S&OP Specialist

Do you enjoy turning complex data into clear choices that help VELUX use resources wisely? As S&OP Specialist, you will work across functions to develop scenarios and recommendations that support senior management in making key planning decisions.

Meet your future team

You will join Global Planning – S&OP & Planning Excellence, a team that collaborates cross-functionally with Marketing, Regional Management, Supply and Finance to support connected planning processes across VELUX. The team consists of six colleagues based in Skjern and Kolding.

The S&OP Specialist is a new role in the team, introduced to ensure better alignment across functions in the planning processes.

What we offer

As S&OP Specialist, you will support the Global S&OP process by consolidating market input, preparing scenarios and creating decision material and recommendations for senior management. You will bring structure to S&OP preparation and ensure that agreed decisions are translated into clear planning requirements.

As part of your onboarding, you will be introduced and trained in the current Demand Planning processes and tools to build your understanding of the VELUX supply chain and planning processes.

More specifically your tasks will be to:

- Ensure that worst/best case sales scenarios is agreed and aligned with the regional management in key markets and understand their assumptions, risk and opportunities.
- Support the global Demand Planning Network in coordinating market input, sales uncertainties, campaigns, allocation requirements and scenarios.
- Plan and facilitate Pre-S&OP meetings and prepare topics that require decisions.
- Develop and evaluate scenarios with Sales, Supply, Purchasing, and Finance, including implications for service, inventory, capacity, production, costs and financial performance.
- Prepare clear decision material for Global S&OP meetings, outlining alternatives, business trade-offs, risks and required decisions.
- Document decisions and follow up on actions, deadlines and outcomes, while translating agreed decisions into input for Master Planning.

This role can be based in Skjern, Kolding, Østbirk or Hørsholm and you can expect minimal traveling in Denmark and abroad.

What you will bring into the organization

You bring experience from a planning-related role and understand how decisions on demand, supply, inventory and financial priorities connect across the value chain and have translated that understanding into measurable business outcomes.

You combine curiosity and structure with a commercial mindset and business acumen; you can challenge assumptions constructively and connect planning decisions to customer needs, operational trade-offs and financial performance.

Moreover, we expect that you:

- Bring experience from Demand Planning, S&OP, Integrated Business Planning, Supply Planning, Master Planning, Sales Forecasting or Supply Chain Analysis in fast-moving consumer goods.
- Have extensive understanding of S&OP and end-to-end supply chain planning, including how planning decisions affect service, capacity, inventory and production.
- Have advanced Excel skills, experience using Power BI for analysis and reporting, and familiarity with SAP BW/BWP data structures and data extraction.
- Have the financial understanding needed to assess business cases and quantify the implications of scenarios for costs, inventory, revenue and overall business performance.
- Can establish constructive working relationships with stakeholders across functions and levels to ensure that decisions, assumptions, responsibilities and actions are transparent and followed through.
- Can translate data-based scenarios into simple, clear visualisations that enable decision makers to compare options, understand key trade-offs and make informed decisions.

Ready to apply?

Learn more about the VELUX Group online at www.velux.com where you can read more about working at our company and what to expect of our recruitment process.

We look forward to receiving your application and CV as soon as possible. We are conducting interviews on an ongoing basis until we have the right match.

All inquiries will be treated confidentially.

About VELUX

In the VELUX Group, we offer you a world of opportunities and the chance to create a bright future. From the forefront of the roof window category, we enable those who live, work and play under the roof transform their spaces and live a healthier everyday life with more daylight and fresh air.

The VELUX Group is an international, family-owned business with strong financial roots and each year we can create real impact by reinvesting in society, our employees and planet through our foundations. With 20 production companies in 12 countries and sales companies in 37 countries, our products are widely available. We employ around 12,000 people, and our company is headquartered in Denmark. Alongside the rest of our values, "courage" and "mutual respect" define our actions every day and how we wish to contribute to the world.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At VELUX, we believe in fostering a diverse workplace for everyone to thrive, develop, and perform at their best, and where you feel welcome, respected, and valued. We are committed to providing equal opportunities for all - whether you are applying for a role or already a part of VELUX. That means we recruit, hire, train, and promote people based on their skills and potential without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, neurodiversity, disability, protected veteran status, national origin, sexual orientation or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. We value diversity and strive to ensure that our employment decisions are fair and inclusive, focusing only on what truly matters: your qualifications and how you can contribute to our shared mission and success.