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Demand Planning Manager (m/f/d) - fixed-term contract

• Location München, Germany

• Job ID 0000014848

• Category Supply Chain

Job Description

This is a Fixed Term Contract until August 2026

Are you interested in a Demand Planning Manager role within the Europe Central (EUC) LEGO Business Unit covering Germany, Austria, and Switzerland? You will be accountable for delivering the short-term demand plan for a group of SKUs and you will support regional colleagues to build the longer-term forecasts. Your work is key to an effective BU S&OP process, helping the business to deliver its commercial targets.

Your combined commercial knowledge of the LEGO Business Unit and demand planning technical mastery makes you a trusted partner to the BU Operations, Brand Management and Commercial Teams.

You will be responsible for a significant part of the SKU forecast, you provide Operations support to the gap closing process and you drive continuous improvement to tools and processes aiming at improving accuracy, collaboration, and effectiveness.

Core Responsibilities

• Building upon a statistical forecast you will create the demand plan for a significant part of the business unit revenue; the forecast covers both Consumers Sales and Customer Sell In at customer group and SKU level and KPIs include topline accuracy as well as item error.

• You will ensure demand plans accurately reflect known marketing activities, product launch timings and promotional activities.

• You will ensure alignment of theme plan assumptions with Brand Management.

• You will support Sales and Marketing to evaluate the likely impact of commercial investments.

• You will support the overall BU S&OP processes by owning specific topics (e.g. Confidence to Target, Gap to Target investments and impacts, Risks & Opportunities)

• You will represent the Demand Planning Team in the BU Seasonal Squad which plans and executes the most important campaigns of the year.

• You will ensure effective communication with the Market Group demand planning team ensuring top-down strategies are understood within the BUs whilst also providing the Market Group demand planners with clarity of key BU specific assumptions across the full forecasting horizon.

• You will use your demand planning expertise and skills to drive continuous improvement for our processes and tools.

Play your part in our team succeeding.

The output of your work will be used by supply chain to ensure the right products are manufactured at the right time, ensuring good availability and in-stock whilst avoiding the generation of waste. The demand planner role is “multilingual” as it is used to advise both the supply chain (volume) and the commercial planning processes (value). You will be responsible for the short-term forecast and work with the regional team to influence the longer-term plan. You will represent Demand Planning in some of the BU cross-functional collaboration Teams and support senior management to identify gaps to target and take corrective actions.

A real opportunity to use your curious and focused approach to ensure we send the right demand signal to production and improve the opportunity of getting the right LEGO products in the hands of the builders of tomorrow.

Do you have what it takes?

• Previous demand planning and/or supply planning experience from FMCG is preferential but not vital, we are happy to welcome anybody who previously worked with sophisticated data (might be also Finance, Sales/Marketing analysis etc.)

• Validated analytical skills developed through years of relevant work experience.

• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and influencing skills.

• Passion for digital tools, advanced skills in Excel (including VBA and Power Queries) and Power BI (ability to create dashboards)

• Enthusiastic collaborator with excellent written and verbal communication skills and who can communicate and convince diverse audience from commercial business areas and of different seniority.

• Ability to communicate in a way that makes the complex simple.

• Determined person who likes to improve processes and is not afraid to speak up or challenge the status quo.

• Resilience, adaptability, and ability to learn quickly.

• Experience leading cross-functional improvement and digital transformation projects.

• Proficient in English, German is advantageous.

What’s in it for you?

Here are some of what to expect:

• Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

• Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

• Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based.

• Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

• Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

• Your workplace –When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay regardless of e.g. race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

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