Demand Planner (d/f/m)

Essity is a leading global hygiene and healthcare company. We are committed to improving the quality of life through high-quality hygiene and healthcare solutions. We sell our products and solutions in around 150 countries under many strong brands, including the global market leaders TENA and Tork, as well as well-known brands such as Jobst, Leukoplast, Libero, Libresse, Lotus, Nosotras, Saba, Tempo, Vinda, and Zewa.

For our Supply Chain department in Mannheim, we are looking for a Demand Planner to support our team as soon as possible.

• Optimize forecast accuracy for assigned products, markets, and customers to positively impact service, capital, and cost.

• Actively drive continuous development and best practice sharing and use advanced analytics tools to understand forecast development.

• Master and improve statistical forecasting and enrich forecasts in close collaboration with assigned markets or brand counterparts.

• Participate in the S&OP process, prepare required information for the assigned products, markets, customers, and be able to present.

• Own demand planning coordination and related activities cross-functionally, foster open communication and act according to company vision and values.

• Monitor demand trends and reconcile these with supply outlook considering diverse bottlenecks across the value chain.

Even if not all of the following points apply to you, we would be happy to get to know you and talk about the possibility of working with you!

• University degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Logistics, or related with a focus on supply chain, or degree in a commercial education with several years of relevant experience.

• Min. 5 years of relevant experience in an adequate position.

• Excellent IT (for example SAP APO/SAP R3/SAP 4HANA) and analytical skills, solid MS Office knowledge, enhanced skills in MS Excel.

• Excellent conceptual and analytical skills with an affinity for statistical methods.

• Very good communication skills, presentation skills, and strong ability to react flexibly to different workloads in an international environment.

• Fluent in German and English; any other language is a plus.

The benefits listed refer to the primary location Mannheim. If you want to start at another location, these may vary. This also applies to a non-tariff position.

• Compensation & Benefits
  Compensation according to IGBCE paper tariff, yearly special payment, holiday allowance and bonus, pension schemes, anniversary bonus, child allowance, Corporate Benefits & other employee benefits.

• Work-Life-Balance
  Hybrid working model, flexible working hours, overtime compensation, 38h week, 30 days of vacation, future amount (can be used as 5 days of vacation, Lease-a-bike, or payout), lifetime working time account.

• Learning & Development
  Structured onboarding, training opportunities such as digital learning platform, coaching & mentoring as possible part of individual development plan, participation in professional conferences and fairs.

• Health & Well-being
  Discounted fitness membership, health and well-being month, Walk-and-Talk Meetings, nilo.health & mindfulness courses, "PME Familienservice", employee surveys.

• Team & Collaboration
  People culture, communities & networks, co-working spaces, leadership guidelines, canteen.

• Mobility
  Public transport allowance, bicycle parking, free car parking, e-charging stations.

At Essity, our Beliefs & Behaviours (Care, Collaboration, Courage, and Commitment) is the foundation for our inclusive culture and as such something we are living on an everyday basis. With a purpose of Breaking Barriers to Well-being, diversity, equity & inclusion is established in our core.

We are committed against discrimination on the basis of color, ethnicity, migration history, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, caregiving responsibilities, disability, chronic illness, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, and other. We explicitly welcome applications from people who are structurally, institutionally, intersectionally discriminated.

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