Demand & Supply Planner

What you’ll do

The Demand & Supply Planner role is to manage and maintain the end-to-end Planning for the EMEA business. Focusing on the strategic demand plan to drive the correct inventory signals for optimal supply to our EMEA customer base for your allocated Product Group Category.

How you’ll do it

• Forecast Demand requirements through sell through analytics, customer forecast reviews, and channel inventory alignment.
• Manage the demand signals through analytics and collaborative reviews to ensure the forecasts are correct for the business.
• Work collaboratively with key stakeholders to define NPI launches, plan to united transition plan, and adjust forecasts to align to the agreed plans.
• Analyze market trends and commercial impacts to recommend demand plans to the Sales Leads.
• Participating fully in the EMEA S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning) process owning the forecasted demand for your responsible business units, while identifying opportunities to improve KPIs and improving the EMEA Supply Chain process and systems.
• By working closely with the BU leads, manage the demand signals of NPI launches and transitions to ensure the demand and cannibalization risks are being proactively communicated to key stakeholders for collaborative resolution.
• Ensure EOL plans are forecasted correctly, and remaining inventory is consumed where applicable to provide the business with the correct E&O visibility based on these demand signals.
• Utilize the demand forecast signed off by Planning and Sales Leads to maintain inventory supply, whilst adhering to the regional KPIs, excess stock exposure, inventory targets, and reduced air freight expenditure.
• Execute appropriate purchase orders to maintain the demand signal you’ve applied in the system.
• Closely monitor supply constraints to ensure rolled demand forecasts are not being purchased where supply is diminished, and demand is lost.
• Expedite and defer purchase orders to meet evolving demand plans as per the exception messages being Identified through the MRP messages.
• Fulfill responsibilities under ISO 9001; understand and fully support ISO system.
• Maintain a safe and clean work environment.
• Understand and follow company rules and regulations.
• Perform all other duties as assigned and required.
• Building, managing and maintaining excellent relations with both internal and external stakeholders, and customers, while driving collaboration and maintaining high business performance.
• Must be flexible and able to adapt quickly into a fast-paced environment.
• The ability to prioritise tasks to meet critical business deadlines is essential

What you’ll need & What you’ve done

• Previous experience in Demand and Supply Planning with a minimum three years’ experience
• Solid organizational, analytical, and interpersonal skills including strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience in Demand & Supply Planning tools, such as Oracle Cloud Planning
• Effective problem solving and analytical skills
• Mastery in communication to a wide range of stakeholders at varying levels
• Experience with an ERP system preferably Oracle
• Strong experience in Microsoft office, such as Excel, PowerPoint
• Possess excellent people and relationship management skills
• Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Sound judgement, flexibility, and strong professional ethics
• Proven ability to meet multiple deadlines

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.

Belkin is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer Disability and Veterans. We maintain a drug-free workplace.

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