Demand Planning Director Health & Medical (Global)

Essity B 296.5 (-1 SEK) on 02-Mar-2025 17:30

Demand Planning Director Health & Medical (Global)

Munich, Germany
Gothenburg; Stockholm; Milan area, Italy; Paris, France; Hamburg (HB); Amsterdam; Hamburg (STS)

Global Demand Planning Director (d/f/m)

Essity is a leading global hygiene and health company that is improving well-being and shaping a healthier future for all. With 36,000 employees and sales in 150 countries, what we do makes a difference in people’s lives, every day.

About the Role

The Global Demand Planning Director will lead the demand planning function of the Health and Medical business unit by driving best-in-class processes and ways of working to develop unbiased demand-led planning. This role will create the path and orchestrate the roadmap to lead Essity into achieving world-class, value-creating demand forecast, enabling robust S&OP and solid IBP.

We’re looking for people who embody our values, aren’t afraid to challenge, innovate, experiment, and move at a fast pace. We’re always looking for ways to improve our products and ourselves. If this is you, we’d love to talk.

What You Will Do

1. Build and Develop the Business Unit Demand Planning Team
   Lead, drive, and develop a Global Demand Planning Community (approx. 30 FTE) of which the statistical team is based in Germany and enrichment is done by demand planners located in the markets around the globe. They will be part of the organization under the BU Global Demand Planning Director.
2. Define and orchestrate demand planning capabilities, in cooperation with the Global Essity Demand function, for the full demand planner community. Taking into account the digital transformation to SAP/S4 and use of AI, secure the importance of building and developing a team with a «future-ready» set of capabilities, who is equipped to leverage future advances in SCP technology.
3. Provide expert guidance in statistical forecasting and overall Demand Planning, sharing best practices and building the required capability in the organization.
4. Drive Demand Planning Best Practices within the BU
   Continue to lead the transformation of current processes and ways of working to further expand standardized processes across the BU and geographies. All in line with the global template.
5. Lead, implement and continuously improve the statistical forecast methods and generation including automation/machine learning.
6. Ensure the delivery of an advanced forecasting capability built around robust segmentation, statistical modelling, and selective enrichment processes.
7. Partner Cross-Functionally with BU Stakeholders to Ensure Demand Planning Adds Business Value
   Be an ambassador and trainer in demand planning for all relevant stakeholders in commercial.
8. Be the Voice of Demand planning for the BU and play an active role in S&OP and long-range planning processes to develop and drive a consensual plan that delivers business objectives.
9. Define, plan, and execute the IBP roadmaps in the BU, ensuring alignment with the overall business objectives.
10. Contribute to end-to-end logistics/supply chain strategy.
11. Drive both an operational and strategic agenda while acting as a change agent to enable a step change in Demand work processes efficiency and effectiveness throughout the supply chain.
12. Contribute to Shaping Essity’s Demand Planning Future
    Actively participate in global demand planning networks across all Essity BU’s and geographies.
13. Work together with the Global Demand Planning Process Owner (organized in Global Supply Chain) defining demand planning work-processes and deploying them consistently across the BU.
14. Accelerate the use of digital tools.

Who You Are

1. University degree preferably in Supply Chain Management or a related field.
2. Proven international leadership experience gained through a minimum of 10-15 years in Supply Chain leadership roles, ideally in FMCG/MedTech industry.
3. Excellent change management skills and Supply Chain transformation experience within a matrix organization.
4. Proven experience in Integrated Business Planning (IBP) implementation.
5. Solid S&OP leadership experience.
6. Very good knowledge and experience in Supply Chain/Demand and Forecasting process, related trends and “state of the art” best practices.
7. Excellent communication and training skills, with solid stakeholder management and influencing skills.
8. Willing to travel 30% of your time.

The position can be based in any of the large Essity offices in Europe.

What We Can Offer You

At Essity, we believe every career is as unique as the individual and empower employees to reach their full potential in a winning culture motivated by a powerful purpose.
Collaborative and caring Work Environment | Empowerment | Job Impact | Work with a Powerful Purpose | Individual Learning and Development | Health & Safety | Social Responsibility | Innovation

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