Demand Planner (all genders)

The Demand Planner at Philips Personal Health manages the volume planning process for selected product categories. This role is crucial for integrating with sales and commercial organizations, ensuring accurate account planning, and leading the Sales Inventory & Operations Planning process. Key responsibilities include creating baseline demand forecasts, maintaining rolling forecasts, analyzing performance, managing phase-in/phase-out, and optimizing inventory levels. The planner will also drive process improvements and support local teams, bridging gaps between forecasts and delivery to enhance operational efficiency and consumer well-being.

Must Have

• Create baseline demand forecast using relevant inputs and prepare a 12-month baseline forecast.
• Maintain 12-month rolling forecast in planning system, including baseline, promotional, and NPI forecasts.
• Analyze operational planning performance, define root causes, and implement corrective actions.
• Manage phase-in/phase-out, recommending items for de-stocking based on inventory analysis.
• Review commercial inventories, recommend optimal safety stock levels, and drive PDCA for excess/ageing stock.
• Drive improvement projects in demand planning and provide expertise and training to local teams.
• University degree.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in demand planning.
• Proficiency in statistics, forecasting, and forecasting methods with understanding of financial/operational impacts.
• Fluent in English and very good ability to use MS Office.

Good to Have

• Knowledge of SAP.

Perks & Benefits

• Bonus based on performance achieved
• Private medical care with option to extend to family members
• Benefit System cards
• Discount for Philips’ products
• Wide variety of trainings & learning opportunities
• Promotion of a healthy lifestyle in the office
• Employee Assistance Program

The Personal Health sector is dedicated to responding to the consumers’ aspirations all over the world. With the aim of improving their health and well-being. Our unique competitive advantage is the combination of our powerful global brand, our insightful understanding of people, our extraordinary competence in technology and design, and the many synergies with our channels, partners and supply chain.

A Demand Planner is the integration point into the sales and commercial organization. As a Demand Planner within the Personal Health sector you will be responsible for managing the volume planning process across selected product categories. This role facilitates accurate account planning and customer account planning as well as leading Sales Inventory & Operations Planning process. You will be responsible improving the processes by bridging gaps between forecasts and delivery at an operational level.

Responsibilities:

• Creating the baseline demand forecast by using all relevant inputs (i.e. Statistical Forecasts, Historical sales, Customer data on forecast, stock in trade, sell-out) and preparing a 12 months baseline forecast. This to be enriched on relevant input from Marketing and Sales (i.e.: distribution changes, competition, pricing impact, market intelligence, etc.)
• Maintaining 12 months rolling forecast in planning system, consisting of baseline forecast and promotional forecasts (Sales input) and NPI (Marketing input).
• Analyzing operational planning performance of sales vs plan. Defining root causes/corrective actions collaborating with other functions as input for next planning cycles.
• Phase-in/Phase-out management: Recommend items for de-stocking based on inventory turnover/ageing and excess analysis.
• Inventory Management: Regular review of the commercial inventories. Recommend optimal safety stock levels based on requested service level and inventory targets. Review current and projected excess and ageing stock and drive PDCA
• Driving improvement projects in the demand planning space and support local teams with expertise and training as required

Requirements:

• University degree
• Min. 3 years of experience in demand planning
• Proficiency in statistics, forecasting and forecasting methods with an understanding of their financial and operational impacts
• Knowledge of SAP would be an asset
• Strong analytical, organizational, decision making, and presentation skills
• Strong interpersonal skills, team player attitude
• Business drive
• Fluent in English, very good ability to use MS Office

Our benefits:

• Bonus based on performance achieved
• Private medical care with the option to extend it to family members
• Benefit System cards
• Discount for Philips’ products
• Wide variety of trainings & learning opportunities
• Promotion of a healthy lifestyle in the office
• Employee Assistance Program

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.

About Us

At Philips, we believe that every human matters. As a global health-tech leader, we focus on improving people’s health and wellbeing through meaningful innovation. The people who work here share our passion and are motivated to bring this purpose to life.

For more than 130 years, we have been creating technologies and innovations that improve people's lives and support healthcare practitioners. Headquartered in the Netherlands and operating in more than 100 countries globally, we focus our advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights on Precision Diagnosis, Image Guided Therapy, Enterprise Informatics, Monitoring/ Connected Care, Sleep & Respiratory Care and Personal Health.

Together, we deliver better care for more people because we believe that every human matters. That's why we're taking steps to create an environment where we acknowledge and embrace our differences and uniqueness and listen to and value each other's views. When people feel cared for and listened to, they bring their best qualities to work, leading to better collaboration, communication, innovation and success.

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