European Planning Manager F/H/X

Job Description:

Segment : Royal Canin

Contrat : CDI

Localisation : Aimargues, proche de Montpellier et Nîmes

The European Planning Manager is responsible for leading the forecasting process for Royal Canin products.

He/she is the expert on forecasting at strategic and operational level and regularly consulted for insights related to market growth activities. He/she is key enabler to support product availability, customer service excellence, mid/long term planning steering and process improvements.

Core activities include supply planning accuracy, scenario building based on market and regional insights, predictive analysis, product deployment support, cross functional projects implementation, continuous process and system improvement.

He/She works in a team of regional planners in constant connection with Sales, Marketing, Finance, R&D and Supply Chain departments.

• Master Degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration or similar.
• Fluency in English is required, French is a plus
• 5 years of experience in Planning function.
• Expert in forecasting and in improving business processes.
• Experience with Futurmaster or Advanced Planning system a plus
• Strong passion for continuously improving forecast results while engaging the organization on demand insights.

1. Supply Planning & Forecasting

• Lead the management of supply planning process for a set of defined markets which includes the integration of historical sales trends, researching demand drivers (competitive responses, trend, substitution effects), development of Statistical forecast models to develop a rolling 24-month forecast.

• Interface with Sales, Marketing, R&D and Supply teams to reflect latest market and regional insights/assumptions into the EU planning system.

• Lead periodical Supply Management Review with Markets to ensure clear communication regarding forecast, forecast variances and ensure supply feasibility of unconstraint requirements.
• Custodian of the regional planning process. Must secure on-time demand plan submission to supply chain, commercial, operation and procurement team.
• Animate community of local supply planners to ensure coordination of activities
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2. Product Deployment

• Support Regional product deployment by contributing to pre-launch deployment activities (definition of Road-To-Market, Language on packs, sourcing site, logistic information preparation…)
• Ensure perfect execution of decision made related to product change management in coordination with Regulatory, Marketing, Sales, Commercial or Supply function.

3. Continuous Improvement

• Define corrective actions associated to Forecast Accuracy gap vs regional target
• Lead process improvement initiatives including best practices sharing with markets
• Support operating procedures documentation and standardization
• Support Root Causes Failure Analysis

4. System Maintenance, improvement and transformation

• Support FuturMaster versioning upgrade
• Contribute to the maintenance of Product Life cycle & Bill of Supply in FuturMaster

• You will work in a multicultural environment (more than 40 nationalities) and where your dog will be welcomed by more than 100 other Associates' dogs at the office
• You will work in a unique campus, which gathers more than 800 Associates working for: the international HQ, the French subsidiary, two laboratories, a kennel and a cattery with more than 200 cats & dogs, and finally the most important factory of the Royal Canin group
• A unique and ideal work environment to become the leader in health through nutrition for cats and dogs
• You will evolve in the heart of an innovative production plant that will challenge you, on a daily basis

Royal Canin's CSR commitments, to build a better world for tomorrow:

• Since 2015, no waste to landfill is made by the 16 Royal Canin factories in the world
• All Royal Canin products manufactured in Europe are ISO 14001 certified from design to factory gate
• Since 2017, Royal Canin has supported the K-DOG program of the Curie Institute, which trains dogs to detect breast cancer via olfaction.