Hasbro SA, based in Delemont Switzerland, manufactures and sells Hasbro toy and games products around the world. Hasbro European Trading BV ('HET') is Hasbro SA’s distributor in Europe, which sells to Hasbro SA’s customers in all major European countries. Hasbro International Trading BV ('HIT') is Hasbro SA's distributor for Direct/FOB sales in Europe. Hasbro UK Ltd ('the Company') provides sales, marketing and other services to HET and HIT in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Director, Demand & Market Distribution Planning - EMEA
Step into a pivotal leadership role where you’ll shape the future of regional business planning at Hasbro! As the driving force behind a high-impact planning team, you’ll collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Leadership to create and maintain a dynamic 24-month rolling forecast. Your expertise will enable seamless inventory flow, champion global inventory policies, and optimize cash management and inventory health across the region.
You’ll own the pursuit of excellence in planning practices, delivering top-tier customer service at the best possible cost. Your mission: maximize sales and service levels for our accounts while minimizing inventory and obsolescence. Beyond the numbers, you’ll provide brand and category oversight, actively shaping demand and leading process improvements that elevate our planning capabilities.
This is your opportunity to make a real difference—driving innovation, influencing strategy, and ensuring our business thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Location & Flexibility: This hybrid role is based in Stockley Park, West London, with in-office presence from Tuesdays to Thursdays, and flexible remote working on Mondays and Fridays.
Key Deliverables:
1. Lead a high-performing team of Planners delivering an accurate demand & market distribution plan for the regional business, utilising the agreed planning methodologies & systems, baselining & enriching consumer demand to provide an unconstrained rolling forecast & then executing S&OE plans in market, optimising inventory health & cash.
2. Own the signal being passed from the region to Supply Chain, ensuring performance delivery on Forecast Accuracy, Bias & Forecast value add.
3. The role will lead ongoing inventory optimisation in the market, ensuring inventory clearance execution plans are in place across the Region, focusing on aging control, exit strategy, and product lifecycle
4. Execute regional demand management cycles (DMR, S&OE), co-pilot with the regional Commercial Leader to drive the DMR (Demand Review) & S&OE (Sales & Operational Execution) with commercial leadership, get approval of recommended forecast, define R&Os, and actions that the commercial teams will take to drive or influence demand, along with the demand drivers & assumptions to underpin this demand. Ensure Regional action plans are in place and actioned to mitigate out-of-stock supply risk or excess inventory.
5. Partner with the Statistical Modelling team to ensure optimal baseline forecasts are available for regional Demand Planning teams, that all adjustments and assumptions are recorded, channel trends, seasonality, promotions.
6. Ensure multiple variables which shape the demand forecast are available & used consistently, standardise way for respective region, business unit level Shipment (Sell in), POS (Sell out), SIT, Share data, promotional plans/mechanics, cannibalisation.
7. Partner with Global Supply Planning to implement inventory policy & optimize it across the region. Represent the market requirements on parameter setting, such as safety stock, cycle stock & other inventory