Are you a dynamic individual that is passionate about driving business planning excellence and cross-functional collaboration? We are seeking a Business Planning Manager to join our team, where you will play a pivotal role in aligning strategy, forecasting, and commercial operations to achieve outstanding business results.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Promotion Planning: Develop and manage promotion quantities and plans, ensuring alignment with commercial objectives.
• Launch Planning: Collaborate with Marketing and other stakeholders to execute successful product launches, with accountability for launch pipe sizing and seamless cross-functional coordination.
• Forecast Construction: Lead and embed robust business planning processes, guaranteeing a customer-centric and data-driven commercial forecast.
• Risk & Opportunities Identification: Proactively identify strategic risks and opportunities, leveraging commercial forecasts to enrich the planning cycle and ensure consistency with business trends and gap analyses.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Foster strong partnerships across KAMs, Supply, Finance, and other teams to drive optimized sales planning and business alignment (The Way We Plan).
• Forecast Accuracy: Ensure promo and unit forecasts are accurate and up-to-date, consolidating promo plans and supporting O+O commercial processes.
• Customer Centricity: Serve as a critical stakeholder in delivering best-in-class forecast accuracy and bias reduction at the customer level.

YOU HAVE...

• Min. 5 years of experience in business planning, RGM, commercial forecasting, or a related field.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to anticipate risks and identify growth opportunities.

• Proven ability to drive cross-functional collaboration and alignment.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Customer-centric mindset and a drive for continuous improvement.

YOU ARE...

• Entrepreneurial. Every single day, you spot opportunities to shake things up and change the world for the better.
• Adventurous. You'll embrace challenges and changes with fire in your belly and a great big smile on your face
• Open. To new ways of doing things. To other people's (sometimes crazy) ideas.
• Respectful. Whether you're talking to our internal or external stakeholders, consumers, you treat everyone the same
• Ambitious. You crave for success and we'll support you all the way.
• Only Human. You'll screw up sometimes but you have no fear of failure because you're smart enough to learn from mistakes.
• You. You're real. And you're true to yourself. We cherish and celebrate diversity so you'll feel right at home whoever you are