BU Demand Planner

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**Location:** Burgos, ES, CP 09001 Burgos, ES, CP 09001 Zdzieszowice, PL Wroclaw, PL Alzira, ES Prostejov, CZ Poznan, PL Novy Bydzov, CZ Barcelona, ES Gdansk, PL Prague, CZ Krakow, PL Lodz, PL Zlotow, PL Barcelona, ES Gdansk, PL Prague, CZ Poznan, PL Lodz, PL Krakow, PL Prostejov, CZ Alzira, ES Novy Bydzov, CZ Zlotow, PL Zdzieszowice, PL Wroclaw, PL **\#job\-location.job\-location\-inline { display:** inline; } **Department:** Operations/Production/Manufacturing **Full\-time or Part\-time:** Full\-Time **Job Type:** Employee **Shift:** Remote **.buttontextc23a3e91845ba7f3 a{ border:** 1px solid transparent; } .buttontextc23a3e91845ba7f3 a: focus{ border: 1px dashed \#00a1de !important; outline: none !important; } Accelerate the possible by joining a winning Amcor team that’s transforming the packaging industry and improving lives around the world. At Amcor, we unpack possibility through our innovative and responsible packaging to provide solutions that benefit our customers, our people and our planet. More than 10,000 consumers worldwide encounter our products every second and rely on us for safe access to food, medicine and other goods. We value their trust by making safety our guiding principle. It’s our core value and integral to how we do business. Beyond this core principle, our shared values and behaviors unite us as we work together to elevate customers, shape lives and protect the future. We champion our customers and help them succeed. We play to win – adapting quickly in an everchanging world – and make smart choices to safeguard our business, our communities and the people we serve for generations to come. And we invest in our world\-class team, empowering our colleagues to unpack their potential, because we believe when our people grow, so does our business. To learn more about playing for Team Amcor, visit www.amcor.com I LinkedIn I Glassdoor I Facebook I YouTube **Job Details:** Deman Planner **BG and BU:** Amcor Flexibles Europe, Middle East \& Africa (AFEMEA) **Function:** Operations **Sub\-Function:** Supply Chain Planning — Centre of Excellence (CoE) Demand Planning **Location:** Flexible location within Europe **Travel:** Approximately 10–20%, primarily to Business Unit and commercial locations, with occasional site visits **Line Manager's Job Title:** CoE Demand Planning Director **Advertising Legal Entity:** Amcor Group GmbH **Work Contract Legal Entity:** Contract will be issued according to legal requirements and the legal entity of the hiring country **Contract Type:** Permanent Job Purpose The Demand Planning Manager is accountable for demand planning within their assigned Business Unit(s) and is a core member of the AFEMEA CoE Demand Planning team. This role is an individual\-contributor / functional manager role with significant cross\-functional leadership, coaching, and influence responsibilities; direct line\-management accountability, if any, will be defined by local organization design. **The role has three dimensions:** **– Plan — Owns the Business Unit demand planning cycle:** develops and maintains effective forecast models based on industry trends and demand patterns, collaborates with and constructively challenges the sales organization, identifies and manages risks and opportunities, facilitates the Demand Review, and communicates the consensus demand plan after sign\-off. – Standardize — Drives adoption of common demand planning standards across the Business Units in scope (forecasting methodology, planning calendar, consensus process, and KPI definitions), coaching all involved stakeholders on forecast ownership and the consensus process, and feeding learning back into the development of CoE standards and tools. – Steward — Owns the quality and completeness of demand\-side planning master data for their scope (product and customer hierarchies, planning attributes, history cleansing and outlier rules, forecast parameters), defines and communicates central data requirements, and partners with the Planning Data Coordinator, BI and IT roles to close gaps — building reliable demand visibility even where current systems do not yet provide it. Job Dimensions \& Scope **Internal and external relationships:** – CoE Demand Planning and CoE Supply Planning teams, operating as one planning community – Sales VPs, Sales Directors, Managers and Executives, and BU commercial organizations – Business Unit Vice Presidents, Supply Chain and Management Teams – Customer Service teams – Key Customers, in partnership with Sales teams – Business Intelligence SC\&CS, the Planning Data Coordinator, and data \& analytics partners – Supply Chain Transformation team (planning standards development and deployment) **– Functional teams linked to supply chain processes:** Manufacturing, R\&D, Procurement, Marketing, Finance, Legal – Stakeholders within other Amcor Business Groups – Scope will be assigned by Business Unit, product family, geography, or site cluster depending on complexity, volume, and planning maturity Principal Accountabilities Demand planning \& S\&OP (Plan) – Acts as a key business partner to the sales team, collecting and processing market intelligence to support an effective sales forecast process – Develops effective forecast models in the planning system (currently SAP IBP) based on industry trends and demand patterns, applying statistical, machine\-learning and AI\-assisted techniques as these capabilities mature – Owns and manages the baseline forecast on behalf of the business — building toward an operating model in which the statistically and AI\-managed forecast is the starting point and commercial teams focus their time on market intelligence and overrides by exception, with Sales retaining ownership of the final forecast commitment – Closely collaborates with sales to support, drive and constructively challenge the sales forecast submission – Closely collaborates with customers, when appropriate, to build and validate a collaborative customer forecast plan with full transparency in the related assumptions – Identifies and actively manages risks and opportunities associated with the latest demand plan, driving mitigation and gap\-closing actions and escalating critical cases to be addressed during the Demand Review – Drives Demand Reviews together with the Sales VP and Sales Directors – Provides the rationale behind demand evolutions compared to the previous cycle – Successfully communicates the consensus demand plan after sales leadership sign\-off – Liaises with sites to review forecast changes and assumptions, with the ultimate goal of building trust in the consensus demand plan – Ensures, in partnership with the Supply Planning CoE, that the consensus demand plan is used as the base plan by sites when defining their production and procurement plans – Owns forecast dashboards and follow\-up action plans, actively presented within the monthly S\&OP process **– Provides the demand input to supply planning:** a clear, unconstrained consensus demand signal with documented assumptions, delivered on the agreed cadence **– Works on an exception basis:** focuses effort on significant forecast deviations, bias patterns and demand risks rather than line\-by\-line adjustment – Manages short\-term demand within the execution (S\&OE) horizon — translating current order intake, consumption and customer signals into near\-term demand actions and into insights that inform the longer\-term demand plan Standards adoption \& commercial capability (Standardize) – Drives adoption of common demand planning standards across the Business Units in scope — forecasting methodology, planning calendar, consensus process, and KPI definitions (forecast accuracy, bias, forecast value\-add) – Coaches commercial stakeholders and BU teams on forecast ownership and the consensus process; supports capability assessments and helps close identified gaps – Builds alignment and buy\-in without direct authority — through credibility, coaching and partnership — and escalates constructively where adoption is blocked – Contributes to the development and rollout of demand planning tools, models and standards, feeding Business Unit learning back into the CoE – Ensures rigorous and regular product structure and FG portfolio analysis and simplification across the Business Group; develops processes to sustain simplification efforts – Improves standard demand planning processes (KPI analysis, dashboard review) in order to reduce order book volatility and help drive downstream production, material, delivery and inventory strategies Data \& visibility (Steward) – Accountable for the accuracy and completeness of demand\-side planning master data in scope (product and customer hierarchies, planning attributes, history cleansing and outlier rules, forecast parameters), independent of the source system – Defines central data requirements for demand planning; escalates and tracks closure of data gaps with the Planning Data Coordinator, BI and IT partners – Develops and maintains demand visibility and forecast dashboards on trusted, governed data using standard CoE tools, reducing reliance on unmanaged offline files over time – Ensures demand planning KPIs and reviews are based on actual, trusted data CoE citizenship – Works as one planning community with the Supply Planning CoE: shared cadences, shared data foundations, and internal alignment on issues before external communication – Creates, in partnership with Sales teams and HR, training and development