Senior Demand Planner

Vanderlande; Veghel; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

40 vacation days

Flexible working hours

Hybrid workplace

Health & Wellbeing budget

Commuting allowance

Working from home allowance

Collective pension scheme

On-site company health centres

Training facilities

Job summary

Vanderlande in Veghel is seeking a Senior Demand Planner to enhance demand planning for its Airports, Distribution, and Warehousing sectors. This role drives the development of a cohesive corporate demand plan, focusing on the tactical planning period.

The ideal candidate will possess 5–10 years of experience in demand planning and be skilled in stakeholder management and analytical thinking. Vanderlande offers a flexible hybrid work environment and extensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 5–10+ years of experience in demand planning, S&OP or supply chain planning.
• Experience in process design, capability building or planning transformation.
• Proven ability to work across multiple business units in a matrix organization.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve the cross-domain demand planning framework.
• Consolidate domain forecasts into a corporate demand plan.
• Identify and manage demand risks and opportunities.

Skills

Demand planning

S&OP

Supply chain planning

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Tools

Anaplan

ERP/planning systems

Power BI

Job description

Vanderlande is looking for a senior demand planning professional to operate at corporate level and shape how demand planning works across the company’s three business domains.

This role plays a key part in building a mature, transparent and integrated demand planning capability that supports tactical planning and the transition toward Integrated Business Planning (IBP).

The role

As Senior Demand Planner, you own and strengthen demand planning across Airports, Distribution and Warehousing (TAL). This is a corporate capability role in which you define standards, governance and ways of working together with demand planners in the domains.

You consolidate demand information from the three domains into one coherent corporate demand plan for the tactical planning horizon (6–18 months). You lead the demand review process, manage assumptions, risks and scenarios, and ensure demand is translated into clear inputs for resource, supply and financial planning.

You are also a key contributor to Vanderlande’s Integrated Business Planning (IBP) transformation, ensuring demand planning is fully embedded in the end-to-end planning cycle.

What you’ll do

• Own and continuously improve the cross-domain demand planning framework, including standards, KPIs, governance and roles
• Consolidate domain forecasts into one transparent and aligned corporate demand plan
• Define and maintain a baseline forecast based on project pipeline, firm demand and master data
• Lead the cross-domain Demand Review, creating a consensus unconstrained demand plan
• Identify and manage demand risks, opportunities and scenarios, including assumption-based planning
• Improve forecast accuracy through structured root‑cause analysis and continuous improvement
• Act as linking pin between Sales / Customer Centers, Domain Planning, Supply Planning, Resource Planning and Finance
• Build demand planning capability through coaching, training and community‑of‑practice support
• Represent demand planning in the IBP design and rollout
• Partner with Anaplan, Power BI and ERP teams on data quality, analytics and planning transparency

What you bring

• 5–10+ years of experience in demand planning, S&OP or supply chain planning
• Experience in process design, capability building or planning transformation
• Proven ability to work across multiple business units or domains in a matrix organization
• Strong analytical and conceptual thinking, comfortable planning under uncertainty
• Excellent stakeholder management and facilitation skills
• Ability to challenge assumptions while maintaining strong partnerships
• Comfortable operating up to senior leadership and C-level
• Experience with Anaplan, ERP/planning systems and Power BI is a strong plus

About Vanderlande

Vanderlande is headquartered in Veghel, with a global team and worldwide impact. We design and deliver automated logistics systems for airports and distribution (parcel) operations. Warehouse automation sits within TAL (Toyota Automated Logistics), a separate organization within the group.

What we offer

We offer a position in an international and professional working environment with room for personal development and growth.

• 40 vacation days (20 statutory days and a flexible budget worth 20 days)
• Flexible working hours
• A hybrid workplace (40% working from home and 60% in the office)
• A Health & Wellbeing budget worth € 300 per calendar year
• Commuting allowance, including full reimbursement of public transport
• Working from home allowance
• Collective pension scheme and discount on additional health insurance
• On‑site company health centres with gym, physiotherapists and occupational therapists
• Vanderlande Academy and training facilities
• A variety of Vanderlande network communities and initiatives