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Demand Planning Lead – Europe
CHEP helps move more goods to more people in more places than any other organisation on Earth via 347 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ approximately 13,000 people and operate in 60 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world’s biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact.
What This Means for You
You’ll join an international organisation big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You’ll help reshape how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. You’ll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work while surrounded by diverse and driven professionals, with flexibility through our Hybrid Work Model.
Job Description
We’re looking for a strategic, data-driven leader to drive Demand Planning across Europe, orchestrating a complex, multi-country environment and shaping the future of demand-led decision-making at scale.
This is a high-impact role responsible for creating a single, forward-looking and fact-based demand view across Europe, enabling aligned commercial, supply chain, and financial decisions while accelerating transformation through data, analytics, and planning excellence.
Reporting into senior leadership, you will act as a key business partner across Commercial, Supply Chain, and Finance, connecting stakeholders and driving standardisation, governance, and performance across the end-to-end planning cycle.
What You’ll Lead & Deliver
- Define and execute the European Demand Planning strategy, aligned to business growth and performance objectives
- Own and orchestrate the single source of truth for demand across Europe, proactively highlighting risks, opportunities, and trade-offs
- Drive end-to-end demand performance, improving forecast accuracy, reducing bias, and enabling better decision-making
- Lead scenario planning and demand-led decision support, stress-testing assumptions in a dynamic market environment
- Establish and embed standardised S&OP / S&OE (Sales & Operations Planning / Execution) processes, governance, and ways of working across multiple countries
- Accelerate data-driven planning excellence, leveraging tools, analytics, and market insights
- Facilitate and own the European Demand Review, ensuring alignment across issues, collections, and commercial outlook
- Act as the end-to-end connector, influencing stakeholders across Commercial, Retail, Supply Chain, and Finance
- Build and develop demand planning capability, strengthening skills, accountability, and mindset across teams
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Scope & Impact
- Pan-European scope across multiple countries and markets
- Leadership of a team of ~9 FTEs
- Direct impact on revenue, margin, service levels, and asset productivity
- Ownership of forecast accuracy, bias reduction, and demand planning effectiveness
What You’ll Bring
Experience
- Leading or embedding S&OP / S&OE governance, including demand review forums and decision-making cadences
- Driving business performance through planning
- Aligning Commercial, Supply Chain, and Finance around a single set of numbers
- Background in FMCG, logistics, or complex operational environments preferred
- Track record in scenario planning, trade-offs, and decision support
- Experience influencing senior stakeholders in a matrix organisation
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Skills
- Business acumen: Challenges assumptions and turns data into actionable insights
- Analytical & storytelling: Ability to simplify complexity and create clear narratives
- Performance mindset: Focuses on outcomes, not process compliance
- Stakeholder influence: Drives alignment across functions without authority
- Decision-making under uncertainty: Uses scenarios to guide actions in volatile environments
Remote Work
- Hybrid Remote
Essential Skills to Succeed
- Coaching
- Cross-Functional Work
- Demand Planning
- Disruptive Thinking
- Emotional Intelligence
- Feedback
- Inclusive Leadership
- Influencing
- Leading Change
- Leading Customer-Centric Teams
- Mentorship
- Prioritisation
- Process Improvements
- Project Delivery
- Strategic Planning
- Strategic Thinking
Diversity & Inclusion
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to developing a diverse workforce in which everyone is treated fairly with respect, and has the opportunity to realise their potential.
We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on:
- Race
- Colour
- Sex
- Age
- National origin
- Religion
- Sexual orientation
- Gender identity
- Status as a veteran
- Disability
- Any other federal, state, or local protected class
Important Note: If any recruit or interviewer requests payment as a condition of consideration, please do not proceed. If you have any doubts about an interview or job offer, contact recruitment@brambles.com.
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