Demand Planner (m/w/d) fixed-term contract

Job Description Are you interested in joining the LEGO® Germany/Austria/Switzerland Demand Planning team on a two-year fixed term contract? Demand planners are key, trusted business partners with good understanding of the commercial business and strong functional technical mastery. By providing additional capacity and capability, you will join this team to deliver accurate forecasts while embracing new technologies and processes and driving significant change! This is a fixed-term contract until end of December 2027. Relocation support is not offered for this role.

Core Responsibilities

• Building upon a statistical forecast, you will deliver a monthly demand plan for part of the BU’s revenue (themes) covering a specific short-term time horizon.
• Ensuring alignment of theme plan assumptions with Brand Management.
• Collaborating with the commercial functions and with regional departments, you will ensure that demand plans accurately reflect known marketing activities, product launch timings and promotional activities, for the horizon covering up to 18 months.
• Supporting the Demand Planning Team in managing big data and creating valuable business insights for improving our forecast accuracy.
• Driving and executing continuous improvement initiatives related to Forecasting tools and processes.
• Play your part in our team succeeding. The role supports the broader business to evaluate the volume and value of the existing plans, enabling senior management to identify gaps to target and to take corrective action.
• The output of your work will also be used by supply chain to ensure the right products are manufactured at the right time, improving In-Stock Availability whilst avoiding the generation of waste.
• The demand planner role is “multilingual” as it is used to inform supply chain (volume) and commercial planning processes (value).

Do you have what it takes?

Previous demand planning and/or supply planning experience from FMCG is preferential but not necessary, we are happy to welcome anybody who previously worked with complex data (might be also Finance, Sales/Marketing analysis etc.). Validated analytical skills developed through years of relevant work experience. Person with a passion for digital tools and advanced skills in Excel (including VBA) and Power BI (ability to create dashboards). Enthusiastic collaborator who can communicate and convince diverse audience from commercial business areas. Proven record of the ability to communicate in a way that makes the complex simple. Self-driven person who likes to improve processes and is not afraid to speak up or challenge the status quo. Fluent English required (spoken and written), intermediate German preferred.

What’s in it for you?

• Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
• Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
• Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.
• Colleague Discount – We know you’ll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
• Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you’ll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
• Workplace - When you join the team you’ll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.
• Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong. The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team. The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer. Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do.

We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe.

Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

Just imagine building your dream career. Then make it real. Join the LEGO® team today.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do.

Our founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen made his first wooden toy in 1932. He persevered against the odds until his business was a success. Constantly innovating, never compromising. Building, rebuilding, and striving for the best. It is this resilience and permanent sense of renewal that drives us forward. We are never still. We will always be creating, inventing, and having fun. Build your career brick by brick and play your part in continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow”.