Date: Jul 18, 2025
Location: Barcelona, ES
Company: AkzoNobel
About AkzoNobel
Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon – is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today – while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.
For more information please visit www.akzonobel.com
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Zona Franca Barcelona
Customer Demand Manager South Europe
About the role
The purpose of the role is to lead Demand Planning activities throughout the defined region to ensure a 2-3 year demand forecast and the DMR is operating Key interface between Commercial teams and Supply Chain..
- “Translates” the Sales and Marketing plans into a Sales Demand Plan in the forecasting system
- Build monthly forecast using statistical tool and additional market information, and concentrates on the 4 – 24 months period.
- Responsible for master data required to perform statistical forecasting (e.g. corrected history)
- Looks for choosing the most adapted forecasting model per product group and customer group
- Responsible for making sure that all sales area managers and account managers enrich the forecast in time
- Refine forecast based on latest information on a day to day basis
- Identify gaps between target and unconstrained demand plan
- Supports the IBP process in cooperation with BU IBP Lead
- Follow up the forecast accuracy and bias in order to get the required target
- Ensure forecasts uploaded to enable MRP to execute well and correctly.
- KPI’s driver and reporting i.e. Forecast Accuracy, Bias, Vulnerabilities and Opportunities
- Lead team of demand planners servicing the commercial units, 2 demand planners in Spain and 1 in Italy
- Active involvement in the weekly S&OE process together with Supply Planning
About You
- Degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business Administration or Science.
- Minimum 10-12 years working experience in Demand Planning /Demand Management
- Analytical, can work independently
- Business acumen, understand requirements from internal and external customer and acts upon these
- Stakeholder management; able to manage stakeholders in various functions and levels of the organization Coordinating skills; Prioritize and coordinate different requirements to ensure customer satisfaction and solid end to end delivery
- Excellent Communication skills; understands and speaks language of internal and external stakeholders
- High level of Spanish & English
- System skills: SAP, OMP, Excel, PowerBI and Powerpoint
We offer
- Cafeteria benefits (subsidized cafeteria).
- Hybrid Work.
- Join a growing multinational company.
- Stable project.
- Flexible remuneration.
- Free parking.
- Professional and personal development in a dynamic environment.
- Access to training platform.
- Free use of paddle tennis and soccer courts on the site.
At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.
Requisition ID: 48043