Director Demand Planning & S&OP

Company: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
Location: Culver City
Posted on: April 22, 2025

Job Description:

About this PositionAt Henkel, you can build on a strong legacy and leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses to reimagine and improve life every day. If you love challenging the status quo, join our community of over 47,000 pioneers around the globe. Our teams at Henkel Consumer Brands continuously drive the evolution in dynamic categories: Laundry & Home Care and Hair. With our trusted brands, including Persil and Schwarzkopf, our cutting-edge technologies and our disruptive solutions, you will have countless opportunities to explore new paths and develop your skills. Grow within our future-led businesses, our diverse and vibrant culture and find a place where you simply belong. All to leave your mark for more sustainable growth.Dare to make an impact?What you -ll do

• Develop and own the demand planning strategy across all product categories and channels (retail, e-commerce, wholesale, etc.).
• Lead and optimize the S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning) process, ensuring cross-functional alignment. Provide executive-level reporting and insights to support business planning and decision-making. Responsible for embedding a weekly S&OE and monthly S&OP meetings to align a consensus plan with Sales, Marketing and Finance.
• Use statistical modeling, POS data, market trends, and promotional activity to create accurate forecasts at the SKU and regional level.
• Collaborate closely with Sales, Marketing, and Finance to incorporate new product launches, promotional plans, and market intelligence into the forecast. Support other go-to-market strategies through delivery of broader initiatives and projects.
• Identify demand variability and proactively manage risk through scenario planning and contingency strategies.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of demand planners and analysts.
• Partner with supply planning and inventory teams to ensure high service levels while minimizing excess and obsolescence.
• Implement and continuously improve forecasting tools, systems, and processes (e.g., SAP IBP, Anaplan, NetSuite, etc.).
• Deliver monthly KPIs including forecast accuracy, bias, fill rate, and inventory turnover.
• Work closely with Sales and Marketing to analyze quantitative and qualitative inputs to the forecast such as trade promotion plans, competitive impacts, new item launches, and cannibalization in the development and delivery of the monthly demand plan.
• Work cross-functionally with Logistics & Customer Excellence to help deliver an E2E improvement in our supply chain.
• Adopt and build advanced analytics in Power BI to eliminate manual Excel analysis for daily, weekly report outs and ensure decisions are taken based on insights from analytics.
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