Hasbro European Services provides various services to Hasbro business units in Europe and the Middle East and Africa.
Director, Demand and Market Distribution Planning : EMEA
Step into a pivotal leadership role where you'll shape the future of regional business planning As the driving force behind a high:impact planning team, you'll collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Management 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 shape demand, and lead 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 and Flexibility:
This hybrid role is based in Stockley Park, West London, with an in:office presence from Tuesday to Thursday and flexible remote work on Monday and Friday.
Key Deliverables:
stylemargin:bottom:0.0cm;margin:top:0.0px:
:
Lead a high:performing team of Planners delivering an accurate demand and market distribution plan for the regional business, utilising the agreed planning methodologies and systems, baselining and enriching consumer demand to deliver an unconstrained rolling forecast and then executing S and OE plans in market, optimising inventory health and cash.
:
Own the signal being passed from their region to supply chain, ensuring Performance delivery on Forecast Accuracy, Bias and Forecast value add.
:
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
stylemargin:bottom:0.0cm;margin:top:0.0px:
:
Execute regional demand management cycles (DMR, S and OE), co:pilot the regional commercial leader to drive the DMR (Demand Review) and S and OE (Sales and Operational Execution) with commercial leadership, get approval of recommended forecast, define R and Os, and actions that the commercial teams will take to drive or influence demand, along with the demand drivers and assumptions to underpin this demand. Ensure Regional action plans are in place and actioned to mitigate out:of:stock supply risk or excess inventory.
:
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, e.g., channel trends, seasonality, promotions.
:
Ensure multiple variables which shape the demand forecast are available and used consistently, standardise way for respective region, e.g., business unit level Shipment (Sell in), POS (Sell out), SIT, Share data, promotional plans/mechanics, cannibalisation.
:
Partner with Global Supply Planning to implement inventory policy and optimize it across the region. Represent the market requirements on parameter setting, such as safety stock, cycle stock and other inventory drivers, lead as the market voice in the global policy conversation on adjustments and amendments to support the business. Roll out the inventory policy in market and implement technology/systems improvement to integrate policy into the market planning environment and ensure optimal flow and allocation.
stylemargin:bottom:0.0cm;margin:top:0.0px:
:
Lead ongoing inventory optimisation in market. Ensuring inventory clearance execution plans are in place across the Region, focusing on aging control, exit strategy, and product lifecycle
:
Collaborate extensively with partners (G