[2025] UKI - Demand Planner - Luxe

L'oreal Usa; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

L'Oréal seeks a Demand Planner to forecast sales across its brand portfolio. This role requires collaboration with sales, marketing, and supply chain teams. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills and a proactive mindset, contributing to process improvements and efficiencies.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Discounted Gym Memberships

Enhanced Pension Plan

Up to 60% Off Products

Paid Fertility Leave

Qualifications

• Minimum of two years’ experience in product planning.
• Strong understanding of factors influencing sales forecasts.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with brand partners to build consensus forecasts.
• Present findings to senior management on key risks and opportunities.
• Drive process improvements and optimize catalogue management.

Skills

Communication

Stakeholder Management

Analytical Skills

Proactive Mindset

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Excel

FuturMaster

SAP

Job description

L'Oréal is seeking a highly motivated and analytical Demand Planner to play a crucial role in forecasting sales for our dynamic brand portfolio. This role is vital in bridging the gap between sales, marketing, and supply chain, requiring strong collaboration and communication skills. The successful candidate will be a key point of contact across multiple functions, influencing forecasting decisions and contributing significantly to the overall success of the business.

A DAY IN THE LIFE

A typical day might involve collaborating with brand partners to build a consensus forecast, integrating commercial insights with financial trends and historical sales data.

You'll spend time challenging and refining promotional and launch forecasts, working closely with Business Planning and Sales & Marketing teams to ensure alignment.

You'll present your findings to senior management, highlighting key risks and opportunities. Regular communication with S&OP and supply planning teams is crucial, requiring clear and concise updates on forecast changes.

In addition to core forecasting responsibilities, you'll actively drive process improvements, optimize catalogue management, and contribute to better efficiencies and customer service. You will also be involved in brand management committees, proactively leading and contributing to supply chain initiatives.

WHO YOU ARE

• You have a minimum of two years’ experience in product planning; demand planning experience is a plus.
• You are confident in developing demand forecasts, reviewing historical sales trends, promotion plans, and other known activities to adjust the operational forecast.
• You have a strong understanding of factors influencing sales forecasts.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills: ability to simplify complex information.
• You show advanced proficiency in Excel. Experience with FuturMaster and SAP is highly beneficial.
• Proactive, continuous improvement mindset. Willingness to challenge existing processes.
• Ability to effectively coordinate planning topics and serve as the ambassador of supply chain topics within the brand.

WHAT WE OFFER

Our industry-leading, award-winning benefits package demonstrates how much we value our people. We recognize that they are at the heart of L'Oréal's success, so we offer a fair and competitive package to help you thrive.

Enjoy perks like money-saving offers, free mortgage advice, share options, and an enhanced pension plan. Love our brands? You'll get up to 60% off iconic names like YSL, CeraVe, Armani, Kiehl's, and Garnier! Because health matters, we offer private medical and dental insurance, discounted gym memberships, and onsite mental health support. We also provide enhanced family leave for all and up to 4 weeks of paid fertility leave, so you can prioritize what matters most.

Learning is in our DNA at L'Oréal. We'll help you master your role, build skills, and access top-notch leadership programs and monthly expert talks. And there's lots more too!

WHO WE ARE

L’Oréal is present in 150 markets on five continents. For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted itself solely to ‘Create beauty that moves the world’; it is now the industry leader with €29 billion in consolidated sales. We solve complex challenges at scale while remaining committed to making the world a more inclusive and sustainable place. Experience the excitement of agility to shape the future of beauty, where diversity and purpose create meaningful impact.

Our Corporate Division supports over 4,000 employees in the UK & Ireland. It’s a fast-paced, dynamic environment with visibility across our four Divisions, playing an integral role in advancing our business. Our founder Eugène Schueller once said, “a company is not walls and machines, it’s people, people, people.” Joining our corporate teams means being part of the world leader in beauty, at the forefront of innovation, and becoming part of a talented and inspiring team.

HOW WE RECRUIT

At L’Oréal, we pride ourselves on creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome and valued. We are committed to inclusive employment practices regardless of race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, socioeconomic status, medical condition, or disability. We embrace difference—backgrounds, experiences, personalities, and perspectives—because our diversity fuels our creativity and innovation.

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