Demand & Supply Planner

Who we are:

Samsonite is the worldwide leader in superior travel bags, luggage, and accessories combining notable style with the latest design technology and the utmost attention to quality and durability.

For more than 100 years, Samsonite has leveraged its rich heritage to create unparalleled products that fulfill the travel lifestyle needs of conscious movers everywhere.

With a portfolio of brands including Samsonite, Tumi, American Tourister, High Sierra, Gregory, eBags, Hartmann, and Lipault Paris, our products are sold in over 100 countries in North America, Asia, Europe and Latin America through our company-operated retail store, websites and a variety of retail partners.

Key Responsibilities

Demand planning:

• Captures historical info and establishes sales forecasts at European level for a group of assigned products.
• Carries out thorough detailed analysis of market dynamics, category shares and sales forecasts.
• Works closely with the Marketing Manager and constantly advises on product opportunities, potentiality and distribution
• Constantly develops and updates forecasting models at the light of new market trends and dynamics.
• Carefully calculates the impact on sales should a key account list or delist a product or product range.
• Continuously collects and consolidates forecast information issued from different departments.
• Follow up of sales contracts with the sales offices.

Product planning:

• Translate the demand plan to purchase orders towards our Vendors.
• Follow up closely that requested delivery dates are respected.
• Create and follow up special volume orders.
• Create and maintain good relationship with Vendors through close follow up and make them aware that you have control.

Reporting:

• Produces very professional material for the consensus meetings.
• Evaluation report (delivery performance report) of the Vendors.

Product administration in SAP:

• Follows up on the SKU status. Continuously updates product status in SAP based on products lifecycles.
• Creates preselling and phase in/out seasons in SAP.
• Ensures that market by market introductions are processed very accurately in SAP and that a delivery date is assigned to each country.

Support of European Sales Offices:

• Responsible for specials and volume requests belonging to the assigned categories. Checks lead times together with Supply Chain.
• Confirms lead time to sales office.
• Processes accurate orders in SAP.
• Reports contracts and open order status.
• Downloads lists from SAP and generates accurate and timely open sales orders reports.

Applicants should ideally

• Possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Possess outstanding analytical skills.
• Continuously pay strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Have excellent organisational skills.
• Be proactive and show problemsolving skills.
• Show the ability to perform well under pressure in a deadlinedriven environment.
• Demonstrate the ability to adapt to a multicultural environment.
• Demonstrate the ability to adapt to a changing environment.
• Possess excellent knowledge of English.
• Have advanced Excel capabilities

Offer

Next to this challenging role in an excellent team, we also offer a very attractive compensation package, including an excellent pension scheme, a competitive group insurance, lunch vouchers and extra holidays.

We offer you a fixed contract of 10 months to start with.
Travel is one of life's greatest life experiences. Are you ready to travel with us?

Why you'll love working here:

• Our employees matter. As a peoplefocused business, we work hard to provide meaningful rewards and development opportunities for our employees, recognizing performance, and creating a supportive working environment for them, wherever they are based.
• Vibrant culture. We are committed to a diverse and rich culture, welcoming people from all walks of life. Our longstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion empowers us to bring our authentic selves and unique differences to work every day.
• Socially responsible. We want to minimize our products' impact on the environment and help create positive journeys worldwide. We do this by creating the best products using the most sustainable and innovative materials, methods, and models.

What we value:

At Samsonite, we do more than create the bags that move with our consumer, we inspire and celebrate the moments that move them.

We believe we have a responsibility to the world in how we operate, the products we sell, the communities where we live and work, and how we treat the people we employ.

We're as diverse as travel itself, and like travel, your journey with Samsonite presents the opportunity to be a part of something bigger and explore your passions.

This is why we offer various paths for professionals and celebrate the knowledge and skills they bring to our team.

We are committed to a respectful workplace that allows our team members to bring the

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