Export Demand Planner

Bel is a major player in the food industry, offering dairy, fruit, and plant-based portions of healthy eating, and is one of the world's leading branded cheese companies. Its portfolio of differentiated and internationally renowned products such as The Laughing Cow®, Kiri®, Babybel®, Boursin®, Nurishh®, Pom'Potes® or GoGo squeeZ®, as well as around thirty other local brands, enabled it to achieve a turnover of 3.6 billion euros in 2022.

Do you want to join a company with strong brands that places the consumer and responsibility at the heart of its decisions? Bel is made for you

Are you bold, pragmatic, and determined? Do you want to contribute to the transformation of an international food group? Then come and measure the impact of your talent and energy on the realization of an ambitious and sustainable business project

**#IWorkForAllForGood**

Mission : Establish robust demand forecasts by using relevant statistical tools and actively collecting and using market and sales information to enrich the forecast in order to execute a high-quality demand planning process resulting in a translation of the business needs into a validated demand plan (focusing on volume and value)

Participate to S&OP animation and build strong collaboration with distributors.

**Mains Responsibilities**:
**Demand Forecast and S&OP process: (80%/90%)**
- Coordinate forecasting process for Latin America and French Overseas Territories, at a DFU level and co build short, mid-term and long-term demand plan with Sales & Marketing teams

and distributors based on statistical analysis (considering market trends, customers vision, expected exceptional, promo, guidelines issued from previous S&OP cycles)
- Perform gap analysis versus budget, month M-1, previous year both in volume and value
- Prepare Sales and Marketing forecasting meetings jointly with distributor including key assumptions and risks & opps
- Animate forecasting meetings with BU Sales and Marketing teams + distributor
- Collect information from Marketing on new products Phase In, discontinued products Phase Out process
- Update short, mid and long-term Demand Plan in JDA and IBP according to forecasting meetings and S&OP+ discussions and decisions
- Conduct historical data cleansing / explanations in JDA
- Perform forecast accuracy analysis (MAD / BIAS), identify improvement action plan, implement and track
- Review incoming promotions advise on availability and timing and propose forecast changes
- Ensure the Supply feasibility of the forecast planning on short term horizon (in collaboration with the master planners)
- Alert on overstock or low stock on short and mid-term at distributor
- Challenge and propose optimized safety stock levels in collaboration with distributor
- Participate in building state of the art S&OP supporting steps 1 (Drive The Growth) and 2 (Demand Planning) in a collaborative approach with distributors.

**Continuous improvement / projects: (10%/20%)**
- Be proactive and propose improvements of actual demand process
- Develop tools & reports, and support team in optimizing supply chain performance for the Business Unit
- Engage internal & external stakeholders on continuous improvement project (collaborative forecast, data sharing )

**Qualifications & Experience**

**Minimum level of education and professional experience needed**:

- Master’s degree in supply chain management or business school / Engineer
- 3 to 5 y experience in demand
- Fluent in English - French

**Specific knowledge (software, technical skills)**:

- Forecasting tool
- Supply Chain APICS certification is a plus
- Statistics tools performance understanding
- Knowledge about local market: distributors, products, channels, market insights
- Proficient in Pack office: Excel, Word, Power Point
- Experience with APS: JDA, BW, IBP