate in projects and drive initiatives to contribute to the improvement of our processes and performance.
• You will often be asked to conduct ad-hoc analysis to support both operational and commercial decision making.
• You will get the responsibility to represent the supply chain team in product launches and phase out projects of products in your segment.
• Together with the team (e.g. supply planners and material planners), you will be responsible for ensuring supply at the lowest possible cost.
• As responsible for the forecast of segments, you are also expected to maintain demand planning parameters and certain master data in the system for those products.
• If the relevant KPIs do not reach the target we have set for ourselves, you will be expected to autonomously conduct root cause analysis and to drive the identified actions for improvements on a continuous basis
• As in all other companies, we support each other. Therefore, during vacation periods, you might get the opportunity to help with supply planning for parts of your portfolio during a limited period of time.

Profile we are looking for

We are mainly focused on the character and ability of the person coming into the team which means that we do not have strict requirements for what the profile of our ideal candidate looks like. However, we do have some points that we see that would be beneficial in order for our new colleague to quickly come into the team and start to contribute.

• University degree, preferably within the area of Supply Chain
• At least a few years of experience as a Demand Planner or relevant positions

• Experience from working in an established S&OP / IBP process.

• You have experience from working in a demand planning system, like Futurmaster or equivalent

• You are a skilled user of the MS Office suite. Our primary focus is skills and experience working with Excel but it is important to handle the full suite.
• You are used to working in BI tools such as QlickSense, Qlickview, Cognos, PowerBI etc.
• Knowledge in ERP (M3 or similar systems)
• Good at networking and establishing relationships with a broad range of stakeholders (e.g. Customers, executives, operations and suppliers)
• Fluent oral and written skills in Swedish and English

Working at Skånemejerier/Lactalis

In this role as Demand Planner you´ll have a great opportunity to work together with an engaged and knowledgeable team.

To be a part of Lactalis Group, a multinational dairy company, means many interesting dialogues and contacts around the world that enables a vast range of career opportunities if you are performing well. The group invests a lot in employee competence development and through the group the employees are given access to a network of colleagues worldwide.

At Lactalis, our core values of AMBITION, ENGAGEMENT and SIMPLICITY are at the heart of everything we do.

Contact and application

In this recruitment process Skånemejerier is cooperating with HEIM Executive. Please apply already today, we´ll interview continuously during the process.

For further information about the position, please contact Recruitment Consultant Louise Edeheim, HEIM Executive, louise.edeheim@heimexecutive.se.

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