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Mondelez International

Makes cookies, chocolate, gum and candy worldwide

Demand Planner

Supply Chain ManagementUpdated on Nov 5
Full-timeMechelen, BelgiumNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Experience in a fast-moving consumer goods or consumer packaged goods environment, preferably in food or another fast-moving, dynamic industry where shelf life is a constraint.
  • Experience within an integrated business planning or sales and operations planning environment.
  • Ability to influence cross-functional teams, work on priorities, and improve the plan.
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, including the ability to understand and interpret data.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to work with many other functions on a daily basis.
  • Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field.
  • Ability to work under tight deadlines in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment.
  • Strong analytical mindset; approximately 80% of the role involves data analysis, forecasting, and generating insights.
  • Ability to translate data into actionable insights and effectively share them with stakeholders.
  • Comfort with frequent short-term changes and ability to adapt quickly.

Responsibilities

  • Develop the 0–24-month integrated business planning forecast by brand and stock keeping unit level.
  • Coordinate, challenge, and influence the development of forecast building blocks using input from sales, marketing, and other partners.
  • Review the disaggregated short-term demand plan, including stock keeping unit/location mix and weekly pacing.
  • Provide the finalized detailed demand plan by stock keeping unit to supply planners and adjust it based on feedback from supply planners or commercial teams.
  • Contribute to the demand management cycle of the integrated business planning process for assigned categories and participate in strategy and structure discussions.
  • Liaise with commercial and operational teams and develop ways to continuously improve communication between functions to support delivery of business key performance indicators for their product families.
  • Manage the forecast compilation process, including ownership of the short-term weekly plan and the long-term forecast of three or more months.
  • Interact with the modelling team to generate statistical forecasts.
  • Participate in the integrated business planning process and manage the demand planning tool.
  • Perform root-cause analysis to continuously improve the plan for key service issues, forecast error, and bias, and share findings with appropriate leadership.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in food or another fast-moving, dynamic industry where shelf life is a constraint.

About the Company

Mondelez International

Makes cookies, chocolate, gum and candy worldwide

Mondelez International makes snack foods sold in grocery stores, convenience shops and online from North America and Europe to Latin America, Asia and Africa. Its brands include Oreo and Chips Ahoy cookies, Cadbury, Milka and Toblerone chocolate, Trident gum and Halls cough drops. The company runs factories around the world, buys large amounts of cocoa and wheat, and ships finished snacks to retailers and distributors. It earns money by selling these branded snacks at wholesale, and it grows by adding local brands and buying regional bakeries and snack makers. Mondelez took its current name in 2012, when Kraft Foods split off its North American grocery business, and is based in Chicago.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Chicago, IL
Founded
1903

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