Wholesale Demand Planner - Supply Chain EMEA (m/w/d)

If you were in the Wholesale Demand Planner - EMEA role now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:

- Developing and maintaining a rolling 12–18-month demand forecast at the regional and account level, incorporating orderbook data, customer commitments, and statistical models

- Generating baseline statistical forecasts and reconciling top-down financial targets with bottom-up SKU-level projections

- Evaluating multiple demand signals, including orderbook activity, sell-through performance, customer point-of-sale data (as available), and market trends to continuously improve forecast quality

- Participating in the monthly Integrated Business Planning (IBP) cycle to build and align a consensus demand plan across regional and global stakeholders

- Owning forecast accuracy and bias, driving continuous improvement in forecast performance

- Driving forecast governance processes, ensuring assumptions, risks and forecast changes are documented, aligned and communicated across stakeholders

- Partnering cross-functionally with Merchandise Planning, Supply Planning, Inventory Planning, Account Services, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), and Commercial to align the demand plan with business strategy

Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:

- Improving forecast accuracy through enhanced statistical modeling, process discipline, and tighter integration of account demand signals

- Developing scenario and risk planning frameworks to surface demand risks and supply constraints ahead of key buy decisions

- Strengthening the connection between new product forecasting, lifecycle management, and regional assortment planning

Are you our next Wholesale Demand Planner - EMEA?

- You have a bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, or a related field

- You have 3-5+ years of experience in Demand Planning, Merchandise Planning, or Forecasting, preferably within a retail or wholesale environment

- You have strong demand forecasting experience, including statistical forecasting knowledge and hands-on experience building baseline and account-level forecasts

- You have strong analytical and problem-solving capability, with the ability to identify demand risks and translate them into actionable mitigation steps

- You have advanced Excel and data manipulation skills, with the ability to reconcile complex data sets and translate outputs into clear business recommendations

- You have a strong understanding of retail KPIs and how they connect to demand planning decisions across the wholesale channel

- You have experience with new product forecasting and lifecycle management

- You have experience with advanced planning tools such as o9, Blue Yonder, Anaplan, Oracle (preferred)

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