Senior Analyst, Demand Planning, Consumer Products Division, L'Oreal Operations

Job TitleSenior Analyst - Demand Planning 

Division: Consumer Products Division

Location: New York

Reports To: Director – Demand Planning

Who We Are: 

For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted its energy, innovation, and scientific excellence solely to one business: Beauty. Our goal is to offer each and every person around the world the best of beautyin terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity and responsibility to satisfy all beauty needs and desires in their infinite diversity. 

At L'Oréal Operations, we create innovative, inclusive, and sustainable beauty together with our business partners by designing, developing, sourcing, manufacturing, and distributing over 6 billion products globally every year. We support over 36 brands across four L’Oréal divisions. We are consumer-oriented, and we act responsibly all along the value chain. 

What You Will Do:

• Develop accurate and timely demand forecast while reducing inventory/working capital, and minimizing forecast variability.
• Partner with cross-functional teams (Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Customer Planning) to gather inputs to build the consensus demand plan through the S&OP process.
• Work closely with the supply planning team to understand and resolve known supply constraints or excess inventory risks and communicate to commercial teams in the S&OP demand review.
• Work with the business on action plans to help in the excess/obsolete reduction and align to the L’Oréal for the future goal of zero destruction.
• Ensure consistency of forecast assumptions across the business unit, including base business trends, promotional plans, new launch volumes, planogram changes & seasonal volume.
• Ensure alignment of Demand Forecast with Sales Estimate and/or provide reconciliation and analysis of variance.
• Focus on accuracy of demand plan for new product launches, based on accurate analysis of distribution builds and velocity/share expectations.
• Analyze historical sales data and future plans. Work cross-functionality and proactively monitor forecast error/accuracy including root cause analysis to achieve continuous improvement in demand forecast accuracy.
• Prepare written analyses, documentation, reports or other data.

What We Are Looking For:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree required in Supply Chain or related business field
• 2+ years Forecasting/Planning or related Analytical experience
• Excellent Communication skills
• Proficient in Excel, Microsoft Office
• Future Master & SAP a plus
• Technical / Professional
• SAP- Analyzer
• Future Master /forecasting tools
• Data mining
• Microsoft suite applications with emphasis in Excel (intermediate/advanced level)
• Basic knowledge of Sales & Operations Planning procedures
• Authorization to work in the United States on a full-time, permanent, ongoing basis is required. No immigration support/sponsorship offered for this role.
• Being present in the office three days a week is considered an essential function of all office-based roles for eligible full-time employees.

What’s In It For You:

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Don’t meet every single requirement? At L'Oréal, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and innovative workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the qualifications listed in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways! You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!

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