Demand Insights & S&OP Specialist

Supply Chain

Own end-to-end demand forecasting for Consumer Beauty Benelux, integrating market insights and cross-functional inputs to deliver accurate plans, support S&OP decision-making, and act as the key interface between local teams and the central planning hub to drive business performance and operational efficiency.

The role

As our Demand Insights & S&OP Specialist, you play a critical role in owning demand forecasts for the Benelux portfolio, integrating market insights, enabling cross-functional alignment with commercial teams and the central demand planning hub to deliver accurate and reliable forecasts supporting business performance.

You will be reporting to Demand Insights & S&OP Senior Manager, and you will manage:

1. Demand forecasting ownership (Benelux Consumer Beauty)

• Own the end-to-end forecast for the Benelux portfolio, ensuring accuracy and reliability
• Manage innovation forecasting for all new product launches and service rounds for customers
• Plan promotional activities and product sets, translating business inputs into forecast assumptions
• Maintain forecasts in systems, integrating insights and ensuring proper evaluation
• Provide quantified input (e.g. promotions, distribution changes, delisting, customer events) to enrich forecasts

2. S&OP & stakeholder interface

• Actively participate in the local S&OP process, supporting value-based planning and decision making
• Act as the key interface between Sales, Marketing and the central demand planning hub
• Consolidate and communicate market insights, risks and opportunities to central planning
• Collaborate with Finance to ensure forecast alignment with financial planning
• Support forecast validation and reasonability checks in collaboration with the hub

3. Portfolio insights, collaboration & planning processes

• Manage demand planning inputs for customization and displays (e.g. blistering)
• Collaborate with central teams on forecast accuracy, KPI performance and insight quality
• Contribute to forecast drivers and inputs used in planning systems
• Support cross-functional alignment across marketing, sales and supply teams
• Identify and support continuous improvement opportunities in forecasting and planning processes

You are a Coty fit

As a data-driven and detail-oriented supply chain professional, you thrive in a fast-paced and diverse environment. You are analytical, collaborative, and able to work under pressure in a highly cross-functional role.

• Degree in Logistics, Supply Chain, Engineering, or a related field
• 2–5 years of experience in demand or supply planning
• Strong analytical and numerical skills, with the ability to translate business input into forecasts
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple inputs from cross-functional teams
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• Experience working with Power BI

At Coty, we value data savvy people. As part of the Coty curated strategic program, we are transforming into a data centric organization powered by AI. If you have data engineering skills or experience developing dashboards in Power BI, this is considered a strong advantage.

What we offer

This is a unique role with a genuine opportunity to make an impact. You’ll get to work in a diverse environment with a team of professionals who are passionate about the work they do and know how to have some fun along the way.

Coty’s global omni-working policy provides the option to work up to 50% of your month remotely. We believe that a more flexible philosophy of remote working will give everyone the freedom to choose what works for their individual circumstances and empower them to always perform at their best.