Manager Group Demand Planning (m/f/d)
Date: May 19, 2025
Location: Darmstadt, DE
Company: Döhler Group
Reference ID: 42046
Are you interested in high-quality, natural, and tasty nutrition?
We are! It’s our ambition to shape the future of nutrition.
Döhler is a leading global producer of natural ingredients and solutions for the food, beverage, lifestyle and nutrition industries. We use innovative technology to process plant-based raw materials and enrich products such as lifestyle drinks, cereals, dairy, and confectionery goods for almost every well-known brand. Close to 10.000 dedicated employees in more than 70 countries share one common goal - to ensure that millions of people around the world enjoy the products created by us.
We strive to inspire and empower our employees in everything we do, and we invite you to join our team – together WE BRING IDEAS TO LIFE.
Your Role
- Maintain and improve statistical demand forecasts with input from markets and customers
- Enhance overall demand planning for your assigned portfolio
- Support the definition and implementation of the appropriate make-to strategy
- Critically assess business forecasts and engage with stakeholders
- Analyze and optimize forecast accuracy and consumption
- Collaborate across teams on lifecycle management, scenario planning, and S&OP topics
- Integrate new customers, materials, and flows into the IBP system
- Drive customer collaboration for long-term forecast visibility and planning stability
Your Profile
- 3–5 years of experience in demand planning for a territory or region
- Strong expertise in demand forecasting and planning methodologies
- Proven ability to apply market knowledge and analytical skills (e.g., forecasting, statistics, trend analysis)
- A strong team player with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build effective working relationships
- Analytical mindset with a customer-oriented approac
- Fluent in English, both written and spoken, with the ability to communicate clearly across diverse international stakeholders
- Demonstrated experience working in cross-functional and multicultural teams across different regions
Your Benefits
- Culture: Friendly and informal atmosphere, family-owned company, flat hierarchies, short communication channels, and helpful colleagues
- Impact: You are an integral part of our business success and make an important contribution to the future of nutrition
- Empowerment: You can fully unleash your potential and have the opportunity to take on responsibilities
- Digitalization: We maintain excellent partnerships with market-leading innovators, allowing you to access and work with state-of-the-art technologies
- Anniversary and special payments
- Employee referral bonuses
- Additional benefits: Christmas parties, events, financial benefits, and online shop discounts (e.g., IT leasing, mobile phone contracts, shopping, and travel discounts, etc.)
Equal opportunities for all
We welcome applicants, who are just as diverse as we are - regardless of age, ancestry, disability, ethnic origin, gender, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, social background or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
Become a part of our team and apply online trough our career portal to the attention of Valerie Krämer. Please note that we are unable to consider or return application documents sent by mail.