Demand Planning Manager_

Boston

Demand Planning Manager

+ **Location** Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

+ **Job ID** 0000017095

+ **Category** Supply Chain

**Job Description**

**Bring value to yourself and the organization by putting your superpowers to work!**

This is an excellent opportunity for an individual to expand knowledge base to include demand planning and gain strong cross-functional experience while impacting the strategic goals of the LEGO organization. The department is responsible for the development of the Americas long-term demand plan - using statistical models, macroeconomic, internal, and external data. Demand Planning closely collaborates with Brand Marketing, Business Units, Finance and Supply. The demand plan is used for manufacturing, financial planning, and business performance.

**Play your part in our team succeeding**

The role of the Demand Planning Manager is to develop the most accurate long-term demand plan for specific themes and supporting the S&OP process in the Americas region. Additional responsibilities include doing analytics, and coordinating and driving continuous improvement.

The main challenges are (1) using empirical data to vet key assumptions and insights, (2) developing structured and effective working relationships with key stakeholders throughout the LEGO organizations, (3) engaging in a fast moving business and (4) developing the most accurate demand plan for specific themes and BUs.

**Core Responsibilities:**

+ Develop long-term demand plan by theme by month for Americas region with high degree of fidelity.

+ Responsible for the development of annual plans and identifying and communicating gaps to target for business teams to action.

+ Influence and drive collaboration across various departments (e.g. Americas marketing, BU sales and Regional finance) and address input gaps as identified by forecast error review.

+ Participate and support S&OP meetings to proactively challenge forecast assumptions, articulate regionally created statistical inputs and insights to the demand plan, and do post meeting adhoc analysis

+ Identify gaps to key performance metrics, determine methods and drive actions to address.

**Do you have what it takes?**

+ Bachelor’s degree in business or related field or commensurate experience

+ Knowledge of demand planning or forecasting principles

+ 5+ years of planning or data science experience

+ Demonstrated ability with visualization software, specifically using Tableau or BI

+ Excellent communication and collaboration skills

+ Highly analytical and motivated

+ Attention to detail

+ Consistently demonstrates individual and team leadership behaviors.

+ Self-motivated and highly organized.

+ High degree of curiosity and proven ability to deal with ambiguity.

+ **Boston office based position; minimum commutable days to office is 3 days per week.**

**The salary for this position has a range of** **97,494 to 146,242** **annual based on anticipated responsibilities, market benchmarks, and organizational constraints. The definitive compensation may vary in alignment with the selected candidate’s professional background, experience, operational needs and other considerations permitted by law. The comprehensive remuneration details, inclusive of benefits, will be communicated upon finalization of the employment offer.**

**Join the global LEGO** **®** **family**

What’s in it for you? Here are some of what to expect:

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.

Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based

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, you’ll be rewarded through our global bonus scheme.

Your workplace – Our offices will be your primary workplace with flexibility to work from home during your working week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of our hybrid work model, role eligibility and frequency with you.

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 proud to be an equal opportunity and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”

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.

**Build your career brick by brick at the LEGO Group.**

We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.

Online Application Accessibility Statement; which is intended for those with disabilities - LEGO systems endeavors to make www.LEGO.com/jobs accessible to any and all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our web site or need assistance completing the application process, please contact the HR Service Desk at 1.860.394.3769. Please note, these communication channels should be used for those having difficulty accessing our on-line channels, not to inquire about job opportunities.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

**What’s in it for you?**

Here are some of what to expect:

**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 you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based

**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

**Your 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.

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, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team.

Research shows that women and people from different minority backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. If you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”

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.

We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.

Online Application Accessibility Statement; which is intended forpeople with disabilities- LEGO systems endeavors to make www.LEGO.com/jobs accessible to any and all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our web site or need assistance completing the application process, please contact the HR Service Desk at 1.860-763-7777, option #3. Please note, these communication channels should be used for those having difficulty accessing our on-line channels, not to inquire about job opportunities.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

**Join the LEGO® team today.**