Senior Demand Planning Manager (m/f/d)

IronMaxx Nutrition; Hürth; Vor Ort; EUR 60.000 - 85.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading sports nutrition company in Nordrhein-Westfalen is looking for a Senior Demand Planning Manager to oversee operational demand planning and lead a team. This role involves managing inventory, coordinating with suppliers, and ensuring product availability. The ideal candidate has a degree in Business Administration or Supply Chain Management, strong analytical skills, and leadership experience. Excellent communication in English and German is required. Join the team to drive efficient supply chain processes and foster a collaborative culture.

Qualifikationen

• Several years of experience in Demand Planning or Supply Chain.
• Proven experience in leading teams (disciplinary and/or functional).
• Very good English skills, German skills are mandatory.

Aufgaben

• End-to-end responsibility for operational and tactical demand planning.
• Ensuring high product availability and efficient replenishment.
• Functional leadership of a Demand Planning / Buying team.

Kenntnisse

Analytical mindset

People skills

Leadership experience

Collaborative mindset

Ausbildung

Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, or Logistics

Tools

SAP Business One

Streamline

Jobbeschreibung

Overview

#BEcomeMAXX You enjoy turning forecasts into reality? You like structure, numbers, and processes — but you’re equally strong in leading people, creating clarity, and keeping teams aligned? Then this role is made for you.

As Senior Demand Planning Manager, you own the operational and tactical Demand Planning at IronMaxx. You translate centrally defined forecasts into stable demand, inventory, and ordering decisions, lead your team with clarity and empathy, and act as a close sparring partner to the Head of Forecasting.

While the final ownership of the forecast lies with the Head of Forecasting, you ensure that forecasts work in reality — operationally sound, executable, and stable across the supply chain.

Ready to perform? Your tasks with MAXXimum focus

Demand Planning Ownership

• End-to-end responsibility for operational and tactical demand planning, derived from the central forecast.
• Ensuring high product availability, stable inventory levels, and efficient replenishment.
• Creation, maintenance, and validation of demand, inventory, and ordering plans.
• Continuous monitoring of stock levels, safety stock, lead times, and sales performance.
• Early identification of risks such as shortages, overstocks, or supply bottlenecks.

Buying & Supplier Coordination

• Close operational collaboration with Purchasing and suppliers regarding orders, quantities, and delivery schedules.
• Tracking delivery dates, production status, and proactive escalation of delays or risks.
• Ensuring a smooth and reliable flow of goods across the supply chain.

Sparring & Cross-functional Collaboration

• Acting as a key sparring partner to the Head of Forecasting, providing operational feedback and plausibility checks on forecasts.
• Close alignment with Sales, Customer Success, Logistics, Production, and Procurement.
• Translating strategic forecast assumptions into executable operational actions.

Leadership & Team Development

• Functional and disciplinary leadership of a Demand Planning / Buying team.
• Establishing clear structures, priorities, and responsibilities within the team.
• Coaching, mentoring, and developing team members in their professional growth.
• Fostering a collaborative, solution-oriented, and people-focused team culture.

Processes, Tools & Continuous Improvement

• Hands-on use and further development of demand planning and ERP tools (e.g. SAP Business One, Streamline).
• Identification and implementation of operational improvements in demand planning, replenishment, and buying processes.
• Contribution to scenario analyses, data evaluations, and cross-functional process optimization projects.

Your Skillset - As Strong As Our Protein

• Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, or a comparable qualification.
• Several years of experience in Demand Planning, Supply Chain, Purchasing, or related fields, ideally with leadership responsibility.
• Strong analytical and structured mindset with high numerical affinity.
• Proven experience in leading teams (disciplinary and/or functional).
• Strong people skills: clear, empathetic, reliable, and collaborative
• Confident handling of ERP and demand planning tools (e.g. SAP, Streamline).
• Solution-oriented, hands-on, and execution-driven working style.
• Very good English skills, German skills are mandatory

About Us

Quality & Innovations from IronMaxx® Nutrition

Premium sports nutrition - Designed in Germany!

Producing the best sports nutrition worldwide is the goal of IronMaxx®. The production of highly efficient sports nutrition of the best quality and the constant further development of our products led to the award of the State Prize for Excellent Food Quality by the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. However, this is no reason for us to rest on our laurels - we are constantly working with the greatest passion to offer you supplements that inspire, work and taste great! The integration of the latest study results and the evaluation of practical field research in cooperation with professional sports clubs and our customers have led to permanent innovation in the development of new sports and fitness nutrition at IronMaxx® Nutrition since the company was founded in 2004.

In addition to the basics of sports nutrition in the areas of strength/endurance, muscle building and diet, this includes effective nutritional supplements for health and prevention, intelligent new combinations of active ingredients and improved dosage forms, such as our Tricaps®. In the area of protein products, for example, IronMaxx® has set a milestone in the evolution of the latest sports nutrition products with the development of water-based protein powders in over 31 flavors. The sweet spread with the world's highest protein content, IronMaxx® Protein Creme, also comes from us.

Designed in Germany - as a German sports nutrition manufacturer, IronMaxx® is also committed to outstanding quality and seamless quality control. High performance - the goal is the goal. Well-known professional clubs, such as the eight-time German ice hockey champions, the Kölner Haie, or the traditional handball club VfL Gummersbach have relied for years on the efficient sports nutrition from IronMaxx® and on our expertise in the use and mode of action of nutritional supplements.

While in many areas of life the path is often proclaimed as the goal, our customers usually have a very clear idea of their dream body and its desired performance. This passion to achieve their personal goal is something we share with all our partners and customers. IronMaxx® products have therefore become an integral part of the product range of many European fitness studios, wholesalers, pharmacies and body stores in recent years due to their high quality.