Demand Planning Manager

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As one of three core business within Inter IKEA Group, Range & Supply has the responsibility to develop, design, produce and supply IKEA retail channels with home furnishing solutions available to the many people. Each year IKEA Range & Supply introduces 2,000 new products in the over 400 IKEA stores and other multichannel touchpoints around the world with the turnover close to 40 BEUR. The total range is almost 10,000 products.Job DescriptionAre you an experienced and passionate leader with a strong supply chain understanding and a belief in what effective planning can do for IKEA? Do you like to work in partnerships across different IKEA units and Business Areas to reach common goals where the demand planning agenda is a key enabler for future business success? Do you want to be part of a diverse, energetic team - leading across dynamic, changing and developing business environment? Then this just might be the right opportunity for you!The world around us is changing. Embracing the full opportunities of multichannel retailing puts new demands on IKEA to develop and implement new planning solutions. Within Range & Supply we see an efficient and effective demand planning as a game-changing opportunity to achieve the right accuracy in planning at the right cost in our supply chain.As Demand Planning manager you will, among other tasks:•   Lead demand planning and a team of demand planners to achieve the right accuracy to agreed cost of planning.•   Be responsible to drive competence development towards a data driven and automated demand planning. •   Be accountable for demand planning accuracy (net and gross)•   Lead the team by example, coaching and motivating the co-workers. •   Be responsible for driving the competence agenda: Identify needs and gaps, building strong competence plans together with the co-workers to meet the short and long term business needs•   Contribute to development by appointing subject matter experts to the development and implementation of working methods and systems within the supplying process.•   Be responsible to secure and improve the handover from product development process (creating the offer) to Supplying process, in order to secure excellence in operations.QualificationsAs a person, you have a strong passion to guide the organisation into the future, having a strong drive in the field of planning. You have leadership skills to lead business and people in a global assignment. You have the drive to develop your co-workers and yourself to deliver excellent results. You strive to obtain a good collaboration and interaction with a big number of various stakeholders cross Business Areas. Moreover, you have a desire to find new ways and make them happen through engaging and motivating people. You go the extra mile and find new solutions to enable IKEAs journey to become a true Multichannel Retailer. To succeed in this role, we believe you have:•   High interest to take leadership to build the next generation demand planning function for IKEA•   Knowledge or willingness to learn how to apply advanced analytics for demand planning•   Knowledge of agile mind-set and ways of working•   A passion for planning and leading in a global assignment•  Strong leadership experience •   A academic degree within supply, economic, engineering or corresponding knowledge •   Knowledge of IKEA Business Area strategy & range•   Strong knowledge and understanding of supply chain and processes•   Knowledge of Sales Planning and Product development process•   The desire and capability to be a great communicator and by this build trust and relationships to handle multiple stakeholders in a global environment. •   Fluency in English.