Demand Planner

Job Title: Demand Planner

Brands: Revlon

Reports To: Demand Planning Manager

Location: Head Office (Hybrid working 3 days a week in office)

At Revlon, we’re passionate about all things beauty and inspiring women to ‘Live Boldly’. Since the launch of the first opaque nail enamel in 1932, Revlon has provided our consumers with high quality products that deliver sophisticated glamour. Today, Revlon's diversified portfolio of brands is sold in more than 150 countries around the world and has some of the world’s most iconic and desired brands in colour cosmetics, skin care, hair care, hair color and fragrances.

At Revlon, we are equally passionate about our team! We celebrate success, invest in health and wellbeing initiatives as well as professional development programs designed to unlock potential.

If you share our passion for beauty and would love to work for an iconic beauty brand, then consider this wonderful permanent opportunity within our team.

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JOB SUMMARY

This position is responsible for creating and executing Demand Plans that will support the company’s sales goals and strategies. Creating collaborative relationships across the sales, marketing and supply chain organizations is critical to the success of this position and this position is critical to the success of the company.

The Demand Planner will work in the Demand Planning team supporting the manager in establishing the best Demand Plan: Monthly for the mid long term (typically 18m out) and weekly for the next 2-3m (inside the time fence). He/she will also work to establish the Demand Planning department as the “go to” point for any topic related to expected forthcoming demand. This role requires strong business-data analysis skills, enabling the person to understand which are the relevant factors influencing demand .

• Hold profitable conversations with the commercial and Marketing teams (challenging them required).
• Communicating sales projections to Finance.
• Run an efficient continuous improvement by understanding which assumptions have been generating the biggest demand plan error and bias.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSABILITIES

Generation of Volume and value forecasting through executing the demand planning components of the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process. Incorporate :

• Sales/CBD inputs.
• Marketing intelligence for new product launches and discontinuations.
• Historical Sales from available data sources or/and Point of Sales (POS) information..
• Business consensus on volumes.
• Analyze and review sales, inventories, POS, consumption trends and monitor sales achievements to proactively identify issues and propose changes to the forecast and/or improvements.
• Liaise with Marketing for new product launches and discontinuations. Evaluate assumptions (pre and post launch) – new product forecast, shade ranking, cannibalization..
• Liaise with Sales to determine pipe forecast requirements for new product launches.

Coordinate and maintain demand planning databases and system. Understand and apply statistical models, depending on historical patterns and horizons using exception based planning. Understand past and future assumptions, risks and opportunities, and clean the sales data and build base forecast while keeping track of sales and marketing activity logs

• Prepare and distribute the various demand planning reports that support the business operation.
• Report, analyze and deliver KPI´s (Forecast Bias & Accuracy, Customer Service KPI’s, Stock-on-hand days, Business Waste)
• Highlight gaps in the demand plan and make sure that necessary actions are taken by related stakeholders
• Document, review, and evaluate qualitative and quantitative demand planning assumptions and provide feedback for improvement. Participate and engage in continuous improvement efforts to drive forecast accuracy.
• Manage demand changes during the time fence (frozen period) with business and supply planning to agree on a common plan.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelors degree (MSc Engineering or similar)
• 3-5 years of experience in supply chain, at least 2y in Demand Planning
• SAP, Manugistics or APO
• Excel mastery (pivot tables, vlookups essential as a bare minimum).
• APICS is a plus

Skills

• Strong analytical capability and attention to detail
• Willingness to work difficult tasks through to completion
• Ability to collaborate with other departments to reach a common goal
• Strong understanding of Supply Chain principles
• Desire to learn and grow in the position and company
• Italian, Spanish and French would be considered as an asset.
• Ability to work in conditions which include multiple and sometimes conflicting priorities in tight deadlines

Succeeding Together at Revlon Appropriate Workplace Behaviors

• Ability to manage the development of multi category brand forecasts for regular business and special events.
• Ability to direct prompt constructive action based on forecast deviations.
• Creative problem solving skills.
• Strong leadership and consensus management.
• Proven ability to analyze and consolidate large volumes of data, develop a fact-based point of view, and communicate it effectively and convincingly.

Benefits

· 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays)

· 1 Paid volunteering day per year

· Birthday day off

· Wellness Friday's

· Staff Discount

· Enhanced Employer pension contributions

· Access to health benefits (cash plan / health insurance)

Revlon Diversity & Inclusion Mission Statement:

At Revlon, we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workforce that we can all be proud of. We aim to cultivate a bias-free environment in which all our teammates feel empowered to

be 100% themselves. We strive to promote an educational narrative to help our

employees learn and grow as individuals and enable them to challenge inequality

in all aspects of their lives. We are here to hold our business accountable,

drive positive change and finish what we have started. The future of Revlon is

diverse.

*Please note we are not engaging in recruitment agency support for this role.