Economist as Demand Planner - FMCG (all genders)

Job Description

The following adventures await you at Schleich:

• Responsible for collecting, analysing and maintaining 18-month-rolling forecast of an assigned Sales Region
• Playing a key role in S&OP Process: fascilitating and leading monthly Demand Review meetings together for the management sign-off
• Improving the planning accuracy for your products, franchises and sales regions along the whole product lifecycle
• Consolidating sales, marketing inputs and consumer insights to allow data-driven decision making
• Improving availability for our customers & consumers in close collaboration with Supply Planning, Order Management and Sales Analytics
• Driving a "what-if" planning and decision-making culture throughout our planning processes and meetings
• Aggregated long-term planning for a more optimized purchasing process
• Continuously optimize our Demand Planning process, reporting and tools

The chapters of your story so far:

• You have a university degree with a focus on Business Administration, Supply Chain, Economics or equivalent education
• You have gained several years of relevant professional experience in S&OP and Forecasting in an international environment, ideally from a CPG/FMCG area
• You have excellent communication skills and strength in leading processes and projects
• You are a natural and authentic team player (all genders) across departments and capable of collaborative planning
• You have a strong "out-of-the-box" thinking mindset, conceptual skills and a passion for continuous improvements
• You have gained very good knowledge of MS Office (especially Excel and PowerPoint) and forecasting software; experience with SAP and Power BI are an advantage
• Working knowledge of Python (pandas, matPlotLib, NumPy) is an advantage
• Working knowledge of SAP IBP Planning software is an advantage
• You are fluent in English and ideally you have good German language skills spoken and written

No kingdoms nor mountains of gold, but many other rewards:

• No two days are the same in this career like no other. Work in a dynamic, diverse environment that offers individual career and development opportunities. All our employees also have access to numerous online courses via our training platform.
• Let's write the Schleich story together. Be part of a motivated team of people who support and inspire each other and celebrate success together.
• We aim to please. We offer an attractive, fair salary with additional benefits that are regularly reviewed and updated.
• Appetizing! We offer a meal allowance of 82.60 CKR per working day.
• Every hero must retire one day. That's why we offer a subsidised pension scheme.
• You can also enjoy great discounts on our schleich products - a great bonus for kids and adults alike.
• And what about your adventures outside of Schleich? You can count on 30 days of paid leave per year and a hybrid working model with no core working hours.