Demand Planner

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Avaron helps you find assignments that match your skills and ambitions. As a permanently employed consultant with us, you get competitive terms – combined with the variety and growth that a consulting career offers. About the Assignment This assignment is for you who want to take ownership of demand planning in a global, product-driven environment where accurate forecasting makes a real business difference. You will work across functions and regions, connecting sales expectations, product life cycle decisions, and planning assumptions into one clear and reliable demand forecast. You will play a key role in improving how demand is validated, challenged, and translated into decisions on availability, inventory, and priorities. The role combines analytical depth with broad stakeholder interaction, and gives you the chance to influence both forecasting quality and the way the planning organization works. It is an exciting opportunity if you enjoy turning data and dialogue into better decisions in a complex supply chain setting. Job DescriptionYou will lead the end-to-end demand planning process, from statistical forecasting to validation and delivery of a complete unconstrained demand forecast. You will work closely with sales, product management, production, purchasing, and other stakeholders to align planning inputs and create a clear demand picture. You will challenge expectation-based inputs in a constructive way and help ensure that forecast assumptions are realistic and well grounded. You will integrate product life cycle considerations such as phase-in and phase-out into the forecast together with relevant stakeholders. You will connect demand insights with risks, opportunities, and planning assumptions, and build scenarios that support informed decision-making. You will analyze trends, identify root causes, and drive corrective actions linked to forecasting performance and KPI management. You will support communication around demand performance