You’ve built experience, now use it where bold ideas meet real impact. At Opella, we’re challenging how self-care works for millions of people and need leaders and experts ready to shape what’s next. As an experienced Demand Planner, you’ll bring your skill, your curiosity and your drive to make health simpler, smarter and more human.
The Demand Planner is responsible for leading all forecasting activities across customers and products within the Consumer Healthcare business unit.
This role owns the development of a robust, data-driven demand plan and facilitates cross-functional alignment to deliver a single, consensus forecast as part of the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process.
Translates market insights into an unconstrained demand forecast, identifies risks and opportunities, and drives alignment with commercial, finance and supply stakeholders to support business decision making.
This role supports both Australia and New Zealand markets.
- Develop and manage monthly demand forecasts at SKU / DFU level in collaboration with Commercial teams
- Own the creation of the unconstrained demand forecast, incorporating historical trends, market intelligence and promotional plans
- Facilitate Demand Review discussions to drive cross-functional alignment and achieve a consensus demand plan
- Reconcile forecasting systems and ensure alignment across all relevant data sources
- Translate demand signals into clear inputs for supply planning and IBP decision making
- Conduct monthly performance reviews, including forecast versus actual analysis, and lead root cause analysis to improve forecast accuracy
- Identify and communicate risks and opportunities, including gaps versus budget and financial targets
- Provide timely and accurate inputs into IBP forums, including Portfolio Management Review and Demand Review
- Act as the key interface between Market and Supply for new product launches, line extensions and product lifecycle changes
- Ensure demand assumptions are clearly defined, aligned and reflected in the forecast
- Coordinate launch readiness, including demand phasing and first supply alignment
- Identify risks to launch timelines, supply availability or service levels and drive mitigation actions
- Ensure portfolio changes, including launches, switches and phase-in or phase-out activities, are accurately reflected in planning systems
- Monitor and improve forecast performance metrics such as forecast accuracy and bias
- Provide data-driven insights to support business decisions and financial planning processes
- Identify opportunities to improve demand planning processes, systems and ways of working
- Participate in and lead cross-functional projects as required
- Ensure alignment between demand plans, financial outlooks and operational constraints
- Maintain forecasting systems with high levels of accuracy and data integrity
- Ensure timely updates of actuals, master data, forecast inputs and product lifecycle changes
- Own data quality within demand planning systems to support reliable reporting and decision making
- Commercial and Sales Teams
- Finance
- Supply Planning and Operations
- Marketing and Brand Teams
- Forecast accuracy and bias performance
- Quality and timeliness of IBP submissions
- Alignment between demand plan, supply plan and financial targets
- Effective identification and management of risks and opportunities
- Continuous improvement of planning processes and data quality
This is more than the next step in your career, it’s a chance to lead change and help reinvent self-care for the world. If you’re ready to challenge, inspire and deliver impact that matters, we’re ready for you. We are challengers. We are Opella.
Opella is the self-care challenger with the purest and third-largest portfolio in the Over The Counter (OTC) & Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) market globally.
Our mission is to bring health in people’s hands by making self-care as simple as it should be. For half a billion consumers worldwide – and counting.
At the core of this mission is our 100 loved brands, our 11,000-strong global team, our 13 best-in-class manufacturing sites and 4 specialized science and innovation development centers. Headquartered in France, Opella is the proud maker of many of the world’s most loved brands, including Allegra, Buscopan , Doliprane ,Dulcolax, Enterogermina , Essentiale and Mucosolvan .
As a globally certified B Corp company, we are active players in the journey towards healthier people and planet . Find out more about our mission at www.opella.com .
