Demand Planning Specialist

L'Oréal; Fatih; On-site; TRY 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

L’Oréal is seeking a driven Supply Chain Forecast Analyst to join our team in Turkey. You will build and manage rolling demand plans, align forecasts with financial targets, and drive global forecast processes in collaboration with Sales and Finance.

You will contribute to catalog management, forecast accuracy, and best practices across markets, while leveraging advanced MS Office skills and English communication to support strategic decisions.

Qualifications

• 4 years university degree is required.
• 1-3 years of experience in supply chain operations.
• Strong analytical problem solving skills.
• Open minded with ability to collaborate with internal/external teams.
• Excellent communication & negotiation skills.
• Ambitious, confident and able to take initiative.
• Curious, enthusiastic, rigorous and detail oriented.
• Advanced level of MS Office Applications.
• Excellent English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure sales forecasts accuracy and building turnover through piloting the sales forecast process.
• Align demand forecasts with financial budgets and business targets with Finance.
• Construct demand plan for rolling 12 months.
• Manage the global monthly sales forecast process.
• Catalog management and contribute to its rationalization.
• Build the baseline forecast and maintain its quality.
• Challenge and consolidate promotions and launches forecasts.
• Ensure forecast consistency through consensus between commercial forecasts, financial trend, and sales history.
• Improve forecasting collaboration and benchmark with other countries.
• Analyze forecast accuracy and interpret business stakes.
• Plan strategies to improve forecast accuracy per category (M-1 to M-3).
• Contribute to process and information systems improvements and share best practices.

Skills

Analytical skills

Collaboration

Negotiation

Initiative

Curiosity

MS Office

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree (4 years)

Tools

MS Office

Job description

The world leader in beauty, present in 150 countries on five continents! Our 53 international brands include L’Oréal Paris, Kiehl’s, Vichy, Giorgio Armani Beauty, Garnier, Yves Saint Laurent Beauté, Ralph Lauren, Maybelline New York, Kérastase, Biotherm, Lancôme, NYX PMU, L’Oréal Professionnel, Vichy, La Roche-Posay, Diesel, Cerave and many more…

For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted itself solely to one business: beauty. We strive to be the 1st beauty-tech company all around the world! Beauty is a powerful force that moves us. Our goal is to offer each and every person around the world the best of beautyin terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity and responsibility to satisfy all beauty needs and desires in their infinite diversity. Our ambition for the coming years is to create the beauty that moves the world!

If you are ready to take charge of your career and join us on our quest for the next billion consumers, follow us to get the insider scoop on our business, culture, and tips on how to join us to shape the future of beauty.

What You’ll Do

• Ensure sales forecasts accuracy and the building of turnover through the piloting of the sales forecast process.
• Ensure alignment between demand forecasts, financial budgets and business targets in close collaboration with Finance
• Construction of demand plan for rolling 12 months’ timeline
• Manage the global monthly sales forecast process.
• Be responsible for the catalog management and contribute to its rationalization.
• Build the baseline forecast and maintain its quality.
• Challenge and consolidate the promotions and launches sales forecasts projected by the Sales and Marketing teams.
• Ensure the global sales forecast consistency, through the building of a consensus between the commercial forecasts, the financial trend and the sales history.
• Enhance Business Planning - Demand Planning Collaboration and improve Commercial Forecast
• Participate to the improvement of the sales forecast practices, benchmark with other countries.
• Analyze Forecast Accuracy with depth; interpret the extent to business stakes
• Plan new strategies to improve Forecast Accuracy results on category basis (M-1&M-3)
• Contribute to the improvement of the processes and information systems related to his/her activity and be the referent of his/her job in his/her country. Help increase the knowledge level of Supply Chain community with the best practices and tools related to his/her area of expertise.

Do You Have What It Takes

• 4 years’ university degree
• At least 1-3 years of experience in supply chain operations
• Strong analytical problem solving skills
• Open minded, can effectively collaborate with internal and external expert communities
• Good communication & Negotiation skills
• Ambitious, confident and able to take initiative
• Curious, enthusiastic, rigorous
• Advanced level of MS Office Applications
• Excellent communication skills in English

What Could L’oréal Offer You

• The ultimate place to win and achieve your career dreams if you take initiative and push the boundaries while helping others shine along the way
• Work with some of the biggest brands and experts in the business and the most passionate people
• A diverse environment
• Enablement to contribute to sustainability
• Opportunity to be at the center of digital transformation
• World-class training and development

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