**Summary**:
**Salary**:
Competitive
Team:
Planning and Retail Operations
**Location**:
Italy - Milan Office
**About Us**:
Dyson is a global technology enterprise. We solve the problems others choose to ignore, with surprising new inventions that defy convention and simply work better. We're driven by progress and thrive on the challenge of relentless improvement. We're growing fast and our ambition is huge - more categories, more locations and more people.
Pioneering technology takes more than just inventive engineers. At Dyson, we take a problem-solving approach to everything we do. And across our support teams, we're proud to be different. And importantly, we support change to maintain our rapid growth.
**About the role**:
The Market Demand Planner will be key, as the unbiased function, to lead the multi-functional team efforts in accurately forecasting the true demand. This role will be bringing the outside in, ensuring high quality and accuracy in Dyson's planning efforts, feeding accurate by SKU forecast to the Supply team so they can provide the right level of service and inventory to deliver the business.
Key responsibilities
- Develop and coordinate demand planning and budgeting processes used within the organization (lead the local S&OP process)
- Build the unbiased bottom-up demand forecast based on the validated assumptions collected during the monthly forecasting process together with the multi-functional team, focusing on the mid/long-term rather than the short-term
- Responsible of forecast accuracy overall, root cause analysis and action planning
- Closely work with the Supply Chain Managers by focusing on giving them the right input (by SKU/CRG sell-in forecast) to deliver the needed levels of service and inventory
- Proactively monitor and strives to maintain high levels of quality and accuracy in the demand forecast, as well as process consistency end to end
- Proactively identify opportunities for demand planning process improvement. Overall lead a culture of continuous improvement
- Coordinate efforts to achieve our targets (volume and value), timely identify gaps vs. target if any and ensure proper allocation of resources to maximize profit
- Monitors the accuracy and efficient distribution of demand planning reports and other intelligence essential to the Global Revenue and Supply Chain organizations. Recommends revisions to existing reports or assists in the development of new reporting tools as needed
- Implements enabling technologies and/or support deployment of global solutions in the region
**About You**:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, or related field
- 2/3+ years of experience in demand planning, supply chain management
- Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and strategic thinking skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel and other data analysis tools
- Familiarity with forecasting system
- Ability to work independently and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
**Benefits**:
- Discretionary bonus
- Lunch voucher (9,5€)
- Discounted Dyson machines
- 50% public transport subsidy OR company car (depending on the role)