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Director Digital driving digital transformation strategies for customer - centric solutions at a prominent automation group. Focus on enhancing operational efficiency and implementing innovative digital products.
About the role
- Demand Planning Excellence Director shaping global IBP and Demand Planning strategy at Essity. Leading the Center of Excellence and driving demand forecasting excellence across business units.
Responsibilities
- Own and lead the global IBP and Demand Planning strategy, defining a clear roadmap, target operating model, and governance across the company.
- Work closely with the Demand Planning Directors in the different Business Units to ensure and support strategy execution.
- Lead the global IBP implementation and continuous maturity journey, ensuring strong executive engagement, clear decision-making forums, and full alignment across the organization.
- Set global standards, principles and ways of working for Demand Planning and IBP, ensuring consistency while enabling local business relevance.
- Establish, maintain and follow-up clear service level Agreements (SLAs) and responsibilities between all stakeholders (central and local teams in the BUs driving and enriching the forecast, and the Center of Excellence providing the statistical forecasting service).
- Establish a performance-driven governance model, using clear and common KPIs for Demand Planning to measure forecast quality, process effectiveness, and business impact.
- Actively contribute to end-to-end supply chain strategy.
- Act as a role model for leadership behaviors, driving high performance, coaching, talent development, and fostering a strong culture of continuous improvement.
Requirements
- University degree in Supply Chain, Business, Statistics, Engineering or related fields.
- 10+ years of international leadership experience in Demand Planning, S&OP and IBP, with a proven track record of leading large-scale IBP and Supply Chain transformations across multiple regions and business units, delivering measurable business value, ideally within FMCG environment.
- Demonstrated ability to design, lead and scale transformation journeys, from strategy definition to execution, including operating model redesign, process standardization, digital enablement and change adoption across the organization.
- Strong strategic understanding of forecasting methodologies, statistics, AI/ML forecasting and planning systems (e.g., SAP S/4, IBP, Anaplan).
- Proven experience operating at senior leadership level within complex, matrix organizations, influencing across functions and regions.
- Strong people leader with experience managing and developing global and multicultural teams.
- Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
- Passion for developing teams, fostering collaboration, and driving continuous improvement.
Benefits
- Our purpose, Breaking Barriers to Well-Being, provides meaning to everything we do.
- Join us to improve well-being for people and drive positive change for society and the environment.
- At Essity, you'll feel valued, empowered to grow, and challenged to achieve business results in a collaborative and open atmosphere.
- Innovate for Good | Excel Together | Be You with Us.
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