Demand Planner

Job Description: Demand Planner

As a Demand Planner, you will drive a BU / Market based forecast to a targeted level of forecast accuracy, enabling accuracy of outlooking, whilst owning inventory against a targeted budget plan and performing to hit all planning KPIs. You will work closely with Sales and Product Management to drive a high level of customer service.

What You’ll Do

As a Demand Planner, you are responsible for:

• Building, managing, and maintaining excellent relations with both internal and external stakeholders and customers while driving collaboration and maintaining high business performance.
• Being the integration point into the sales and commercial organization.
• Providing sales and country-based SKU level forecasts to drive the business planning to ensure delivery of sales plans, customer services, cost, and inventory, utilizing all available intelligence from the marketplace to analyze and recommend actions where forecasts and inventories are out of balance.
• Participating fully in the EMEA S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning) process, owning the forecasted demand for your responsible markets while identifying opportunities to improve KPIs.
• Working collaboratively with key stakeholders to define NPI launches and adjust forecasts to align with the agreed plans.
• Managing demand signals of NPI launches and transitions to ensure the demand and cannibalization risks are proactively communicated for collaborative resolution.
• Analyzing market trends and commercial impacts to recommend demand plans to the Sales Leads.
• Working closely with the Supply Planning Team to understand current inventory position, rebalance inventory expectations with Sales Leads, and prioritize time-critical inventory (promotions, catalogues, etc.).
• Ensuring EOL plans are forecasted correctly and remaining inventory is consumed where applicable to provide the business with the correct E&O visibility.
• Must be flexible and able to adapt quickly into a fast-paced environment.
• The ability to prioritize tasks to meet business-critical deadlines is essential.

What You’ll Need

• Solid organizational, analytical, and interpersonal skills, including strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience in Demand & Supply Planning tools.
• Effective problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Mastery in communication with a wide range of stakeholders at varying levels.
• Business level proficiency in English required; additional language is advantageous.
• Experience with an ERP system, preferably Oracle.
• Strong experience in Microsoft Office, preferably Excel and PowerPoint.
• Possess excellent people and relationship management skills.
• Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Minimum one year's experience working in a similar position across an international portfolio.
• Sound judgment, flexibility, and strong professional ethics.
• Proven ability to meet multiple deadlines.

What You’re Getting Into

We’ve got big collaborative spaces for your big ideas, so bring an open mind and leave your suit in the closet. We all are committed to creating unique and rewarding consumer experiences. Everyone is interested in succeeding – for the team, for themselves, and for the business. Cross-functionally and across the company, everyone has common goals and aspires to be their best. You will learn something new or at least look at things differently every day. There are so many smart and creative people around that you’ll be motivated to pursue the ideal. Team spirit is infectious. Belkin is an extremely open workplace, where communication is essential. Not every idea will be accepted, but you’ll be asked for your point of view. Innovation thrives on multiple and varied levels. At Belkin, we challenge conventional wisdom and refuse to accept that something cannot be done. We are committed to diversity.
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Belkin is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace.

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At Belkin, people come first. Without question, the single greatest contributing factor to our over 40 years of success is our talented and ambitious staff. We’ve found that by creating an inspirational, supportive, and enriching environment, we thrive. Around here, it’s not about fancy titles, strong political positioning skills, or a healthy list of names to drop. It’s about results. We know what needs to be achieved, and we work together to get the job done. Each of us uses our individual knowledge, creativity and resources to create fresh ideas and new concepts we can truly own. With that independence comes a high degree of responsibility and accountability, but we always rise to the occasion. We’re loyal to our coworkers, to our brands, and to the company. We lead by example to motivate those around us. We all share a passion for winning and are committed to building upon our success. We’re focused on the future and excited to show the world that the best is yet to come.