Lindström: Demand Planner

Are you looking for the next steps to shine professionally in a multicultural environment with circular economy present in your everyday work? Get ready to work in an innovative textile service business named as one of the most interesting companies in the circular economy, with a turnover of 495 million. With a 175-year-long history (not retiring anytime soon!) of caring for our people and customers, we are ready to expand our Lindström family. Currently we, a Finnish family-owned company awarded with the Family Business of the year 2021 in Finland, have over 5,000 inspiring people in 23 countries around Europe and Asia. Now is your chance to become part of the journey of helping our customers to grow more in a sustainable way. Take a leap with us as our new:

DEMAND PLANNER

As Lindström’s new Demand Planner you will gather, consolidate, and analyze information for the tactical and group demand plans to be used in supply planning needs. In this role you will work on demand plans both for new sales as well as for existing customers, and will also provide development suggestions to the management team on how to improve demand planning. You will also be working with the Lindström Group Sales and Operation Planning (S&OP) and Sales and Operations Execution (S&OE) processes. Your location will be at our Head Office in Kalasatama, Helsinki, where we are working in a hybrid model, and you will be reporting to our Supply Chain Director. 

In this role, your key responsibilities will include:

• Gathering and consolidating weekly and monthly demand plans for new sales and existing customer maintenance needs
• Validating and analyzing demand plans based on current and previous trends and other relevant factors
• Giving feedback and support for business unit level demand planning on a regular basis
• Supporting and working together with Business Unit buyers
• Facilitating trainings related to demand planning and S&OP and S&OE processes
• Updating and reporting relevant demand planning KPIs such as demand plan accuracy
• Continually improving the demand planning strategy and processes, and providing management with development suggestions 
• Working in close cooperation with the S&OP manager and supply planner in balancing demand and supply plans both in a short- and long-term time scales
• Continually supporting supply planning, product development, and procurement in product lifecycle management and other relevant areas
• Supporting customer project management in relevant issues
• Preparing demand plan analyses for management needs 
• Acting as key user of relevant planning tools

We are looking for a new team member who has good skills in data analysis and a familiarity with relevant mathematical and statistical methods and tools. You can be at the beginning of your career or already have a few years of experience, and we will support and guide you along the way. Experience in demand planning, logistics, or procurement will be considered an advantage, and excellent people skills will be seen as integral for working with different stakeholders and for organizing trainings for colleagues. A proactive approach to work and an interest towards continuous learning and teaching others are at the heart of this role, and experience in working in a large international organization will benefit you. If you are ready to take on new challenges, you might be the one we are looking for!

Our ideal candidate has:

• Relevant university degree or equivalent qualification
• Experience in demand planning, logistics and/or procurement is considered an advantage
• Good understanding of relevant mathematical, statistical, and analytical methods
• Excellent IT skills, particularly Excel
• Excellent written and spoken English language skills
• Excellent communication and presentation skills and experience in facilitating trainings 
• Excellent collaboration and cooperation skills
• Analytical thinking and structured way of working
• A customer- and solution-oriented mindset, ability to multitask and work with tight deadlines

We offer you an exciting and challenging position in a unique business environment, where you will get to innovate, bring forward your own ideas, and work at the heart of circular economy. You will get to work with experienced experts in a truly international setting. We will support you by encouraging you to grow and develop professionally. To help you on your Lindström journey, we offer you several benefits such as comprehensive health care services and sports, culture, and well-being benefits via Epassi. In everything we do, we want to live our purpose: we care for people and our planet by inspiring people to shine and businesses to grow in a sustainable way.

Interested? For more information, please don’t hesitate to contact Risto-Pekka Rantanen (Director, Supply Chain). You can reach Risto-Pekka by phone at +358 400 253 149 on Wednesday April 3 between 9:00 – 10:00 EET or on Thursday April 11 between 10:00 – 11:00 EET.

To apply, please fill in our online application form no later than Sunday, April 14, 2024. The starting date for this position is negotiable, but we wish to have a new team member as soon as possible. Act fast as we will be going through applications already during the application period. The position is permanent. We look forward to hearing from you!

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