FORECASTER – FRAGANCE & BEAUTY EUROPE

CHANEL; Paris; Sur place; EUR 40 000 - 60 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A luxury beauty brand is seeking a Forecaster to join their Fragrance & Beauty team in Paris, responsible for ensuring reliable demand forecasts and optimizing stock allocation for the European region. Ideal candidates should have a Master’s degree and at least 3 years of experience in demand planning. The role requires strong analytical skills, proficiency in IT tools, and the ability to communicate effectively with diverse teams. The company values fostering an inclusive culture and supports personal growth.

Prestations

Opportunities for personal growth

Collaborative culture

Diverse teams and stakeholders

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in demand planning or supply planning.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate clearly with stakeholders.

Responsabilités

• Perform European sales forecasts monthly using statistical tools.
• Ensure optimal allocation of orders for new product launches.
• Manage stock allocation efficiently in case of scarcity.

Connaissances

Analytic skills

Data-driven

Communication skills

Team spirit

Proactive mindset

Fluent English

Formation

Master’s degree (BAC+5)

Outils

Excel

PowerPoint

Power Pivot

VBA

Description du poste

FORECASTER – FRAGANCE & BEAUTY EUROPE

FIXED TERM CONTRACT - Starting in January until April 2026

The Regional Fragrance & Beauty Forecast team combines deep knowledge of product, business and local markets - operating at the croassroad of marketing, finance, commercial and supply chain teams - ensuring the right expression of demand and maximizing the service level for Europe F&B. This expertise is essential to secure production volumes, guarantee stock availability, protecting brand image and business potential.

WHAT IMPACT YOU CREATE AT CHANEL

Within the F&B Europe Operations Direction and reporting to the Forecast Manager, your role as a forecaster is to ensure a reliable demand to meet Europe’s strategy and budget ambition, in line with trends and product plan potential. You also contribute to optimizing the stock allocation for the European region, playing a pivotal role with marketing, finance, sales and supply chain teams

Forecast Management:

• Perform European sales forecasts of a range product axis in a monthly cycle, using a statistical tool and capturing business trends, local events, supply chain challenges by developing ad-hoc analyses

• Build estimate on new product launches based on Europe strategy, provide guidelines to markets, and challenge their forecasts in collaboration with regional marketing.

• Drive consensus between market, region and division to achieve an aligned ambition among all stakeholders.

• Ensure reliable European demand for SPM Permanent, coordinating activities between markets, division and merchandising team (management of an apprentice).

Allocation Management:

• Ensure optimal allocation of orders for new product launch, in collaboration with the CS division, Export, ME and France.

• Arbitrate stock allocations in case of scarcity, among markets in partnership with marketing, to maximize the service rate.

• Play an active role in coordination and communication to ensure the execution between markets, region and division

Market Management:

• Coordinate and support the monthly operational processes for your markets

• Lead validation meetings with cross functional local teams (sales, finance, marketing, supply) to capture market context and business updates, enabling the assessment of risks and opportunities and proactively managing forecasts and stock allocation at Europe level.

Animate S&OP meeting on your product axis within Europe team and with division, to highlight risks and opportunity, monitor product availability and find alternative solution to drive and support markets business potential

YOU ARE ENERGISED BY

Working on complex and challenging supply chain environment

Thriving in a collaborative and international environment with diverse perspective (marketing, sales, finance, supply …)

Gathering information from markets and marketing to provide qualitative input to quantitative analysis

Being proactive and proposing stock allocation to support decision making

Assessing risks and opportunities and sharing with Sales and Operations teams

WHAT YOU WILL BRING

Master’s degree (BAC+5) from a higher education or engineering school with minimum of 3 years of experience in demand planning or supply planning.

You are recognized for:

• Your strong analytic skills, data driven and solution-oriented approach, rigor, dynamism, autonomy and team spirit, combined with solid product awareness and business acumen driven by curiosity

• Your ability to work both independently and collaboratively with diverse teams to achieve and deliver results.

• Your excellent communication skills, enabling you to convey ideas and figures clearly to maintain relationships with stakeholders

• Your strong expertise in IT tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, Power Pivot, and VBA..

• Your fluent ability to speak English

WHAT CHANEL CAN OFFER YOU

In this role you will have the opportunity to acquire deep skills in F&B supply chain from factory to point of sale, working with diverse teams and stakeholders around markets, regional and division. You will get a good knowledge of the functioning and challenges of the Europe region, including the distribution, specificity of markets and complexity of information systems.

At CHANEL, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive culture that promotes personal growth and development while contributing to collective performance. We strongly believe that the uniqueness of each individual enhances the diversity, complementarity, and efficiency of our teams. We highly encourage you to apply, as we greatly value the experience and potential you could bring to the CHANEL Maison.