Business Planner - Professional Products Division
 
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We believe your career should spark the same thrill and curiosity as your personal interests. Creativity drives everything we do, turning ideas into meaningful impact. With opportunities across brands, markets, and divisions, your growth knows no boundaries. Intrigued? Keep reading, this might be the opportunity you've been searching for.

A Day in the Life

As our Business Planner, you will be the key player in our commercial forecast process, ensuring its accuracy and quality. You will collaborate closely with Key Account Managers, Channel Heads, Demand Planning, and Sales Controlling to build a multi-channel and multi-brand vision, becoming the ambassador for the commercial forecast within the organization.

Here's how you’ll leave your mark:

• Forecast Construction & Consolidation: Support sales teams in building reliable forecasts, consolidate data for a comprehensive overview, and ensure the quality of the commercial forecast across all online and offline channels.
• Analysis & Optimization: Monitor sales performance against forecasts, anticipate risks and opportunities, and challenge promotional and launch plans to optimize inventory and align with investments.
• Strategic Insights: Compare sell-in and sell-out data to analyze market trends, monitor channel stock-in-trade, and ensure sustainable growth.
• Multifunctional Collaboration: Act as the main point of contact for the commercial forecast, working with Demand Planning, Finance, and Marketing to drive alignment and integrate business planning processes.

We Are Looking For

Someone who can bring a customer-centric perspective to analysis and isn't afraid to constructively challenge the status quo. You are a dynamic and proactive leader, able to inspire multifunctional teams and build alignment across the business.

To be successful in this role, you should have:

• A Master's degree in Economics, Management Engineering or similar fields.
• Previous experience in an analytical role (e.g., Sales Analyst, Demand Planner, Controller), ideally within the FMCG or Beauty sector.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to manage complex data; strong proficiency in Excel is a must.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with a talent for collaboration.
• Fluency in both English and Italian.

What’s In It For You

• A place for you to leave your comfort zone and grow beyond your potential (here, you’ll be encouraged to try new things and take risks!)
• Real responsibility from day 1, there’s no sitting on the sidelines at L’Oréal
• An environment where people of every ethnicity, social background, age, religion, gender and sexual orientation as well as people with disabilities are accepted, can speak up, will thrive and are celebrated!
• A place where you can contribute to something bigger! Many of our brands have societal /environmental causes to make concrete difference

Who We Are L’Oréal is present in 150 markets on five continents. For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted itself solely to ‘Create beauty that moves the world’; it is now the industry world leader with €42 billion consolidated sales. Together, we solve complex challenges at scale, while making sure we stay committed to making the world a more inclusive and a better place for everyone & our planet.

Our daring Operations team of thousands of exceptional minds don’t just work on complex challenges; They help create sustainable and inclusive beauty alongside our partners by crafting, innovating, sourcing, producing, and delivering millions of products and services that touch every corner of the globe.

We’re committed to guaranteeing inclusive recruitment processes and to advocating for hiring and promoting each candidate in an ethical and equitable way. The Group strictly prohibits discrimination against any applicant for employment because of the individual’s gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, visible and/or invisible disabilities, socio-economic and/or multicultural origins, health conditions, age, religion, or any other characteristics protected by law.