Demand Planning Data Analyst (12 months FTC)

Job Description

Are you interested in a demand planner role supporting the LEGO Group with its forecasting and analytics?

Your technical proficiency in demand planning makes you a trusted partner to the Operational and Commercial Teams. You provide valuable insight and analysis to support decision making process. The quality of your forecasts and analytical solutions has a direct impact on supply chain efficiency and product availability.

The role is a fixed term contract lasting 12 months.


Core Responsibilities

• You will be responsible to support the short term forecast (0-4 months) creation and for providing the vital information to the teams managing longer horizon.
• Building upon a statistical forecast output you will deliver an accurate demand plan for both Consumer Sales and Shipments to Customers.
• Ensure demand plans accurately reflect known marketing, product launch timings and promotional activities both LEGO and customer funded.
• Support sales and marketing to evaluate the likely impact of commercial investments.
• Maintain the data bases required for the statistical engines to run.
• Maintain, validate and consolidate multiple data sources to enable their analysis, and deliver accurate interpretation to support strategic conversations and decision making.
• Build reports, dashboards, and presentations to communicate findings and recommendations to the Operational and Commercial Teams.
• Define and uphold standards and processes for forecasting, analysis & reporting.
• Maintain productive working relationships with the cross functional team members.
  
  
  

Play your part in our team succeeding!

The role supports the business to evaluate the volume and value of the existing plans, enabling senior management to identify gaps to target and take corrective action.

The output of your work will also be used directly by supply chain to ensure the right products are manufactured at the time to maximize In Stock Availability whilst avoiding the generation of waste. The demand planning role is “multilingual” as it is used to inform supply chain (volume) and the commercial planning processes (value).

Do you have what it takes?

• Expert in mathematics, economy or statistics based subject area or validated analytical skills developed through on the job experience.
• A proven understanding of statistics and commercial competence, solid understanding of levers that impact consumers and customers behavior's.
• Experience working with large amounts of data from diverse sources, ability to consolidate and visualize them using Power BI, Power Automate (Flow), Tableau, Microsoft Azure, SAP BW/HANA.
• Experience working within a consumer goods environment ideally as demand or supply planner or analyst.
• An ability to master complexity.
• Be able to communicate in a way that makes the complex simple.
• Be comfortable working with senior and junior colleagues.
• An ability to assimilate multiple data inputs and determine a most likely outcome.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• An ability to balance local priorities and those set functionally.
• Past experience of working within a supply chain environment and/or commercial environment is preferential.
• Have experience of working with people across multiple functions
  
  
  

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. The hiring team will discuss the principles of our hybrid work model 'Best of Both', role eligibility and frequency 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.

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