Demand Planner

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose.

Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

As a Demand Planner based in Budapest, you will be responsible for running the monthly forecasting and supplying cycle with the connected departments (sales, marketing, supply, NPI) and with factory; maintaining the forecast in Kinaxis DP system, managing inventory in SAP ECC system. To our new colleague we provide a fixed-term contract for a maximum of 2 years.

• Responsible for the sales forecasting & supply process of given brands in the CEE region
• Run monthly forecasting meetings with Sales Team
• Inventory planning, S&OP analysis to drive decision making
• Weekly review of production plans ensuring stock availability in the warehouse
• Verify freshness and shelf life left of the stock
• Manage shortages with allocation based on priorities
• Reporting on the KPI's (service level, forecast accuracy, inventory level, supply chain losses)
• Lead the data management system, portfolio files, develop it with the requested demands
• Set up SKU baseline profiles, characteristic value combinations in the system
• Lead continuous improvement projects for the demand and supply planning operations

• University or college degree in a related field
• Fluent English besides native Hungarian
• Ideally 2 years of Demand and/or Supply Planning experience (FMCG experience preferred)
• Advanced knowledge of MS Excel; Power BI would be a plus
• Excellent communication skills, ability to step up in meetings with senior managers
• Proactive, curious and able to work under pressure in a multicultural environment
• Efficient problem-solving to evaluate & resolve operational issues when needed
• Strong analytical skills

Supply Chain Management, Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Business Acumen, Improve business processes, Advanced Analytics, Data Analytics, Supply Chain Planning.

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way.

We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Some of our local benefits:

• regular home office opportunity and flexible working hours
• attractive benefits package: cafeteria, free entrance in 7 gyms in Budapest, product discounts, shortened working days on certain Friday

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.