Demand planner

An EMEA country cluster of your own, direct influence on stock levels and product availability, and the opportunity to make planning smarter within an international organization. As a Demand Planner at Bausch + Lomb, you connect sales, finance and supply planning, ensuring that commercial plans can be put into practice. You’ll join at a stage where processes and systems are continuing to develop. That gives you the opportunity to create structure, engage markets and make a visible contribution to a way of working that will later be used more broadly across the organization. Add hybrid working and a committed international team, and you have a role where your forecast reaches far beyond the system. Here, you’ll grow both professionally and personally. Read on and apply.

You bring commercial expectations, financial plans and operational planning together. For your own country cluster within EMEA, you create short and long-term forecasts based on sales data, market developments and input from sales, marketing and finance. This gives the organization better control over product availability, stock levels, promotions and commercial decisions.

Your role is visible across the entire supply chain. You conduct monthly demand reviews, ask sharp questions about forecast accuracy and ensure market input is translated into reliable planning. As processes and systems are still developing, you’ll have the space to create structure and bring colleagues along in a more focused way of working.

To fulfil this role successfully, you’ll focus on:

• Creating short and long-term demand forecasts for your EMEA country cluster, based on sales data, market trends and commercial input.
• Leading monthly demand reviews with sales, marketing and finance, critically comparing promotional plans, financial forecasts and forecast accuracy.
• Managing forecast data and master data in the planning system, ensuring supply planning and commercial teams work with reliable information.
• Coordinating new product introductions, product phase-outs, stock risks and portfolio discussions with supply planning, logistics, regulatory affairs and other stakeholders.
• Translating trends, risks and opportunities into clear reports and advice for management and commercial teams.

As one of the most recognized and respected eye care brands in the world, Bausch + Lomb offers one of the broadest and strongest ranges of eye health products. These include contact lenses and lens care products, pharmaceutical products, intraocular lenses and other ophthalmic surgical products. The location where you’ll be working is where eye care solutions are stored and prepared for transport.

You’ll join the EMEA Supply Chain team and report to the Demand Planning Manager. Within the team, you’ll work closely with Demand Planners, Supply Planners and commercial stakeholders. The environment is international, knowledgeable and continuously developing. Helping each other where needed is central to the way the team works, and the culture within the team is informal and supportive.

You’re a Demand Planner or Supply Planner who sees structure where others mainly see separate pieces of data. You enjoy helping colleagues move forward, ask relevant questions to commercial stakeholders and stay sharp when processes are not yet running exactly as they should.

You also bring:

• At least 2 years of experience as a Demand Planner, Supply Planner or Forecasting Specialist within an international supply chain environment.
• Strong Excel skills and experience with planning systems such as Blue Yonder, JDA, SAP, PeopleSoft or similar.
• Understanding of S&OP, forecasting, inventory management and the interaction between sales, finance and supply.
• Strong verbal and written English communication skills.

Does this sound like your next step? Apply directly using the button below.
After receiving your application, the process will be as follows:

1.      Introductory phone call with RAAS. 
2.      First interview with Bausch + Lomb on site, followed by a second interview. 
3.      If both sides are enthusiastic, an offer will follow. 

Do you have any questions? Feel free to contact Kenneth Bakker by calling or sending a WhatsApp message to +31 6 57486694, or by emailing kenneth@raas.today. We look forward to hearing from you