Senior Demand Planner & S&OP Lead

Teknos; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Teknos invites a skilled Demand Planner to own the rolling demand forecast for selected customer groups and lead the team as a functional expert for Demand Planning systems and data. You will work with Sales, Product Management, Production Planning, Sourcing and IT to translate commercial input into a robust, fact-based forecast.

Join Teknos to shape the future of Demand Planning and S&OP across an international manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• Approximately five or more years of hands-on experience in Demand Planning, preferably in an international manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated experience working within an S&OP or IBP process.
• Experience independently managing a demand forecast and facilitating forecast reviews with commercial stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills and practical knowledge of forecasting, forecast performance and root-cause analysis.
• Advanced Excel skills, preferably including Power Query or comparable data-transformation functionality.
• Basic understanding of databases and the ability to read and interpret simple SQL queries.
• Experience working with planning systems and a strong interest in systems, data quality and process development.
• Experience as a key user, super user or business representative in system development is strongly preferred.
• The ability to translate business and planning requirements into clear functional requirements for IT and data specialists.
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder-management skills in an international matrix organization.
• The ability to work independently, structure your own work and move topics forward in a developing environment.
• Professional proficiency in English. Other language skills are an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the rolling demand forecast for selected Target Customer Groups.
• Analyse sales history, demand patterns, seasonality, forecast changes and forecast performance.
• Identify significant deviations, risks and opportunities, investigate root causes and recommend appropriate forecast adjustments.
• Prepare and facilitate regular forecast reviews with Sales and Product Management.
• Challenge assumptions constructively and translate commercial input into a transparent, realistic and fact-based demand plan.
• Prepare and facilitate Demand Reviews, including volume trends, forecast-performance insights, key assumptions, risks, opportunities and recommended actions.
• Ensure that new products, portfolio changes, SKU transitions and product ramp-downs are correctly reflected in the forecast.
• Collaborate with Production Planning and Sourcing on significant demand changes and forecast-related issues.
• Monitor relevant Demand Planning and S&OP KPIs and recommend improvements to forecasts, processes and working methods.
• Contribute actively to the further development and standardization of the Teknos S&OP process.
• Act as a key user and functional expert for the Demand Planning system.
• Test system changes and new functionality, document processes and support colleagues in the effective use of Demand Planning tools and data.
• Investigate data and system discrepancies and work with IT, Data Services and other specialists to resolve root causes.
• Identify opportunities to simplify or automate manual and repetitive Demand Planning activities.

Skills

Demand Planning

S&OP/IBP

Forecasting

Power Query

SQL basics

Planning systems

Key user experience

IT requirements translation

Facilitation

Independent work

English fluency

Tools

Power BI

Qlik Sense

Snowflake

Python

IFS Demand Planning

Job description

Teknos invites a skilled Demand Planner to own the rolling demand forecast for selected customer groups and lead the team as a functional expert for Demand Planning systems and data. You will work with Sales, Product Management, Production Planning, Sourcing and IT to translate commercial input into a robust, fact-based forecast.

Join Teknos to shape the future of Demand Planning and S&OP across an international manufacturing environment.